292 BENGAL PLANTS. [Tribi 
solitary, white or yellow, on pseudo- axillary peduncles, Sond 
Petals 5, patent, caducous. Stamens 10, inserted at the base 0 
a 10-lobed annular disk, alternately short and long, the 5 shorter 
glandular externally, the 5 longer opposite the petals; filaments 
Ovary sessile, hirsute, 5-12-locular and 5-19-lobed; 
tary in each coccus, obliquely pendulous; albumen 0; embry 
with ovate ihe dons. 
Vlowaiss ‘4—-6 in. across 
7 7 } rl 1} ey | ie 
258. TRIBULUS CISTOIDES Tee: BY Bl Tis 438. 
C. Bengal, only near Caleutta, dticttisiea and rare, 
Tirhut ; Behar; Chota Nagpur ; Orissa. 
A prostrate fer’ with spiny fruits. Vernac. Gakhuru. 
6. Peganum Linn. 
Perennial herbs, islet or pubescent; leaves alternate, entire 
or multifid ; stipules 2, setaceous. Flowers white, solitary, on sub 
terminal leaf-opposed peduncles. Sepals 4-5, sometimes leafy 
= pinnatifid. Pet, tals 4-5, imbricate. Stamens 12-15, inserted 
2-3 stigmatic ~— above; © pe 
in each loculus numerous on the inner angle. Fruit 3-4-¢ ne 
ic and splitting by 3 valves, or —e and indehiseent. mee 
e 
oie ee Pagal BD. P37 
Western Behar ; Wt hut: very rar 
A bush 1-3 feet fe atk “Hind, Sl "Beng. Isband. 
This genus, a the advice of Hooker in the Flora of British 
India is retransferred from Rutacee to Zygophyllee. One great 
tion to Maing hore in Rutacee is the absence of pellucid cual 
from its lea 
