450 BENGAL PLANTS. 
adnate to tube of corolla, Carpel free. Seeds sometimes arillate, 
with little or 0 albumen; embryo with flat cotyledons. 
Anthers gland-tipped ; stamens 5-10 :— 
Calyx-teeth short, imbricated ; filaments usually either connate ot 
adnate at base ; inflorescence capitate, heads large ; trees......Parkia, 
Calyx valvate ; filamen 
Taiflonieniin elongated :— 
Large tendril-bearing climbers; leaves with few leaflets; ot 
very long and wide; seeds huge; flowers sessile; leaflets Keele 
i 
— or shrubs without tendrils; leaves with many leaflets ; me 
ep saslele shortly stalked; leaflets fairly large, not contiguous, 
alternate on the secondary rachis ; unarmed trees ; La AEC: i 
at length contorted 
Flowers sessile ; leaflets small, opposite; arme ‘a shrubs 
od —- with thick, edible mesocarp; leaflets sal oo 
contiguo —s 
Pod thin, coriaceous, at length contorted ; leaflets m 
ous Dichrostachys 
contigu 
Infiorescence chbitats, heads small :-— 
mall aquatic or subaquatic herbs, with small, thin yer” — 
early OF SGUGTO 2 Bia ae ; 
“ks trees pe orchie thick, woody pods, late in ‘aaa ope ; 
Hoth autres: (05 ok Se eee Xylia. 
Aster: nt “ Hippel calyx valvate, rarely 0 :— 
free : 
Filame 
at 
pans definite, as many or twice as many as petals; shrubs 
undershrubs with capitate flowers and thin, coriaceous ap 
— — with continuous valves, dehiscin throug! : 
peers with clavate stigmas ...Desmanthus- 
Large shrubs or small trees with capitate stigmas....-- Le cae 
Pods slightly curved, with usually segmented sige and 
Indehiscant, persistant sutures....__..<.....<.sic.-eee ue 
Stamens indefinite, often very numerous; flowers spicate ae 
tate 
seovceneree® 23°: 
MOVERS CES 69 bb been eo <: 
Filaments more or less connate, usually indefinite, rarely only 
times as many as pees 
*Pod not septate between the seeds abe et j 
tPod straight, sae thin valves :—[p. 45 valves not 
+Sutures thin; pod indehiscent, or if dais the Re 
opening — [p. 451] eee: 
