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BENGAL PLANTS. [Synopsis of the 
1-2-celled, each cell 1-ovuled; shrubs or irees 
CXI. Th ‘ 
Perianth-tube very short, lobes either 6 or 4, 2+ 
stamens as many or twice as many as and opposite theta, 
anthers almost always opening by valves; ovary al 
1-locular ; shrubs or trees or, very rarely, parasitic twining 
erbs 
Tee A oe Oe wee 6 oe 666 8 et ore SS * eee 
i phecds usvally with copious elhumens i albumen scanty (Nyonsoms 
Leaves stipulate, stipules connate as an pi embracing the 
nodes, persistent rarely deciduous, ce a circular scar opposite 
centric or peripheric; usually herbs, rarely shrubs or * trees :—(p. 181] 
Leaves enna or if stipules present (PHyToLAccacEs occasion: 
minute or reduced to tubercles :— 
Poseutk tubular, base adherent to ovary, tube short or long 
deciduous, truncate or sei toothed or -lobe d, the segments 
eekanti scarious and dry; flowers always bracteate te ad 
gynous or perigynous; ovary 1-locular, style simple or 2-3-fid} 
ovule solitary or ovules 2-3; — or grok leaves opposite 
or alternate CII. Amarantace®. 
Perianth membranous, herbaceous or coriaceous, never soar 
ous; stamens anally hypogynous; leaves alternate VeY 
rarely opposite 
Flowers Siokamuiaie axillary or in spikes or panicles, 
cymose, rarely a or sunk in the nodes if a ine 
eee eee ees 
rachis, or very r; simply sap _— ebracte 
rarely bracteato, rar rarely both bracteate and 2-bré 
late; herbs with membranous or he ig s perianth, OF 
Occasionally in 1- ia female flowers pea absent; 
ovary bi Pgs l-ovuled; style ates or 2-3-lobed, °F 
styles 2-6. i cess Chenopoe 
a ale racemose, racemes ee or pore 
bracteate and 2- bracteolate; trees or shrubs, rarely rt 
woody at the base: : pecianth herbaceous or coriaceous} 
ovary 1-locular Lsveled, style simple, or carpels severs! 
apocarpous each with 1 ovule and a wae style 
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