882 BENGAL PLANTS. [Basella, 
1725. BaseLba RuBRA Linn.; F. B.I. v. 20. B. alba F. I. ii. 104; 
EK. D. B. 2038. 
In all the provinces, cultivated or wild. 
glabrous, much-branched, twining fleshy herb. 
Vernac, Poi, ban-poi 
Order CIY. PHYTOLACCACEZ. 
Trees, shrubs, or herbs. Leaves alternate, entire ; stipules 0 or 
sal or eden to tubercles. Flowers ee “ 1-sexual, 
sually racemose, rarely axillary, racemes terminal and axillary; 
ew and 2 bracteoles generally present. Peek eer her- 
baceous or coriaceous, rarely membranous or coloured, 4-5-partite, 
rarely obconic or discoid ; segments Ages equal or une qual, 
i , rarely more, alternate 
a 
deeiibiioies ke 2-locular; dehiscence anterior, posterior oF 
ateral. Disk hypogynous, shold or annular. Carpels 1 oF 
more, free or connate, superior; ovules solitary in each carpel, 
amphitropous or campylotropous; stigmas usually sessile, re 
curved. Fruit of a solitary, nee crustaceous, fleshy 0 
samaroid carpel, or of several distinct or connate carpels, and bat 
1: locular or several-locular, each cell ecu Seeds erect, often 
ate; albumen fleshy or floury ; embryo peripheric. 
786. Rivina Linn. 
Herbs, woody below, with sulcate branches; leaves alternate, 
petioled ; stipules minute, caducous. Flowers hermap hrodite, in 
axillary, rarely terminal, slender, many- oo racemes; pedice 
sle i bracts subulate ; bracteoles cadu Perianth corol- 
, 4-partite ; segments subequal, obovate- stdin obtuse, si 
frui 
rs 
dehiscing in front. Disk small, hypogynous. Carpel solitary: — 
subglobose, compressed; ovule solitary, sessile, amphitropousi 
style subterminal, short, curved ; stigma capitellate. Frwit inde — 
hiscent, compressed, subglobose; pericarp fleshy, adnate to seed. 
Seed erect, lenticular; testa crustaceous, arillus minute; embryo — 
