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BENGAL PLANTS. 
only 6. Stamens, when present, about 16. Carpels 4, connate in 
a 1-celled, elongate-ovoid, often sulcate ovary, divided above into 
4 oblong, divergent, reflexed lobes, stigmatic on their inner faces 
placentas 4, parietal ; ovules s many on each placenta. Fruit large, 
globose or ovoid, with a hard fibrous or woody rind. Seeds many : 
with a thick firm testa; albumen copious, firm; embryo central 
straight, with large, cordate, foliaceous, 3-nerved cotyledons. 
94. Taraxtocenos Kurz King; E. D. G. 762. 
Tippera ; Chittagong. 
A tree 40-50 feet high; yields the Chaulmoogra seeds 
and sonata oil of commerce. Vernac. Chaulmoogta 
(Chittagong). 
60. Chaulmoogra Roxb. : 
A tree with large, entire, glabrous leaves. Flowers fascicled, — 
axillary or on the stem and large branches below the leaves; 
dicecious. Sepals connate in a cup-shaped, valvately 5- toothed « or 
irregularly opening a calyx. Petals 5, each with a 
ciliate scale. ¢ mens numerous; anthers basifixed, linear. 
Ovary 0. ¢ Re ominades 10-15, villous. Ovary globose 1- celled : 
styles 5; stigmas large, cordate; ovules man y, on 5 p [ 
placentas. Frwit large globular, berry-like, with a rough, hard, : 
woody rind. Seeds obovoid, imbedded in pulp, with tough, 
testa ; albumen oily; cotyledons large, flat, fleshy, reniform, usually 
more or less excentric with radicle oraian horizontal. ; 
- CHAULMOOGRA oporaTa Roxb.; t I. iii, 885. Gynocardia 
odorata F. B. I. i. 195; E. D. « 16 L 
ong. 
Chitta 
A large tree; long supposed to Pei the source of the well- 
known Chaulmoogra seeds, now known to be 
erroneous. Vernac. i. the. 
Order XIV. POLYGALACEA. 
small, sohnlaks Sepals 5, 2 inner wing-like, petadads large, ie s 
bricate. — 5 or a 
keel-like, 
