568 BENGAL PLANTS. [Hyptianthera. 
421. Hyptianthera W. & A. 
A glabrous shrub with terete branches: ; leaves short-petioled; 
stipules triangular, persistent. Flowers small, white, sessile, in 
axillary fascicles ; bracteoles small. Sepals connate in a turbinate 
short corolla; tube hairy within; lobes spreading, contorted. 
Stamens 4 or 5; anthers sessile, oblong, obtuse, pubescent on the 
back and at the base. Disk annular. Carpels connate in & 
2-celled ovary; ovules 6-10, pendulous from the apex of each 
cell; style short, included, its arms pee long, erect, hispid. - 
Fruit an ovoid or globose . Seeds compressed, imbricated, - 
angular; testa thick, fibrous and plicate ; Libdielen fleshy ; embryo | 
small, 
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982. ao stricta W. & A.; F. B. I. iii. 121; E. D. 
8. Randia stricta F. I, i. 526. a 
pee Nagpur; W. C. and E. Bengal. 
A shrub, 5-10 feet high. 
422. Diplospora DC. 
vergreen shrubs or trees, branches terete; Jeaves shortly 
petioled ; stipules triangular, acuminate or lanceolate. Flowers 
small, in short axillary cymes, or fascicled, polygamo-diecious, : 
white or greenish ; coe connate in a cup under the calyx, 0% u 
Sepals connate in obconic or hemispheric calyx- -bube; 
lisah truncate or 4—5- toothed or -lobed. Petals 4 or 5, connate in | 
a short, cylindric or campanulate corolla; lobes spreading, co? . 
torted. Stamens 4 or 5; filaments short or lon ng; anthers oblong . 
or linear, often recurved. Carpels connate in a 2-celled, rarely ® 4 
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3-celled ovary; ovules 2-3 in each cell, on septal placentas; stY le 
short or long, the stigmatic arms linear or oblong. ag ie 
ovoid or globose berry. Seeds few in each cell; albumen fleshy; 
embryo small. 
es ‘ D. 
983. SUT eargas SINGULARIS Korth.; F. B. I. iii. 1235 E. 
D. 672. 
Chittagong. 
A small tree. 
423, Webera Schreb. 
Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite, petioled; fir: triangle 
ovate, usually deciduous, Flowers in terminal corymbose se 
