926 BENGAL PLANTS. [Bischofia. 
843. Bischofia BI. 
A large tree ; leaves alternate, 3-foliolate ; leaflets often crenate. . 
Flowers minute, dicecious, in axillary or lateral panicled racemes; | 
5, concave, aaa ea hooded over the anthers. Petals 0. 
Disk 0. Stamens 5; filaments short; anthers large ; cells parallel. 
Pistillode sor broad. 9? wes epals 5, ovate, caducous. St ami- 
nodes 5, sm r obsolete. Carpels connate in an exserted, 3-4- 
celled ovary; pee 2 in each cell; styles long, linear, stout, 
entire, stigmatic throughout en inner face. Fruit a globose, 
fleshy yi ells lined with a parchment-like, 2- valved 
endocarp. Seeds turgidly oblong; testa crustaceous; albumen 
fleshy ; cotyledons ae flat; radicle straight, elongate. 
1829. BiscHorta savantca BL; BP. ‘&B. I. v. 8345; BE. D. B. 520. 
ms ded ad bilo I. iii, 728. 
N. , Duars; Chota Rue ; in other provinces 
nie plan tod: 
A medium tree, ae feet high. Hund. Kein. ; 
814. Bridelia Willd. 
Shrubs or trees; leaves alternate, quite entire, sometimes 
strong, straight nerves, and prominent cross veins. lower’ 
monecious or diccious, all i i 
mer 
5, short, s alee, stalked or i oe blake, Disk broad, bai 
or adnate to calyx-tube. Stamens 5; filaments connate below ™ 
a column which bears a terminal pistillode, free and spre adin 
above ; anther-cells 2, parallel. ° few or solitary. Caly2- oe 
ments narrower than in ¢. Disk double, the inner fore 
membranous, central, truncate cone, often enclosing the you 
ovary. Carpels connate in a 2-celled, rarely 3-celled, slabroo 
ovary; ovules 2 in each cell; styles free or shortly united below: 
forked or subentire. F'rwit a small drupe with 1-2 usually single 
seeded cocci or pyrenes. Seed with usually fleshy, sometimes 
membranous albumen; cotyledons thin or fleshy. 
*Flowers dicecious ; leaves deciduous, coriaceous, elliptic, — ovate OF 
obovate, rounded or obtuse, margin fai crenulate, en . lo ong +; : 
nerves 15-20 pairs, strong, straight, parallel; calyx in f ait “hardly 
altered ; drupe pisiform ; erect trees :—{p. 927] 
