194 BENGAL PLANTS. 
Banks of rivers and nullahs, fairly general. 
An acrid weed. Vernac. Polica (Tirhut). 
5. Nigella Linn. 
Annual erect it ; leaves alternate, 2-pinnately dissected; 
stipules small. Flowers terminal peduncled, white, blue o — 
yellowish, sometimes with n involucre of floral leaves. Sepals — 
5, regular, deciduous, ittoaic, petaloid. Petals 5, with long 
claw and small 2-fid limb. Stamens numerous. Carpels 3-10, 
sessile, connate below, each with several horizontal ovules 2-seriate 
on the ventral suture; styles usually long. Fruit a capsule : 
dehiscing along ventral suture of free portion of indivi 
carpels. 
8. NigeLua sativa Linn.; E. D. N. 158. N. indica F. I. ii. os. 
In cultivated ground, spontaneous, especially in the 
western p: é 
A crop, atte occurring as a weed. Beng. ragrels ae 
kaljira. 
Order II. DILLENIACEZ. 
Trees or shrubs, sometimes ¢ climbing, or herbs ; leaves aera 
simple, entire or toothed; stipules 0, but petiole setae 
rarely with lateral deciduous stipules. Flowers regular; - 
phrodite, often showy, white or yellow. Disk 0. Sepals 5, rarely % 
more or fewer, imbricate, persistent, often accrescent. Petals 5, 
rarely more or fewer, caducous. Stamens many, hypogynous+ 
anthers innate; dehiscence longitudinal, introrse or lateral, of : 
terminal pores. Carpels 1—many, free or cohering ; styles Sri. ; 
albumen perch embryo minu 
Climbing shrub ; carpel 1; filaments expanded, anther-cells sh : 
remote, oblique ....., veereeeee oD _ 
Trees; carpels 5-20; filaments slender, anther-cells pA “Diese 
6. Delima Linn. ED 
Voody climber; leaves scabrid, parallel-nerved from the mid 
Flowers numerous, hermaphrodite, white, in terminal pani’™™ 
