280 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Bre 
Carpels 2-5, united in a free 2-10-locular ovary; styles 
rarely partly or quite free, or stigmas sessile and as many 
or connate; ovules 1 or more, if few pendulous from 
ascending from base, if more horizontal often 2-seriate, but: 
from inner angle, anatropous with raphe ventral or lateral. 
1-celled. Seeds 1 or more, ascending transverse or pendulous, 
arillate; albumen fleshy, sometimes scanty, rarely 
usually straight, with leafy, rarely fleshy cotyledons. 
Petals thin, coloured, unguiculate, entire or subentire, im 
twisted in bud; anthers globose or oblong, openin 
MVPICOE 5... viévscesisss on 
Sepals distinct :— : 
Petals with a more or less adnate basal seale, inserted round 
@ raised torus ; stamens springing from apex of torus :— 
Fruit not prickly, drupaceous .............s0sessesesee* tits 
Fruit prickly, small, globose, indehiscent or separating 1 
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contracted torus; capsule opening loculicidally, many-seeded 
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Petals rigid, white or sepaloid, almost always laciniate, indupli ce 
in bud ; anthers linear, opening by slits ; stamens arising in groups 
site the petals and alternate with the lobes of a 5-lobed fs: 
distinct; fruit drupaceous . signe 
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116. Brownlowia Roxb. 
Trees ; leaves entire, pinnately 3-5-veined ; pubescence 7 
Flowers many, small, in large terminal or axillary panicles: 
campanulate, irregularly 3-5-fid. Petals 5, eglandular. 
numerous, risin a raised torus, many-seriate; 
; filaments slender ; staminodes linea?’ 
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