228 BENGAL PLANTS. 
by apical pores. Carpels 3, rarely 4-5, connate in a 1-locular 
sessile superior ovary it] ietal pl tas; 8s e simple ; stigma 
5 truncate, or cup-like, entire or lobed ; ovules many, rately 
1-2, on the parietal placentas, anatropous. Fruit a 3-valved, 
oaks 4-5-valved capsule, very rarely berry-like and indehiscent. 
Seeds small; albumen fleshy ; embryo straight, axial. 
54. Ionidium Vent. 
Herbs or undershrubs; leaves alternate or sometimes opposite. 
Flowers axillary, orange, red or purple. Sepals 5, Papa : 
spurred on the back. Ovary ovoid; style clavate incurved, stigma 
oblique. Fruit a 3-valved, subglobose, few-seeded capsule. a 
globose. 
87. Iontpium surrruticosum Ging.; F. B. I. i. 185. viol 
suffruticosa F. I. i. 649. 
verywhere in grassy places. 
A small branching pocrniad, with rose-coloured flower 
Beng. Nunbora; Hind. Ratanpuras; Santal. Tandi oo 
bir suraj mukhi. : 
Order XIII. BIXINEZ. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, usually toot : | 
stipules small, caducous, or 0. Flowers regular, hermap a 
irregularly, deciduous. Petals a many as the sepals or 0, . 
many, imbricate or contorted. Rethons hypogynous or Pomerat : 
perigynous, usually man ny; anthers 2-celled; dehiscence oe : 
dinal lateral, rarely apical porous. Carpels 2-many, connate in ee 
1-locular rarely more-locular ovary, very rarely carp 
placentas aes or somewhat intruded, linear or dilated; as 
and sti many as carpels, united or free; ovules g-many 
~ pacts, Pe ET or mates Fruit dry ber eitii 
f the valves, or indehis 
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