468 BENGAL PLANS. (Briobe 
744. Extoporrya saponica Lindl.; F. B. I. ii. 872; E. D. B. 286. 
Mespilus japonica F. I. ii. 510. 
Cultivated. 
A small tree. The Loquat. 
312. Pourthiza Dene. 
Shrubs or small trees, generally woolly when young; leaves 
simple, persistent, crenate; stipules minute, subulate. Flowers 
small, white, in few-flowered corymbs with ultimately warted 
branchlets. Sepals 5, connate in an obconic tube; lobes acute. 
etals 5, contorted, obovate, oblique and notched ; claw glabrous. 
Stamens 20; filaments slender. Carpels 2-8, connate in an aeridi 
ovary; styles 2-3, connate more than half their length; stigma — 
2-fid, capitate ; ovules 2 in each loculus, collateral, basal, ascend: 
ing. Frwit a small, ovoid or globose berry; flesh grandlar; 
seeds 1 or 2; endocarp membranous. Seeds ellipsoid ; cotyledons 
rather thick. ee 
745. Pourtuima arcura Dene, var. Hooxert Hook. f.; F. BL 
ii. 382. : 
N. Bengal, Western Duars. 
A shrub. 
Order XLYIII. SAXIFRAGACEA. 
Trees, shrubs, or herbs. Leaves alternate with stipules adnate ; 
i i 30. Flowers ager : 
sometimes in a 1-locular ovary with parietal placentas; atyles 2 
many as carpels, free or connate towards the top, stigmas gene 
or lateral Subeapitate ; ovules numerous, anatropous, ere 
