608 BENGAL PLANTS. (r 
COVER CCH Sees eeeees 
847. Trapa BIsprnoga Roxb. ; F. I. i. 428; F. B. I. ii. 590; # : 
T, ’ 
In all the provinces. ee 
A floating aquatic. Beng. Singhara; P ani-ph : 
847/2. Var. incisa F. B. I, ii. 590 
ar 
A floating aquatic. 
Trees or shrubs, Leaves alternate, often distichous, au 
entire or slightly serrate, often linear-punctulate beneath ; . ju © 
small, deciduous. Flowers regular, usually hermaphrodi ’ ie 
axillary, short-pedicelled, fascicled, or less often in pene e 
panicles. Disk perigynous or hypogynous, annular, cup rt, free 
glandular. Sepals connate in a persistent calyx, with a ee af 
tube, or a longer tube adnate to ovary ; limb 3-7-fid, lobes am 
cate or valvate. Petals as many as calyx-lobes, mie : 
Order LYIII, SAMYDACEZ. 
mple, 
i 
or oblong; dehiscence longitudinal, either introrse pee 4 
Ovary free or half-superior, l-locular; style single wit ioe 
capitate or 3-fid, or rarely styles 8; ovules many or few : 
ds few or many, oblong or angular; albumen fleshy; em) 
axial, but shorter than the albumen. 
