CRASSULACE 4. 469 
Fruit cS capsular, rarely follicular, or an 
berry. many or few, rarely solitary; albumen 
leshy, rarely scanty or re embryo usually minute, subcylindric. 
313. Vahlia Thunb. 
Annual or biennial, pubescent, often glandular, erect herbs; 
leaves pete. entire; stipules 0. Flowers axillary, subsessile or 
Pedicelled, geminate, white. Sepals 5, connate in a hemi- 
spheric ‘a op i to the ovary ; lobes persistent, ovate or lan- 
 eeolate, valvate. Petals 5, epigynous, obovate, shorter than 
4 Padi obes. Stamens 5, inserted on the margin of the epigynous 
; filaments subulate. Carpels 2, connate in an inferior 
“Tealled ovary, with 2 pendulous, many-ovuled placentas ; styles 2, 
stigmas capitellate. Fruit a capsule, dehiscing at the apex 
between the styles. Seeds many, minute, ellipsoid, smooth. 
746, Vamuta viscosa Roxb.; F. I. ii. 89; F. B. I. ii. 399. 
W. Bengal 
A small herb, 
47. VaHura OLDENLANDIOIDES Roxb.; F. I. ii. 89; BF. Be 
99. 
Behar. 
A small herb. 
Order XLIX. CRASSULACEZ. 
. ane, sometimes eines or paniculate Disk 
oe by hypogynous mig eppatitead fags? adnate to 
Sepals connate in a 4-5-, m rarely 6-8-fid, free 
‘ al Petals 4-5, rarely 6-8, Pas or iis Stamens as many 
as many as petals, hypogynous or epipetalous ; # Smet 
Sto or subulate ; linear or didymous; dehiscence 
subul anther ear 
‘ongitudinal, lateral. Carpels 4-5, very rarely fewer, free oF cone 
