212 BENGALI PLANTS. ~ [Berberis 
imbricate, with often 2 basal glands inside. Stamens 6, free; 
anther-cells opening by recurved valves. Ovary simple, stigma — 
peltate, sessile or with a short style ; ovules few, erect basal. Fruit 
berry-like, few-seeded. 
53. BERBERIS asIaTIcA Roxb.; F. B. I. i. 110; E. D. B, 453. 
Chota Nagpur, on Parasnath, near the top. 
A shrub. 
Order VII. NYMPHZACEZ, 
Herbs, perennial, aquatic; leaves usually floating radical, 
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rarely on floating stems, often peltate, in bud involute. Flowers — 
solitary on naked scapes. Disk fleshy and enveloping the carpels, 
sometimes also adnate to the tubular base of perianth, or 0. 
Perianth of many spirally imbricate segments, gradually ane. 
from sepals to petals and petals to stamens or the whorls distinct 
with sepals 3-5, petals 83-5 or more, and stamens 6—-many, all free 
hypogynous, or with the inner or all perigynous, less often | 
epigynous, on the disk. Stamens with filaments continued as the 
connective: +h no Sige. One 4 Ah] Ns ne lonoitudina, — 
introrse or extrorse. Carpels 8 or more in one whorl, free, OF more 
often adnate to disk as a many-celled ovary, rarely (Nelwmbium) 
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naked or with an arillus; albumen floury with a cavity in w oe 
the embryo is partially immersed, or 0; embryo with thi 
cotyledons and usually a large plumule. 
Carpels confluent with each other or with the disk ; ovules many; seeds 
albuminous :— 
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are enclosed, petals and stamens superior ; plants armed with spine — 
Carpels discrete, irregularly scattered, sunk in pits of the turbinate disk; | 
» petals, and stamens inferior ; ovules 1-2; seeds without albume?y 
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plants unarmed 
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