494 BENGAL PLANTS. 
filiform, rarely short; stigma punctiform or truncate or capitate, 
sega or lobed; ovules many, anatropous on axial or less often — 
parietal placentas, rarely few on a free, central placenta. Fruit 
ae in the calyx-tube, capsular, dehiscent irregularly or by 
slits or valves at the top of its cells, or an indehiscent berry. 
Seeds minute, usually very many, rarely solitary; albumen 
embryo with short, very rarely with long, convolute cotyledons. 
Leaves 3- or more-nerved from base; ovary 4-5-celled; placentas 
koa from axis; ovules and seeds very many ; fruit more or 
capsula, 
Petals re seeds = through half a circle, minutely page= 
Mtaniens al alike cc 35.6 aiatianian. chee 
Stamens very unequal... ......i.0...00.000ccests00syhouees meee 
Petals 3 ; ‘aks on. oblong or wedge- saksiuil often engl 
saat Binosiely nerved ; ovary 1-celled, plecenian free, cnt ov 
; Seeds solitary; fruit a berry ..... .-++-Memecy 
338. Osbeckia Linn. 
Herbs or shrubs, usually erect ; branches generally . angel : 
leaves opposite or occasionally ternate, entire, subcoriaceous, 
nerved. Flowers terminal, solitary, capitate OF panicled, P 
or white ; bracts usually conspicuous. Sepals 5 or 4, conte 
an ovoid tube, beset with stellate hairs or pectinate te scales; 
‘pubescent, with usually stellate, rarely simple hairs cant 
4. Stamens 10 or 8, equal or subequal; anthers oblong, ; 
or attenuate or beaked; connective not produced at pi erior, 
slightly swollen or 2-tuberculate. Carpels connate in aie 
5- or 4-celled ovary, more or less adnate to calyx-tube; © 
numerous, on placentas radiating from the axis ; style long: § 8 
Fruit a capsule opening at its free apex by 5 or 4 pores 
many, curved, minutely tuberculate. 
*Perianth normally 4-merous :—{p. ae 
Anthers not beaked ; annual herbs : truncate 
Capsule oblong, distinctly g-ribbed : plant 4-16 in. high -- 
Capsule ovoid, very faintly ribbed ; plant 2 in. al ae Kuri . 
Anthers pean ea! 
tFlowers small ; caly-tube tainpandlate’ a herb with ¢ as 
branches [p. 495] .. pelo es ere 
