864 BENGAL: PLANTS, [Bougainvillea. 
1688. BoUGAINVILLEA SPECTABILIS Willd. 
In gardens of European residents, common 
A large, climbing shrub, with axillary, iented spines ; 
native of Brazil. 
1688/2. Var. LATERITIA Hort. 
In gardens of European residents, rare. 
A large, climbing shrub, with axillary, recurved spines ; 
native of Brazil. 
765. Pisonia Linn. 
Trees or shrubs, unarmed or with axillary spines; leaves oppo- 
site or alternate, sessile or petioled, entire. Flowers small, 
dicecious, rarely moncecious or hermaphrodite, in panicled sub- 
sessile or peduncled cymes; bracteoles 2-3, not involucrate. 
5-toothed ; Dak induplieate-valvate, erect or spreading. 
Stamens 6-10, exserted; filaments unequal or oe ove 
and longer, liom, connate below in a tube ring; anthe 
erty or didym ¢ Perianth me diecatly eel ied at the 
Ovary ahi ongatba ovoid, sessile; ovule solitary; style 
denale, included or exserted ; ifigttin capitellate, peltate, or 
fimbriate. Fruit enclosed in the coriaceous or hardened, oblong, 
linear or clavate perianth-base, cylindric, compressed or 5-angled, 
with 5 viscid ribs or with 5 rows of viscid, stipitate glands ; utricle 
elongated, membranous. Seed with a hyaline testa adnate to the 
pericarp ; embryo straight ; albumen scanty, gelatinous. 
1689. Prsonta acuLeata Linn.; F. I. ii. 217; F. B. I. iv. 711; 
E. D. P. 824. 
rissa. 
A large climbing shrub, with axillary, recurved spines. 
Beng. Baghachura ; Uriya Hati-ankisa. 
Order CII. AMARANTACE. 
Herbs, rarely undershrubs, erect or with climbing ee 
Leaves opposite or alternate; stipules 0. Flowers — 
maphrodite, ica polygamous or dicecious, small, ag in 
terminal, simple or panicled spikes cymes or Sauaunlty para 
flowers of a fascicle sometimes deformed; bracts hyaline oF 
