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placentas; style filiform, simple. Fruit an irregularly dehison 
coriaceous, or soft, berry- like capsule. Seeds minute, numerous, 
curved; minutely punctate. 
814. MeLasroma MALABATHRICUM Linn.; F. I. ii. 405; F. B. I 
ii. 523; E. D. M. 359. 
In all the provinces except C. Bengal and Sundribuns. 
A spreading shrub, 5-6 feet high. 
340. Sonerila Roxb. : 
Herbs, rarely shrubby below; leaves membranous or somewhat 4 
fleshy, opposite, those of a pair similar in shape but often different 4 
in size or of different shapes and then as if alternate, usually some 
what oblique, 3-7-nerved from the base or near it, r 
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or campanulate babes ly or teeth small. Petals 3, ovate 
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815. SoneRma TENERA A Rope F. B. 1. i 
Chota Nagpur 
A herb, 
341. Memecylon Linn. 
Glabrous shrubs or trees; leaves oe short- -petioled ° ae 
sessile, coriaceous, orbicular-ovate or lanceolate, entire, 
als 4, connate in a campanulate, glabr 
dilated, truncate or shortly lobed. Petals 4, blue ° 
white, rarely reddish. Stamens 8, equal; filaments long; 
