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272 BENGAL PLANTS. 
nate, simple, lobed or rarely digitately compound, ais 
either penninerved or palminerved ; stipules free, ta 
F lower % regular, hermaphrodite or 1- etttals usually in 
tminal cymes. Disk 0. Sepals 5, connate below rarel; 
out, very taoelp free; lobes valvate. Petals 5 or 0, co 
bud, free or sometimes adnate below to staminal column. § 
many, connate in a column or tube, rarely few and free, ma 
below to petals; anthers in heads or in a ring at apex 0 
8 p 
wohoont tas at their dink ; ca aes “longitudinal, 
Carpels rarely solitary, usually 2-5 united in a superior é 
stalked 2-5-, rarely 10-12-locular xsi styles 1-5, more : 
united, rarely free; ovules few or many, axial on the inner 4 
cent or indehiscent. Seeds sometimes arillate ssa 
scanty or 0; embryo straight or curved, with usually 
cotyledons 
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Flowers 1-sexual or polygamous; petals 0; andreecium columns! 
sessile ; mature carpels discrete :— F’ 
- Anthers sri ie irregularly clustered in a head or ring 
staminal column ; ripe carpels dehiscent. .........:+-+:+-" 
thers 5 in a ring at top of column ; ripe carpels indehiscent 
Flowers oo aaa petals present ; mature carpels conjoined 
1 ferpel in altheria) :— 
pd deciduous or persistent :—[p. 273] 
Petals deciduous :-— anthers 
Andreecium columnar below, dilated into a cup ni or 
edge of staminal cup usually alternating with st 
sules woody :— 
Anther-cells divaricate or confluent ; seeds without ~ 
Anther-cells parallel, distinct ; seeds winged ...Pte iddle to 
Andreecium Be aed conical, cothitatios from the m 
top; staminodes 
Petals persistent: i 
ium tubular with sitherifercue margin ; anthers 
— of 3, the sama Reacting with 5 —, 
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