576 BENGAL PLANTS. (Psychotria, 
albumen hard, sometimes ruminate; embryo small ; cotyledons 
eafy. 
1006. PsycHoTRIA ADENOPHYLLA Wall.; F. B. I. iii. 164. 
Chittagong. 
431. Lasianthus Jack. 
Shrubs, often fetid; branches terete with compressed nodes ; 
leaves opposite, distichous; stipules interpetiolar, usually wide. 
Flowers small, in axillary, rarely pete fascicles, heads or 
cymes; bracts present or absent. Sepals connate in a short ovoid | 
or oblong calyx-tube; limb persistent, shart or long, 3-6- -toothed, — 
rarely truncate. Petals 4-6, connate in a funnel-shaped or hypo- x 
linear or ovate-oblong, often apiculate. Carpels connate in & — 
4-9-celled ovary; ovules linear, basal, solitary in each cell; style 
short or long; stigmatic arms 3-9, short, obtuse. Fruit as 
drupe with 3-9, 3-cornered, 1-seeded pyrenes. Seeds nattows 
testa membranous; albumen fleshy ; embryo cylindric. 
Calyx-limb toothed ; teeth linear or subulate-lanceolate ; flowers in sessile 
cymes :— " 
Stipules ovate, acute; calyx-teeth linear, ciliate; corolla y ellowish 5 
bracts ovate-lanceolate, the outer large and leafy ; drupes villous, blue, 
lar, anocarpus: 
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Stipules linear-lanceolate; calyx-teeth subulate-lanceolate ; 
white ; bracts subulate ; drupes glabrous, small WM flowers 
Calyx-limb tone, subentire ; stipules selnelae: ‘eaminete 
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eatus. 
1007. Lastanraus cyanocarpus Jack.; F. B. I. iii. 179. 
Chittagong 
An evergreen bush. 
1008. Lastanrnus Watuicum Wight; F. B. I. iii. 180. 
Chittagong. 
shrub. 
1009. Lastanraus truncatus Bedd.; F. B. I. iii. 189. 
A shrub. 
allichii. — 
