530 BENGAL PLANTS. [Tetrameles, 
tary ovary 0 or minute. ¢ Sepals connate in a calyx, with tube 
adnate to ovary; lobes 3-8, short. Petals 0. Stamens, if pre- 
: P On 
2-partite or simple; ovules numerous, ascending or horizontal, 
tropous. Frwit a coriaceous or membranous capsule, opening 
at the apex between the styles. Seeds numerous, small ; albumen 
scanty ; embryo axial, straight, cylindric. 
379. Tetrameles R.Br. 
accessory lobes present. Petals 0. Stamens 4, opposite the . 
ealyx-lobes, inserted round a depressed disk, within which is occa 
sionally a quadrangular rudiment, ovary. ¢ Sepals 4, comma 
in an ovoid calyx-tube with short lobes. Petals 0. Carpels 4, a 
connate in a 4-lobed ovary with intruded apex; ovules 3-4-seriate 
on 4 parietal placentas ; styles 4, short ; stigmas simple, subclavate- 
Fruit a small, ovoid, faintly 4-ridged, membranous capsule, ope 
ing at the apex between the styles. Seeds minute, numerous, 
flattened, ellipsoid, with a loose, lax, reticulate testa. : 
895. TeTRameLes Nupirtora R.Br.; F. B. I. ii. 657; B.D 
- : 
N. Bengal, Duars; Chittagong. <a 
A lofty tree, 100-150 feet high. Vernac. Sandugem” 
maina-kat. 
Order LXIV. CACTACEZ. | 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with usually succulent stems ; branches ‘ 
often thickened, striated or angled. Leaves usually rep 
Petals many, free or shortly connate below, imbr fila- 
Stamens numerous, free, or adnate to the base of the petals; *™ 
ments filiform ; anthers small, oblong, dehiscing in front. “*" * 
free or embedded in the stem, 1-locular ; placentas many, parietal , 
