1034 BENGAL PLANTS. [Apostasia, 
3-celled ovary; style short; stigma terminal, discoid. Fruit a 
linear, 3-locular capsule. Seeds large. 
2127. Apostasia NuDA R. Br.; F. B. I. vi. 175. 
A rigid, leafy herb, 10-12 in. high; panicles decurved. 
Order CXXVIII. SCITAMINEZ. 
Herbs, often large, frequently with a pseudostem of convolute 
leaf-sheaths, "spe with a woody caudex. Leaves radical or 
cauline, usu mbranous; sheaths generally large, clasping 
tah stem ; ae ates r 0; lamina with strong central vein; 
secondary nerves pinnate, close, parallel. Flowers hermaphrodite, 
rarely 1-sexual, irregular, solitary or spicate; bracts membranous 
or herbaceous ; lienatuates membranous, sometimes 0. Perianth 
2-seriate, superior ; outer segments 3, calycine, rarely petaloid, 
e or connate in an entire, toothed or spathaceous 
inner segments petaloid, connate in a long or short corolla- 
lac free or adnate to the petaloid staminodes ; limb 3-partite, 
the segments free or connate. Stamens only 1 perfect, the 
remainder replaced by petaloid staminodes, or 5 perfect, with the 
sixth imperfect or obsolete ; anthers linear, 2-celled, rarely of one 
cell on the margin of a petaloid connective. Carpels connate in @ 
8-celled, rarely 2-celled or 1-celled, inferior ovary; style usually 
slender, with 2 short stylodes crowning the ovary ; stigma usually 
entire or subentire; ovules many, rarely few, anatropous, axial, 
rarely parietal. Fruit a loculicidally 3-valved capsule, or indehis- 
cent mbranous or fleshy, usually crowned by the remains 
of iy ‘aaa Seeds often arillate; albumen floury; embryo 
*Stamen only one perfect, others reduced to staminodes or 0 :—[p- 1036] 
tAnther 2-celled ; calyx tubular or spathaceous ; style slender, embraced 
below the stigma by sr ta ; placentas many-ovuled ; embryo 
central, straight :—[p. 1 
nerd 1-celled ; as 3, parietal; corolla-tube long; stigm® 
urbinate :— 
Scape leafiess ; flowers lilac 
_Mantisia. 
Stem leafy ; flowers yellow . .Globba- 
Ovary 3-celled; placentas axial :— 
