566 BENGAL PLANTS. 
binate calyx-tube; limb often tubular; lobes 0 or short, or large 
and leafy. Petals 5, connate in a variously shaped corolla with 
long or short tube; lobes contorted. Stamens 5; anthers narrow, 
subsessile. Disk annular or swollen. Carpels connate in & 
2-celled, or "occasionally a — ovary; ovules piece neey 
fusiform, entire or 2-fid. ruit a globose, ellipsoid or ovoid 
usually 2-celled, many-seeded berry. Seeds often embedded in 
ulp, angular; testa thin; albumen horny ; embryo axia wil 
rounded, leafy cotyledons. 
Flowers solitary, or if 2-3 on a peduncle (sometimes in R. snc 
then with a race corolla, small or medium-sized ; arme 
species with straight spines : 
Corolla campanulate, with a very short tubular base and broad, 
reflexed, obtuse lobes; calyx-lobes broad, obtuse; flowers usually 
Tsay berry large, yellow, many-seeded, crowned with the é 
mb :— 
ques glabrous externally, always solitary, of two kinds, ® large 
sessile form with a ring of hairs inside, and a maller pedun uncleds 
glabrous within; berry 2 in. long ; stipules Biss bint igi 
Corolla hairy ie mg usually solitary, sometimes 2-§.088 : 
-dumetorum 
peduncle ; berry 1- ong ; stipules ovate-acuminate.. 
sah tubular es Sind , long, slender, with oblong, : 
: : mall, purple 
; flowers in fascicles; calyx-teeth linear ; berry * 
hele cells about 6-seeded ; stipules narrowly areca’ srieulal 
ith 
Flowers in axillary or leaf-opposed cymes ; corolla saver sng so 
slender tube ; unarmed 5 ae or, if armed, pe ae acpi 
Cymes sessile, solitary from upper axil of each oye uch 
spreading ; flowers ions shortly pte corolla: -tube ™ 
shorter than the lobes; berry smooth, ‘5—* . long, ie a 
corolla-tube wie longer than the lobes; berry 
5 in. long, about 8-seeded; a snl t sh 
reflexed spines or unarmed 
976. Ranpra utrerosa DC.; F. B. I. iii. 110; F- 
Posoqueria uliginosa F. I. i. 712. 
. and E. Bengal. 
A small, rather rigid tree with thick, wiletyt - 
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