358 BENGAL PLANTS,  [Rourea 
rarely fewer or sc globose, free, hirsute, 1-locular; styles subu- 
late or filiform, stigmas minutely capitate or 2-lobed or rei 
ovules 2, sella from inner angle at base of the | 
ascending, orthotropous. Fruit of 1, rarely 2 or more, sessile pe : 
stalked, 1-, rarely 2-seeded follicles meer by ventral suture. 
Seed erect, often with basal arillus; testa thick, sometimes fleshy 
below the middle; albumen fleshy or 0: embryo with amygdaloid 
cotyledons in exalbuminous, and with leafy cotyledons in albumi- 
nous seeds 
Calyx enlarging in fruit, clasping the base of the sessile capsule Rourea. 
Calyx not acerescent, clasping the pedicel of the stipitate capsule 
Co 
214. Rourea Aubl. 
bs, sometimes scandent, or small trees, with odd -pinnate 
panicles, on usually slender pedicels. Sepals connate in & short 
tube with deeply partite limb; lobes 5, orbicular, imbricate, — 
enlarged and clasping the base of the fruit. Petals 5, usually : 
linear-oblong, exceeding the calyx. Stamens 10; filaments fili- 
form, alternately shorter and longer, connate in a ring at the base. 
Carpels 5, usually 4 imperfect and reduced to functionless styles, A 
smooth, shining ; gehlinyo without album 
409, Rourea commurara Planch.; F. B. ‘Li. 47; EB. D. R556 
Cnestis monadelpha F, I, ii. 454 . 
Tippera, Comilla ; Chittagong. 
A small tree. Vernac. Kowatothi. 
215. Connarus Linn. 
all enlarging, spreading, not clasping the base of the fruit. ni ts 
5, linear-oblong, exceeding the ealyx-lobes. Stamens 10; HI" with 
filiform, alternately shorter and longer, the shorter cgeually 
