70 BENGAL PLANTS. [Artificial & 
a a 
pa Class VI. HEXANDRIA. 
Leaves 0; parasitic twining herbs ............. 
802. Cassytha. 
Leaves present, or if no proper leaves (A a then their place taken 
by slender leaf-like modified branches (cladodes) :— 
owers in simple or eige is piles (spadices) subtended by large, 
much modified bracts (spathe 
Perianth-segments aad rigid, in two dissimilar series of 
3 each :— 
Leaves pinnatisect, segments with flabellate nerves; flowers 
polygamous (usually moneecious) ; medium 
987. W. 
Leaves orbicular, flabelliform, fae — with induplicate sides 
and parallel nerves ; flowers all 2-s 
Stigma in fruit basal ; lofty palms 982. Corypha. 
n fruit terminal ; sm CUT nearer 983. Licuala. 
Perianth-segments small, herbaceous, 6 similar :-— 
Erect prickly herbs of wet places....... 1012. Lasia. 
candent unarmed epiphytes ........ 1011. Pothos. 
Flowers variously arranged, but if in spikes these not subtended by 
spathes :— : 
*Leaves compound, with 3 or more leaflets Lp. 71] 
Leaves sacra Det MONOWRAG, co cicsrocccs cases, .: 51. Gynandropsis. 
Leaves p 
termin 
Leaflets more than b, ne alia dotted :— 
Leaves odd-pinna 
Style simple ; > 5-celled ; fruit a 5-valved capsule with 
many winged seeds 
Style 3; ot l-celled ; fruit a dry drupe — a firm 
1. seeded at 0. Rh 
Leaves ae. 
Seeds without an Bore 
Cocci of fruit at heek os united, ultimately cpntneot 
separating 
pet: . ~ dotted, a lateral pair with a — petioluled 
al leaflet 40. Triphasia. 
SCOR FNP SSRs se i. eeeee ood 
ee ee 
in eee Shlain oe Bk at ee een 
it deeply — to nearly oper oe a 
spontaneously separating ..__ 4. A 
Seeds arillate :— 
{Fruit not aad — aay more than 1 
developed 1090). 195. Schleicher@ 
