240 BENGAL PLANTS. [P 
stipules 0. Flowers terminal, solitary or clustered, surrounded , 
a whorl of leaves. Sepals 2, connate below, the free : 
deciduous. Petals 4-6, perigynous or epigynous. Stamens 
more. Ovary half-superior; style 3-8-fid; ovules num 
Fruit a crustaceous, circumscissile capsule. Seeds many, 
form. 
Leaves flat ; seeds brown ; stamens 8-12; root slender 
Leaves *4-1'2 in. long, cuneate-oblong ; ser not ie flowers 
clusters of is small, yellow; petals 5; style 3-8-fid ...+++- oleraets 
eaves *2—3 in. long, ovate- Bleng to ovate- sme nodes pilose; 
flowers pe small, yellow, surrounded by a whorl of 4 lew a 
petals 4; style 3—4-fid ws quadrypes 
Leaves bate linear, ‘5-6 in. long; seeds black ; Pitihed 2 20-many 
root tuberous; flowers in terminal sangesty yellow, s nia by 
whorl of 8 ie and by tufted Hairs)... 1.6... a leis vew eee eencneees 
112. PUntites oLERACEA Linn,; F. I. ii. 463; 
i, 246 ae ae 8 iy 
Searels common in waste ground. : 
An annual prostrate succulent herb. Vernac. 
113, enna QUADRIFIDA Linn.; F. B. Ls — E. 
P. 1187. P. meridiana F. 1. i 
Everywhere, very common yf roadaides and in was 
places. 
A small diffuse prostrate annual. Vernac. Chota ok 
114. Porrutaca ruserosa Roxb.; F. I. ii. 464; F.B. Lb 
E. D. P. 1191. 
Behar, Monghyr, 
A perennial with somewhat fusiform tuberous 
Vernac. Lani iya. 
72. Talinum Adans. 
Herbs or undershrubs, with succulent stems and a 
stipules 0. Flowers racemose or panicled. Sepals 2, her 
ovate, deciduous or subpersistent. Petals 5, 
Stamens 5 or more. Ovary s superior; style 3-fid ; ee 
Fruit a globose or ovoid 2-3-valved capsule. Seeds 8 
or compressed, numerous, strophiolate 
145. Taunem ¢ PATENS Willd. T. ici hae F. I. ii 
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