242 BENGAL PLANTS. [Tamari 
116. Tamarrx Gatuica Linn.; F. B. I. i. 248; E. D.T 
T. indica F. I. ii. 100. 
On river-banks in Tirhut, Behar and Bengal. 
A aor or ape tree; gregarious. Vernac. Jhau, ban- 
jhau, jau ; 
117. Tamarrx prorca Roxb.; F. I. ii. 101; F. B. 1 i. 
E. D. 8. 61. 
On river-banks in Bengal, also in the Sundribun: 
A shrub or small tree ; gregarious. Re: ial jhiat 2 
118, Tamanrx ertcomes Rottl.; F. B. I. i. 249; E. D. T. 68. 
Chota Nagpur, in river bead and on pace banks. 
A bush; gregarious. 
Order XVIII. ELATINEZ. 
Herbs, often minute, or undershrubs. Leaves opposite 
oe entire or serrate; stipules 2, scarious or her 
regular, hermaphrodite, axillary, solitary or in ® 
iis fees Disk 0. Sepals 2-5, free, imbricate. Petals 2 
h ous. Stamens hypogynous, free, 2-5, or 4-10; antl 
2-celled, versatile ; dehiscence longitudinal lateral. Carpels ume 
in a 2-5-locular superior ovary; styles as many as oculi, frees 
stigmas capitate; ovules many in each chamber, on the 
angle, anatropous, raphe usually lateral. Fruit a S€P! 
capsule, the central placental axis and often the septa persisins 
when the valves fall away. Seeds straight or curved with 4 raphe 
on the hollow side; albumen very scanty or 0; embryo conform - 
the seed. : 
74. Bergia Linn. 
Annual herbs, or erect, decumbent or diffusely branche ae! 
shrubs, often pubescent ; leaves opposite, serrate oF 
Flowers solitary or in axillar ary fascicles, minute. pa 5: petals 
5, with herbaceous midrib and membranous margin ales 
usually 5. Stamens 3-5, or 10. Ovary ovoid, >a outils . ie 
many. Capsule subcrustaceous, septicidal. Seeds may: 
Glabrous ; ee — rooting ; sepals 5, petals 5, stame 
flowers sessile, eS 
Puberulous ; rin erect with lower branches aasaunend® “sepals, ae 
and stamens ¢ 1 3-5, varying synchronously ; flowers poi 
