244 BENGAL PLANTS. (Hyp 
121. SSR gaponicum Thunb.; F. B. Li 
Cho gr a ma common; Tirhut; N. te E. Ben 
rare; Chittag 
A small sate or pruakae annual. 
76. Cratoxylon Bl. 
Trees or shrubs; leaves entire, usually chartaceous. er 
i terminal cymes. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, 
appendaged or not at the base. Stamens numerous, in 3, rarely 5, 
bundles, with fleshy intervening hypogynous glands. 
3- _— styles distinct ; ovules 4 or more in each loculus. 
Fruit a 8-valved, loculicidal capsule, valves bearing the septa on 
their ~~ Seeds winged at the apex. 
192. Craroxy.on wenurouum Kurz; F. B, 1 i, 207% 
Chittagong. 
A shrub, 10 feet high, 
Order XX. GUTTIFERZ. 
s or trees, with yellow or greenish resinous ioe 
Leaves opposite decussate, rarely whorled, simple, entire, 
coriaceous; stipules 0. Flowers regular, dicecious or polyg amous, 
rarely hermaphrodite; axillary or terminal, solitary, fascicley 
in simple or _ panicled few-flowered cymes, very rarel 
in decussate pairs. Petals 2-6, rarely more or 0, usually ™ 
imbricate or conto 3 Stamens usually many, rarely de go 
nd as many or Fotos as many as petals; filaments free OF Te 
connate, or connate in bundles as many as petals; anthers adnate 
extrorse. ¢ or ? Staminodes, or stamens surroundin, 
fewer and less united than stamens in ¢. Carpels rarely 
usually several, united in a 2-many-, rarely 1- locular ovary» 
on torus or seated on the disk ; oo slender, short, or 0, 
stigmas as many as loculi, free connate, sometimes 
ovules in each loculus 1-2 or dens, axial or erect basal. 
indehiscent, baceate or drupaceous, rarely a capsule wi 
7 cidally dehiscent valves. Seeds large, often with arillus of 
0; embryo conform to seed, with either a large 
and obsolete cotyledons or thick cotyledons and minute ™ 
