510 BENGAL PLANTS. [Homalium, 
in slender axillary and subterminal racemes or panicles; bracts ab 
base of pedicels often prominent, caducous. Sepals 5-7, connate — 
in a funnel-shaped calyx-tube, adnate to base of ovary; lobes 
narrow, persistent. Petals 4-8, inserted in the throat of the 
2-5, connate in a half-superior, 1-celled ovary ; ovules several or — 
many; placentas parietal, confined to the portion of ovary beyond 
the calyx; styles 2-5, filiform; stigmas capitellate. Fruit & 
coriaceous, half-superior capsule, opening at the top by 2-5 valves 
Seeds few, angular or oblong. 
1. Homarrom Scaticum Kurz; F. B. I. ii. 597. 
Chittagong. 
A tree. 
Order LIX. TURNERACEZ. 
ens 5, in : 
calyx-tube, rarely hypogynous; filaments free; anthers oblong; 
356. Turnera Linn. i 
Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs; leaves alternate, simple, enti 
serrate or pinnately lobed, usually 2-glandular at base; rte 
or 0. Flowers axillary, solitary, rarely fascicled cule 
racemes, yellow, peduncle sometimes adnate to petiole; » 
