Centunculus.} MYRSINE#. 641 
Tirhut; Behar; Chota Nagpur; N. and C. Benga 
An annual procumbent herb with opposite, gland- dolled 
leaves and blue flowers. The scarlet-flowered form of 
the Pimpernel has not been met with in our area. 
516. Centunculus Linn. 
Small annual herbs ; leaves alternate or sais Flowers 
als 
nate in a 4-5- poe calyx. Petals 4-5, aa in a short, 
urceolate coro Stamens 4 or 5, adnate to throat of corolla; 
filaments fla sities d: anthers exserted. Carpels connate in a sub- 
globose ovary ; style filiform ; ovules numerous. Fruit a globose, 
cireumscissile capsule. Seeds many, peltate. 
1151. Cenruncunus TENELLUS Duby; F, B. I. iii. 506. 
Behar; W. Bengal; Chota Nagpur, 
A very small annual herb. 
Order LXXVII. MYRSINEZ. 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, undivided, penstelty 
gland- elses stipules 0. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or 
polygamo-dicecious, in cymes, racemes, Or umbels. Sepals con- 
nate in an inferior calyx, rarely somewhat + adnate to ovary; limb 
usually 5-, sometimes 4- or 6-lobed, gray sometimes slightly 
i x free ; 3-7 (usually 
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tudinal, rarely porous. Carpels connate in an oblong, freg, or rarely 
half-inferior, 1-celled ovary, tapering upwar 
ovules many, on a free central placenta ; style filiform or columnar ; 
indehiscent, 1- or, less often, several-seeded ly 
(4igiceras) a linear, acute, one- -seeded follicle. Seeds usually 
globose, excavated at the base ; albumen pitted or ruminate ; 
embryo transverse. 
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*Calyx neatly enclosing the many-seeded wae ; seeds albuminous 
[p. 642] : Mesa. 
