640 BENGAL PLANTS. [Androsace. 
shaped tube; limb 5-, rarely 4-9-cleft; lobes imbricate or con- 
torted; corolla very rarely 0. Stame the corolla-tube 
opposite its lobes, or hypogynous where le 0, with sometimes 
alternating staminodes ; filaments usually short ; anthers 2-celled ; 
dehiscence oe ole Carpels connate in a 1-celled ovary, 
almost always superior; ovules many, usually amphitropous on a 
free-central eta ; seis long or short; stigma entire. Fruit 
a capsule, dehiscing transversely or by valves. Seeds few or 
many, usually angular, often sunk in the placenta; albumen 
fleshy or horny; embryo transverse. 
Corolla-lobes imbricated ; capsule dehiscing by valves......... Androsace. 
Corolla-lobes contorted ; capsule circumscissile :— 
a 5-partite, longer than the calyx ; leaves opposite ...Anagallis. 
Corolla 4-5-lobed, shorter than the calyx ; leaves alternate 
Centunculus. 
514. Androsace Linn. 
Regi rarely annual, low herbs ; leaves rosulate or imbricate 
on the branches. Flowers small, red or white. Sepals connate 
in a 5-lobed or 5-partite calyx. Petals connate in a short-tubed, 
greg or funnel-shaped corolla ; limb 5-lobed ; throat 
nnulate or with folds opposite the lobes. Stamens 5; anthers 
valiant included in the tube, obtuse Carpels connate in & 
globose ovary; style short. Fruit an sie or glo hikes 6 5-valved 
capsule, Seeds 2, rarely more, angular or subglobose ; embryo 
transverse. 
1149. ANDROSACE SAXIFRAGHFOLIA Bunge; F. B. I. iii. 496. 
irhut; N. and C. Bengal. 
An Seika herb 
515. Anagallis Tournef. 
Slender annual or perennial herbs; leaves opposite, quite entire. 
Flowers axillary, solitary, usted red or blue, rarely white; 
bracts 0. Sepals connate in a 5-partite calyx. Petals 5, connate. 
in a rotate, 5-partite corolla. i. 5, adnate to corolla-tube ; 
filaments villous. Carpels connate in a globose o ovary; style 
filiform ; ovules many. Frwit a globose, cireumscissile capsule. 
Seeds Goes peltate, plano-convex. 
1 AGALLIS ARVENSIS Linn.; F. B. I. iii. 506; E. D. 
A, 1034. 
