782 BENGAL PLANTS. [Didymocarpus, 
r connate in pairs; sioenestine longitudinal. Disk annular or 
shortly cylindric or 0, occasionally unilateral. Carpels 2, connate 
in a 1-celled or fia aeleetly 2-celled oyary; ovules numerous, 
anatropous, on 2-fid, parietal, sometimes subconfluent placentas ; 
style linear; stigma capitate or 2-lobed. Fruit a 2-valved capsule 
or a berry. Seeds numerous, small, fusiform or ovoid, smooth, 
sometimes tipped with a long hair; albumen scanty or 0; embryo 
raight. 
Serre 2; fruit a capsule not overtopped by the calyx, dehiscing locu- 
licidal 
a linear or lanceolate; placentas deeply intruded, not bearing 
eds on their inner faces :— 
Capsule much exceeding the small calyx, 2-valved to the base; 
flowers racemose or subumbellate or solitary :— 
nA 
Stigma at length shortly 2-fid Chirita. 
base; flowers subcapitat 
Capsule ellipsoid or bien. hardly eee the calyx; ; placentas 
monn = on all sides ; flowers in 
ta: 
Stamens 4 
Calyx plieate fruit a capsule overtopped by the Galy; shri: 
irregularly ; disk 
Calyx not plicate ; fruit an indehiscent berry ; disk annular 
Rhynchotechum. 
672. Didymocarpus Wall. 
Stemless or erect herbs; leaves opposite, alternate, whorled or 
crowded. Flowers on axillary, many- or few-flowered peduncles ; 
pedicels cymose, subumbellate or subracemose in pairs; bracts 
rarely gre eer Sepals connate in a small, 5-fid or 5-partite 
calyx; lobes narrow. Petals 5, connate in a tubular pte tube 
cylindric or owe ; limb oblique or subsymmetric; lobes rounded. 
Stamens 2, anterior, perfect, with 2 or 3 rudimentary, rarely 4 per- 
fect, adnate to corolla-tube, included; anthers connate in pairs ; 
cells 2, soon confluent. isk cylindric or 0. Carpels connate in a 
arrow, sessile or stipitate, 1-celled ovary; placentas intruded and 
then recurved; o Ss many, close-set on argins ; style long 
2-lobed. Frwit a linear, rarely lanceolate, loculicidally 2-valved 
or subfollicular capsule, usually ultimately 2-valved or often 
