262 BENGAL PLANTS. 
97. Malachra Linn. 
Herbs ; leaves angled. Flowers in dense heads, 
with bracteoles. Sepals 5, connate below. . Petals 5, ie 
CHRA CAPITATA Linn,; F. B. I. i 
Common everywhere, but socal so in E. and 
Bengal; now extending into the Sundribuns. 
A weed of waste places. Vernac. Ban-bhindi. 
_ 98. Kydia Roxb. 
Trees; leaves palminerved, usually lobed, stellately 
Flowers polygamous, in close panicles; bracteoles 4-6, leafy 
nate below, accrescent and gs reading in fruit. epals 5, 
at the base. Petals 5, obcordate, muster adnate below 1 
staminal tube. Stamens about 15, united below in a tube 
separates above the middle into 5 raid 8 each bearing 3 % 
anthers which are imperfect in functional female flowers. ©" 
2-8-locular ; style 8-cleft, stigmas 3, peltate, imperfect in 1 
tional male flowers ; ovules in each loculus 2, ascending: Fruul 
re SG sae ae obtuse, loculicidally 8-valved capsule. Seeds renifor 
furrowed. 
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KE. D. &. 
W. Bengal ; Behar ; Chota Nagpur. 
A tree. Vernac, Pola. 
164. Kypra_ canycra Roxb.; F. I. iii, 188; F. B. 1 ee 
K. 42. 
99. Hibiscus Medik. 
Sewn shrubs, or trees ; leaves more or less palmately lob 
stipulate. vawe pcg bracteoles 5 or more, rarely: 
taminal Fete numerous, CO" 
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