918 BENGAL PLANTS. 
©Flowers in androgynous spikes or racemes; stamens inflexed in — 
bud with anthers reversed, many, inserted on the hairy receptacle; 
frui 
Yt ; 
+ dry, capsular, each carpel 2-valved ; leaves penninerved or — 
3- or more-nerved from the base; trees or shrubs, flowers 
moneecious [p. ... Croton. 
4] Flowers in axillary clusters, ee racemes or panicles, or if ter- 
minal then with disk absent at least from male flower, and usually 
from both, with (Mallotus ss pa , Ricinus) the stamens indefinite, 
central, or (Exceecaria sometimes, Sapiwn, Sebastiania) with stamens 
a 
-seriate ;— 
Petals — in male flower ; filaments straight; ovary 3-celled ; 
fruit capsu 
Sepals iain, disk eaten in both sexes; stamens 15-30, 
free ; hens or trees; flowers moneecious, in usually 1- — ou 
racemes, rarely a female at ri of male raceme ; males 
wineiioa tera ORRDGE GY) ae See as | lance en Ulead el endees 
Sepals valvate; disk in male obscure ; ; stamens 5-15, connate 
below ; eeae herbs; flowers monecious; males ¢ rowded in 
upper part of raceme, females woliary, saad 
Chrozophora. 
Petals none in either sex :— 
Sepals imbricate, 4-6, fr 
Flowers in both sexes in eames clusters ; dicecious, erect 
trees or large s iS — 
Stamens 10-60 ded in centre of fi ; filaments 
filiform: disk Chics pistillode 0; capsule thickly leathery 
Gelonium- 
Stamens 5-20, combined below in a slender column round 
a long pistillode; disk prominent; capsule ps endocatP 
woody heetocarp 
Flowers in both sexes in clusters on numerous axil 
Ee 
Pati pistillode 0; disk present ; capsule dry, crustaceous 
Baliospermum. 
Sepals or calyx-segments valvate, or, occasionally, calyx ae 
lete; flowers in axillary, rarely terminal spikes, racemes, © 
panicles :— 
Calyx in male flower unequally 4-toothed, in female 5- toothed, 
dicee 
closed in bud ; trees, dicecious ; flowers small, in long, — : 
spikes or vant: all axillary; males clustered, females 5¢ 
