308 BENGAL PLANTS. [. 
*Leaves 2-foliolate; calyx 5-partite; ovary entire; fruit a jane i 
oily, 1-seeded icape- ; @small spiny tree [p. 307] ....:+.sseeeee BBS 
148. Ailanthus Desf. 
Tall trees ; leaves very large, alternate, imparipinnate. F 0 
small, polygamous, in terminal or axilla: ary panicles. Calyx 
lobes equal, imbricate. Petals 5, valvate; disk 10-lobed. Stame 
in ¢ flowers 10, in ¢ flowers 2-8; filaments short or filifor 
scales 0. Ovary 2-5-partite and 2-5-locular; styles connal 
‘etl solitary in each loculus, semianatropous. Fruit of] 
single-seeded samaras; wing very large, membranous. 5 
pendulous; albumen scanty ; embryo with — cotyledons. 
1. hacindnags EXCELSA Roxb.; F. I. ii. 450; F. B. Li 
658. 
« Ake 
Behar, rare; Chota Nagpur, common; Orissa, 
A tree 60-80 feet high; flowers in lax, often mue 
ns panicles. Hind, Mahgrukhs, ghorkaram 3 
Uriya Mahanim, gormi-kawat. 
149. Balanites Del. 
Shrubs or trees, armed with spines ; leaves coriaceous, 2. folic 
leaflets entire. Flowers small, green, in axillary cymes. 
292. Batanites Roxeurcum Planch.; F. B. I. i. 522; : 
B. 13. Ximenia egyptiaca F. I. ii. 253. : 
Behar. 
A small spiny tree, 20 feet high; flowers int 
axillary cymes. Hind. and Beng. Hingan. 
Order XXXII. OCHNACEA. 
Trees or shrubs, juice watery. Leaves enti simple, ¥ 
pinnately compound; stipules 2, free. rs Stee 
phrodite, bracteate, often showy, in neering panicl 8 OF 
