184 BENGAL PLANTS. [Synopsis of the 
ttSeeds with little or no albumen, the embryo large and 
filling the seed-coats, or if albumen copious then fleshy : 
and the embryo nearly or quite as long as the albumen; — 
inflorescence cymose or capitate or the cymose clusters 
arranged in catkin-like spikes or racemes ; flowers almost — 
always l-sexual rarely polygamous; perianth 
present with stamens as many as and opposite its lobes 
very rarely fewer or more; herbs, shrubs or trees, leaves 
alternate or opposite [p. 183] ...... CXVI. Urticacez. 
Ovary 2- or more-locular with the loculi cfr and never — 
more than 2-ovulate; rarely (some Evpnorsrace®) 1-loculat 
and diana’ the ‘telly 2, oF if ‘the ovary loa and : 
than the 
perianth. lobes and those of the outer or only series oe A 
absent the fruit a capsule, or if indehiscent drupe-like oF 
berry-like with fleshy or leathery pericarp ; inflorescent® — 
very variable but male flowers never in catkins; leaves 
various usually simple, generally penninerved sometimes 
palmately nerved, rarely miveanige ee herbs, — 
shrubs or trees Euphorbiace®: — 
Seeds ihe saan fruit eto an indehiscent 
l-seeded nut with a Maia or tough 
superposed ; fl 
long hairs, albumen none; trees or shrubs; ape simple 
SBE ahd wives Sees (eves nn CXX. 
aves pinnately compound, stipules none; ovary err 
l-ovuled; stamens many attached to the base of the bracts of 
the catkin-like inflorescence; seeds with a 2-4-lobed base, without 
albumen ; trees [p. 183 CXVI. Ju 
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m 
spinescent nutlet; albumen none [p. 183) . ae Ceratophy""" 
tLeafless trees with slender green jointed branchlets, usually “a : 
duous, and with whorls of small adpressed ae connate scales 
