528 BENGAL. PLANTS. [Aetinostemma. 
verrucose, 1-celled ovary ; ovules 2 or 4, pendulous from bwo short, : 
ietal placentas near apex of ovary; style short ; stigmas 2 2 
reniform. _Prut a small, ovoid-conical, half-superior ers a 
—4, ovate, corrugated and denticulate on the margin. 
91. AcTINosTEMMA TENERUM Griff.; F. B. I. ii. 633. 
BE. Bengal. 
A weak climber. 
377. Gynostemma BI. 
A herbaceous climber; leaves pedate, segments 3-5, ovate: 
lanceolate, serrate; tendrils simple. Flowers small, beeen 
greenish, in diffuse axillary panicles. Sepals 5, connate in a shor 
tube; lobes small. Petals 5, connate in a rotate corolla, segments 
lanceolate. ¢ Stamens 5; filaments connate below; . 
~2-celled; cells me straight. ¢ Carpels 2-3, separ ; 
spherical, 2-3-celled ovary; ovules in each cell 2, pen i 
styles 2 or 38, panes below, each 2-fid at tip. Fruit fu 
umbonate, or globose, 1-3-seeded berry. Seeds verrucose. 
892. GynosrEMMA PEDATUM BI.; F. B. I. ii. 638. 
. Bengal, in the Duars. 
A slender climber. 
Order LX!I. BEGONIACEZ. ae 
Herbs or undershrubs, usually succulent ; stem often a cree 
rhizome or corm. Leaves alternate, rarely Pp seudo-vertic 9, 
more or less inequilateral, lobed or toothed or enti ; — 
free, Races deciduous. Flowers unsymmetrical, 1-sexu with 
on axillary, dichotomously cymosely divided pearl 
branchlets and basal bracts usually opposite; gener ad ‘ao 
_ white, rose or yellow, sometimes small. Disk 0. pals 
amens numerous, free or connate in one P “ ini 
narrowly obovoid, 2-celled ; cells adnate ; since 0: 
introrse. ¢ Perianth of 2-6 segments. Ovary _ 
locular or 1-locular, usually 3-locular and rere esis 
placentas axial simple, or 2-lamellate and intruded 
ella 
loculus ; styles 2-4, free or connate below; stigmas 
