956. BENGAL PLANTS. 
Disk hypogynous, obscure, or 0. 3 Stamens as many as and 
opposite the perianth-lobes, sometimes adnate to their base, very 
rarely fewer or faite more; filaments free or rarely connate at 
base ; anthers ovate or oblong, basifixed or dorsifixed near base ; 
cells 2, distinct; ee longitudinal, aes lateral, or 
soem Pistillode small or 0. ¢ Staminodes very rare. Car- 
pels 2, one fertile, one sterile, connate in a superior, rarely inferior, 
lateral, or pendulous; testa membranous; albumen copious, scanty, 
0; embryo straight or curved. 
*Plants with watery juice :—[p. 957] 
Anthers in bud erect; style 2-fid; ovule pendulo 
Flowers usually 2-sexual or polygamous ; ao pee ney ; trees 
with penninerved leaves :— 
Fruit dry, wide- ka leaves deciduous; flowers appearing 
when branches are bar 
Leaves serrate ; aici campanulate ; cotyledons flat... Ulmus. 
Leaves entire; perianth cleft to the base; cotyledons folded 
Holoptelea. 
Fruit a drupe ; leaves persistent; stipules free :— 
ale sepals imbricate; cotyledons broad ..........s0+e0e000* Celtis. 
Mal induplicate-valvate ; cotyledons narrow...... Trem 
Flowers Basle. ovule obcampylotropous; herbs with digitate 
leaves Cannabi Se 
Anthers in bud ei stamens inflexed; style undivided or 0; 
ovule erect, orthotropo 
ves and — reset ‘with stinging hairs; herbs with alternate 
leaves and conn 
Ovary oblique; ie oe ovoid or linear, hooked, with some- 
times 2 basal a Fle eurya 
Ovary ‘cadet: grees subulate, papillose ............+++ Girardinia- 
Leaves and stems with no stinging hairs :— 
}Female perianth 3-5-partite, or obsolete ; bias penicillate ; 
flowers in cymes or clustered on a fleshy receptacle :—[p. 95 
Leaves opposite; flowers cymose or sajiictlase Beers keneay i 
Leaves alternate ; _ ers on fleshy — female 
perianth very small or latostema, — 
