478 BENGAL PLANTS. [Calyeop 
lobed or epigynous or 0. Sepals connate in a 4-5-, rarely a 
lobed calyx, with usually valvate, persistent, and occasi 
accrescent or deciduous lobes ; tube adnate to and produced, some- 
times very far, above the ovary. Petals 4-5 or 0, rarely 6-7, : 
usually small. ee 1-seriate, 4-5, or 2-seriate, 8-10, rarely — 
indefinite, inserted on the limb or in the base of the calyx; fila- 
ments subulate or aliform, naked or rarely glandular, em occa: 
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tary, pendulous from the apex. Frwit usually indehiscent, leathery 
upaceous, ovate or angular or winged, sometimes crowned by 
the accrescent calyx-limb. See stig: albumen 0; embryo ; 
with convolute or flattened cotyledon 
ae pecans in racemes, spikes, or heads ; le val- : 
mens without glands or staminodes at their bases; aa Z 
desl by longitadtnal slits; ovules 2-7, suspended by a long funicle: 
Petals 0 
Calyx-limb accrescent in fruit; diffuse rambling mes 
Calyx-limb deciduous ; erect trees or shrubs :— ig 
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sists Hl Spikes Or TACOMES. £006): .<cinckascddboseeeeeet Terminalis. : 
Petals 5 bs a 
Calyx. is deciduous ; climbers with opposite leaves :— be = 
Calyx-tube not or shins Bai beyond ovary (never &' o 
‘5 in. long) ; if produced, with calyx-limb 4-fid ...-.. Cone . 
Calyx-tube much produced —— ovary (from -75-2°5 in : 
Pile b 5-fid with : 
yx-limb = shrubs or trees (of raainotte -swamps ) : 
Pe. Le 
Inflorescence symiats ; “ane lobes imbricate; stamens “With pre 
staminodes at their base; anthers opening by recurved late teral _ 
ovule solitary, suspended . a short funicle een 
324. Calycopteris hanks 
A diffuse shrub with drooping branches; leaves opposite, shot 
petioled, EA or ovate. Flowers small, in dense ! of i 
Rae and crowded in large skies towards the ends 
