546 BENGAL PLANTS. [Marlea, 
8), slightly adnate at base to the petals and there hirsute ; anthers 
linear. Carpels 1-8, if more than one, connate in a completely 
2-8-celled ovary, or 1-celled at apex and 2-3-celled below ; ovules 
in each complete or incomplete cell solitary; style long, often 
thickened upwards; stigma simple or with 4 linear or su 
lobes. Frwit a 1-2-celled, 1-2-seeded berry. Seed oblong, com 
pressed ; cotyledons orbicular, thin, leafy. agers 
926. MaRLEA BEGONIMFOLIA Roxb.; F. I. ii. 261; F. B. Li 743; 
E. D. M. 289, 
N. Bengal; Chittagong. : 
A tree 20-60 feet high. Vernac. Marleza, marlia. 
rarely (Styracee and Ebenacee) indefinite 
more or less adnate to corolla-tube, rarely fre 
’ 
o within the corolla a 
- ani iene 
placentas on the inner angle or occasionally on the eee : 
some distance from the inner angle, sometimes with only on! 
and then with as many 1- or more-ovuled parietal placem in 
constituent carpels or with a basal central placenta; apoar™ 
no-carpellary pistil usually oblique, with the generally ge 
ta excentric, 2 
