646 BENGAL PLANTS, [Sarcosperma. 
sometimes distinctly atonal the inner row imbricate, the outer 
valvate, persistent. Petals connate in a tube, shorter than the 
calyx, the lobes equal, as many or imes as many as calyx- 
tamens inserted on the corolla-tube, 1-seriate, and as 
many as = opposite it corolla-lobes, or 2—3-seriate and twice 
or thrice as many a rolla-lobes; filaments usually short; 
anthers diane hese: connective often produced ; staminodes, 
— present, alternate with stamens and corolla-lobes. Carpels 
nnate in a superior, sessile, 2-8-celled ovary ; ovules solitary in 
ets cell, usually arising from inner angle; style subulate ; stigma 
minute. Frwit a 1-8-seeded berry. Seeds ellipsoid s especially 
if more than one, compressed; testa usually crustaceous; hilum 
long; albumen 0 and embryo with fleshy eae or fleshy 
and embryo with flat cotyledons ; radicle small. 
Corolla-lobes and calyx-lobes equal in number 
Calyx-segments in one series only ; parts of the flower in whorls of 5; 
stamens as many as petals; staminodes as many as stamens and 
alternating with them ; seeds not albuminous :— 
owers sessile in branched panicles ; ovary glabrous; cells 1-2 
Sarcosperma. 
Flowers pedicelled in axillary fascicles ; ovary villous; cells 4-5 : 
Sideroxylon. 
Calyx-segments in two distinct series ; parts of the flower in whorls 
of 6 :— 
amens as many as petals; staminodes as many as stamens and 
oe pinin with them ; ovary-cells twice as many as petals; seeds 
uminou ...Achras. 
Stamens iis as many as petals; ae 0; ibe -cells a8 
many as petals; seeds not albuminou opsis. 
Corolla-lobes more numerous than sain toile ovary-cells as pet a8 
calyx-lobes :-— 
Staminodes none; stamens about 2-3 times as many as corolla-lobes, 
in 1-3 series; corolla-lobes 8-14; calyx-lobes and ovary- -cells 4 or 6; 
ais Sanilac 
Staminodes 6 or 8; stamens also 6-8, fewer than corolla-lobes ; corolla- 
lobes 18-24, in 2-3 series ; calyx-lobes and ovary-cells 6 . i 
albuminous musops. 
521. Sarcosperma Hook. f. 
Trees; leaves subopposite, oblong, acuminate, coriaceous; 
stipules caducous, Flowers small, fascicled on the branches of 
