556 BENGAL PLANTS. [Hedyotis. 
ovary ; ovules numerous, on sessile or elise placentas on or below 
the — of the septum; style filiform ; stigma 2-fid or 2-lobed. 
L mall, membranous, coriaceous or crustaceous, septicidal 
or loculicidal capsule, sometimes of 2 separable or connate cocci, 
or quite indehiscent; cells or cocci 2-many-seeded. Seeds plano- 
convex or angled; testa hardly ever winged; albumen horny; ; 
embryo clavate. 
Capsule dividing septicidally into 2 cocci, each several-seeded fe ven- 
trally dehiscent; top of capsule rounded and protruded betw 
2 teeth ; cymes subumbellate ; a much-branched, stoutish, sink : 
aeeeee 
liane _ loculicidally dehiscent on the crown only, 
indehise 
yes 
Fruit Yoonlicidaliy opening on the crown; cells many- -seeded ; lea : 
with 1 central nerve ; capsules hispid : 
capitate, Q 
Leaves narrow-linear, scabrid pling ; flowers in sessile, cap 
the 
et, and terminal cymes; calyx-teeth subulate, shorter pen 
Prue eesceese sewers ee®, 
pie elliptic to lanceolate, scabrid on both surfaces ; Pate 
in ae clusters ; calyx-teeth triangular, about as 2 i 
wie reer cage 
Fruit hard, minu cells f ew-seeded ; cymes all sa aa 
shinee aia, rarely flat, always more than 1 in ihe 
Aer subsessile ; calyx-teeth nese : 
. or hispid PPOHE iT... OAS. CDA 
es peduncled ; pate pedicelled :— - 
Noes short ; calyx-teeth longer than the hispid wr 
ene 
peor long, filiform ; calyx-teeth shorter than the ¢ 
pee made broadly obconic ; cstls mangaoeies em 
axillary and terminal; leaves 1-nerved; calyx-teeth Thomsoni- 
recurved, longer than the teeth ..............s0000eeerrert" 
: iii, 57. 
941. Hepyoris scanpens Roxb.; F. I. i. 364; F. B. Lm 
ttagong. f 
A considerable climber. Vernac. Guji- 
942. Hepyoris prniroia Wall.; F. B. I. iii. 60. 
; Chota Nagpur. 
A slender, wiry, annual herb, with 4-angled stems. 
or quite 
‘a 
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