998 BENGAL PLANTS. | Burmannia. 
scales. Flowers hermaphrodite, regular, solitary, terminal or 
unilaterally spicate or r racemose on a forked rachis, with a bract 
opposite each. Perianth i or, corolline, persistent, 6-lobed 
or 6-cleft, or rarely . vine lobes valvate. Stamens 8 or 6, in 
cluded, adnate to perianth-babe or nar filaments very short or 
0; anthers 2-celled ; cells distinct ; dehiscence transverse or longi- 
tudinal. Carpels 8, nate in an inferior ovary, 3-celled with 
axial placentas, or 1- celled with 8 parietal placentas ; ovules many, 
minute; style simple; stigmas usually 8, short. Fruit a locu- 
licidal capsule, or opening vertically. Seeds many, minute, reticu-_ 
ate; albumen 0; embryo homogeneous. 
891. Burmannia Linn. 
Annual herbs ; stem simple or divided; leaves ensiform, acumi- 
nate, radical, sometimes reduced to scales or obsolete. Flowers 
regular, hermaphrodite, solitary or few or several, secund on the 
branching of a forked cyme. Perianth segments 2-seriate, connate 
in a winged or angled tube; segments of outer series 3, of inner 
also 3, smaller, sometimes obsolete. Stamens 3, sessile or sub- 
socalie anther-cells short, separated by a broad connective, 
crested dorsally ; dehiscence transverse. Carpels 3, connate in - 
3-celled ovary; ovules many ; style short ; stigma 8-lobed. F" ruit 
a capsule, tipped by the persistent perianth, more or less 3- winged, 
a loculicidally between the _ or sometimes rupturing 
transversely. Seeds minute, oblong subglobose ;_ testa thin, 
each or striate, usually closely DRE sometimes lax and 
produced at both ends of seed. 
2017. Bu apg caLestis Don; F. B. I. v. 665. B. triflora 
E18. Avi. 
Chota Nagpur; Behar; Dae, N. Bengal ; Chittagong: 
A slender weed of damp pla 
Order CXXVII. ORCHIDACEA. 
Herbs, very rarely shrubby, usually either terrestrial, often 
tuberous-rooted, with annual, herbaceous, simple stems, leafy °F 
leafless, and with solitary or spicate or racemose flowers, °F 
a with perennial stems or branches, usually leafy, 
ariously thickened, and often forming a pseudobulb, flowerins 
toa the top sides or base of the pseudobulb; bracts usually 
