“952 BENGAL PLANTS. Ricinus. 
serrate. Flowers monecious, large, in terminal, subpaniculate 
racemes; perianth simple; males higher up, crowded, females 
below. ¢ Sepals connate in a membranous calyx, splitting into 
3-5 valvate segments. Petals 0. Disk 0. Stamens very many; 
filaments connate and repeatedly branched; anthers with distinct, 
distant, subglobose, divergent cells. Pistillode 0. ¢ Sepals con- 
nate in a spathaceous, caducous calyx. Petals 0. Disk 0. Car- 
pels connate in a 8-celled ovary ; ovules solitary in each cell ; styles 
short or long, spreading, often very large, entire, 2-fid or 2-partite, 
penicillate or papillose. Frwit a capsule of three 2- valved cocci. 
Seeds oblong; testa crustaceous; albumen fleshy; cotyledons 
broad, flat. 
1899, Ricinus communts Linn.; F. I. iii. 689; F. B. 1. v. 4573 
E. D. R. 869. 
In fields, native gardens, and village thickets every 
where. 
An ce oa bush or small tree. Beng. mane ; 
Uriya Gab; Hind. Arend; Santal. Erad The 
Castor. oil plant, apparently originally leas from 
846. Tragia Linn. 
Perennial, usually twining or climbing herbs, hispid with pungent 
hairs ; leaves ection simple or palmately 3-lobed, serrate, cot 
date and 3~5-ne at base. Flowers monecious, in terminal 
and leaf-opposed, endo racemes ; ES mguien simple; males 
Disk 0 or obscure. iccnasis 1-3, rarely many ; filaments free oF 
oO 
fid, ’ mbric 
pinnatifid, often enlarged hardened, aoa stellately spread g in 
fruit. Petals 0. Disk rpels connate in a 8-celled ovary: 
ovules solitary in ads ae fears connate in a column at bases 
free, spreading, entire above. Fruit a capsule of three 2-valved 
cocci; endocarp crustaceous. Seeds globose; testa erustaceous; 
segron fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat 
TRagra INvotucRaTA Linn. ; F. I, iii, 676; F. B.1. v. 4653 
E. D. T. 509. 
In most of the provinces. 
