540 BENGAL PLANTS. [Baccauirea. 
é Sepals 4-5, usually unequal, imbricate. Petals 0. Disk 0, or 
obscure, glandular. Stamens ; filaments short, free ; anthers 
small, didymous. Pistillode pubescent, orbicular, sessile or stipi- 
tate, rarely in an irregular cleft column. ¢ Sepals 4-6, linear or 
oblong, much larger than in males. Petals 0. Disk 0. Carpels 
connate in a 2-5-celled, ovoid or globose ovary; ovules 2 in each 
cell; stigmas 2-5, small, poe free or connate in a short style, 
each 2-lobed or 2-cleft, arms wide or narrow, papillose, rarely 
connate in one peltate ace Fruit a tardily dehiscent capsule, 
ovoid, globose, obovoid or fusiform, 2—4-celled ; pericarp thick or 
thin, coriaceous, crustaceous or woody. Seeds broad, usually 
orsally pi cteee or flattened; testa with a thick, fleshy 
covering ; albumen fleshy or hard; cotyledons broad, flat. 
1870. eae ae: sapIpA Muell.-Arg. ; F.B. I. v. 871; E. D. B.4. 
Pierardia sapida F. I. ii. 254. 
N. Bengal, Duars; E. Bengal; Tippera 
An evergreen tree, 40-50 feet high. Vernae, Latka. 
828. Manihot Adans. 
Tall herbs or shrubs, rarely trees; leaves alternate, petioled, 
entire or digitate ; segments entire or lobed, free or united. 
Flowers moneecious, in terminal or axillary, simple or somewhat 
paniculate, rather lax racemes, males short-pedicelled, females 
lower in the raceme, longer pedicelled; perianth simple; bracts 
ne or large iid leafy, entire or fimbriate. ¢ Sepals connate in 
usually coloured, campanulate or urceolate ae x, limb more or 
fess lobed ; lobes imbricate, conto rted. Petals 0. Disk glandular 
or lobed. Stamens 10, 2-seriate, attached between the disk-glands 
or lobes ; filaments free, slender ; anthers oblong; cells parallel, 
contiguous. Pistillode 0, or 3-fid. ¢ Sepals as in males. Petals 
0. Disk hypogynous, entire or glandular. Carpels connate in & 
3-celled ovary; ovule in each cell solitary; styles shortly connate 
below, spreading above, dilated or lobed. Fruit a capsule, sepa 
hs into three 2-valved cocci. Seeds ovoid or oblong; testa 
rustaceous; albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat. 
1871. Maninor uritissmma Pohl; F. B. I. v. 239; E. D. M. 216. 
. Bengal, Duars, cultivated in clearings. 
A tall, herbaceous plant with tuberous root ; native 
S. America. Cassava, Tapioca. 
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