544 . BENGAL PLANTS. [Heptapleurum. 
petiolar, connate. Flowers in umbels, rarely heads, arranged in 
compound racemes; bracts woolly, deciduous or persl rsistent ; 
bracteoles usually few or 0, rarely densely tufted ; pedicels not 
join: als connate in a toothed or truncate calyx-tube. 
Petals 5, or 6 or more, valvate. Stamens (in our species) 5, or 6 
or more (as many as the petals). Carpels 5 (in our species) oF 6 
with a small or os saan disk ; styles small, distinct (in our 
species), or sometimes connate in a narrow cylindric column. — 
Fruit a o- pate oC RS dry drupe. Seeds compressed ; 
albumen uniform 
923. Hevnarinexos VENULOsuM Seem. ; F. B. I. ii. 729; B.D. 
H.131. Aralia digitata F. I. ii 
Behar; Chota Nagpur 
A climbing shrub. Hind. Dain; Kol. Sukriruin. 
399. Trevesia Vis. ‘ 
Shrubs or small trees, unarmed or prickly ; leaves palmate °F 
digitate ; petiolules say united by a basal wing ; stipules conta ; 
intrapetiolar or obsolete. Flowers polygamous, rather large: a 
umbels panicled ; bracts small or 0; pedicels not joi ted. 
subcoriaceous, in the fertile flowers often calyptrate. Sion = 
8-12, usually 10. Carpels 8-12, connate in an ovary with as nh 
cells as there are petals or stamens; styles connate in 4 ee 
umbo or column. Fruit a large, ovoid berry. Seed comp’ reseed 
albumen uniform. : 
924, Trevesta patmara Vis. ; F. B. I, ii. 732. Gastonia palmate 
F. L. ii oe 
Chittag 
A ria - 10-15 feet high. 
Order LXVIII. CORNACEZ. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, 
general a 
stipules 
axill ‘ 
; ae 
fleshy, sometimes inconspicuous, epigynous. Sepals connate 
tube, adnate to ovary; limb truncate or 4-5-toot hed, pers” 
