BENGAL PLANTS. 
dicecious; males in long axillary racemes, 
females 1-2 on a long axillary peduncle 
eidion. 
Styles entire, short or long; flowers usually 
dicecious, in axillary racemes or brane 
rae aces many, clustered, females soli- 
tary or few under each bract ; bracts often large 
acar 
*Filaments connate in bundles or branched ; disk 0; 
fruit sr oe ar :—([p. 
Flowers dicecious, male and female in axillary or 
infra- anes spikes ; shrubs with lanceolate, penni- 
nerved leaves; seed with a thin, fleshy coat 
Homonia. 
Flowers moncecio in minal, alee 
racemes, upper rere pesca: lower female; 
like, annual herbs, with palmate, serra wee 
ith a firm ¢ “ Ricinus. 
Perec eee 
§Styles connate; twining herbs with alternate leaves; — 
racemes always axillary, androgynous ; stamens always 
l-seriate; disk 0 or obscure; fruit always capsular :— 
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Styles connate below, ee ight male calyx 3-5- 
artite ; stamens 1-3; s with a firm coat... Tragia 
Styles united below in a agar hy clan, incurved 
above; male calyx 3-partite ; stamens 3; seeds with 4 
fleshy coat Cacmntll 
panes of mate sna sings in bud; Sd entire, free oF 
Sidi: siiiaebin or erect hierbs ; leaves altace iss 
Trees or shrubs; stamens 3; filaments free 
Calyx 2-8-lobed ; ie moecious, in terminal, 
‘a 
females solitary in bract; females in lower P® 
of spike or in iensani spikes ; fruit fleshy or pulpy 
Sapium- 
ody 
cay aaa 3-partite ; flowers in lateral axillary * 
rminal, spic see unisexual (dicecious or moneecious) — 
or nicola ogynous racemes or spikes ; males 1-3 in ea 
bract, cheaisieans females at the sg of raceme | Of 
in separate racemes ; fruit crustaceous...... Exc 
Herbs; stamens 2-4; filaments bane at the base; a 
1-seriate ; fers: 
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