464 BENGAL PLANTS. [Pygewm. 
306. Pygeum Gaertn. 
Evergreen shrubs ot trees; leaves alternate, persistent, a 
entire ; stipules small, fugacious; basal gla nds 2 or 0. 
emall, racemose, sometimes ¢ from suppression of ovary. Sepals 
connate in a campanulate or urceolate tube, with limb 5-6-, of 
10-15-lobed ; lobes often unequal. Petais 5—6,minute when calyx 
5-6-lobed, absent when calyx 10-15-lobed; even when present 
often much resembling calyx-lobes, usually villous. Stamens 10- 
50, 1- or more-seriate at mouth of calyx-tube ; filaments slender, 
incurved; anther all. Carpel solitary at the base of ~ 
calyx-tube, omoid ¢ or subglobose ; style terminal, slender, € 
— terminal, capitate; ovules 2, collateral, pene 
a eerie « oblong, —— didymous J 
pe; pericarp thin, soft or dry. Seeds tanvesl oblong 
cotyledons rota sdebeh cies radicle minute, superior 
Tree; leaves oblong-lanceolate, long- -acuminate; racemes slender, 
8 villous, narrow-ovate ; stamens 30-40 ......--.-seereertee* 
Shrub; leaves oblong, subacute or obtuse; racemes dense, eee 
petals glabrous except margins, wide-ovate ; stamens 15 ..Lucidm- 
731. Pyezum acuminatum Colebr.; F. B. I. ii. 318. 
N. Bengal; Chittagong. 
A tree; drupe dark- le, an inch across. 
pe purp “B. L. iis 820. 
villous; 
acuminatum. 
Chota Nagpur, Parasnath. 
A shrub. 
307. Baoger'e Linn. 
x sll) 
stipules a rs white or yellow, often palygaot 
cymose on erect scapes; bracteoles 5, close under calyx 
0. a persistent, obconic or turbinate, disk- 
tent; filaments filiform, glabrous; anthers didymous: 
numerous on a convex receptacle; style ventral, pe 
solitary, ascending. Fruit a large, Hee rope 
with many minute achenes sunk in its surfac Seeds min ; 
Flowers yellow ; fruit insipid swoiiens dns thosese 
Flowers white ; fruit edible , iste ae 
