896 BENGAL PLANTS. 
sometimes 0. Perianth inferior or occasionally somewhat adnate 
to the ovary ; tube short, sometimes enlarging in fruit; lobes of 
limb usually 6, rarely 4, 2-seriate ; lobes of each series imbricate, 
rarely subvalvate, all similar, small, herbaceous or petaloid and 
equal, or the outer Sages egaallen, very rarely larger than * 
inner, occasionally one or more lobes abortive, or one or mor 
additional lobes a, Stamens usually a multiple of the 
perianth-lobes in 2-4 series on the tube; filaments flattened, inner 
or some or a the filaments often 2-glandular at the base ; anthers 
erect, 2-celled or 4-celled; cells dehiscing by recurving, at length 
Cc 
deciduous, valvular flaps. arpels forming a sessile, 1-celled 
ovary at the base of the perianth-tube ; ovule solitary, gan 
pendulous from apex of cell; style terminal; sti imple or 
ae 
discoid or dilated. Frwit a dry or fleshy berry, tasted on the 
often thickened peduncle, naked or rarely enclosed in or adnate to 
the perianth-tube. Seed pendulous ; testa membranous ; albumen 
0; cotyledons plano-convex, fleshy ; radicle minute, superior. 
*Shrubs or trees ; inflorescence lax :—[p. 897] 
Anthers of the two outermost rows opening inwards, of the third row 
opening outwards by valves; flowers hermaphrodite :— 
Anthers all 2-celled :— 
Perianth-tube persistent, enclosing the fruit, its lobes 6, subequal 
Cryptocary4- 
Perianth- ben age deciduou 
Perianth-lobes 5, subequal ; cto not thickened 1 in fruit ; 
eae ovate or cordate iedia. 
Perianth-lobes 6, the 3 outer much the shorter; a much 
enlarged in fruit; staminodes minute or absent ...... Dehaasia- 
pee all 4-celled :— 
Perianth in fruit with deciduous lobes, but wholly or ages persis- 
tent tube, if lobes persistent the leaves opposite and 3-nerved from 
the b in 
Pesenth in fruit altogether persistent; leaves ict and 
penninerved :— 
Lobes perianth reflexed in fruit eye’ 
Phe 
Anthers of all the rows opening inwards by valves, 4-celled ; flowers 
dicecious :-— 
Flowers clustered, enclosed in densely imbricating bracts 
Acti 
Flowers umbellate, the umbels involucrate 
odaphne: 
Litsea 
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