656 ’ BENGAL PLANTS. (Styrax. 
axillary ; bracts inconspicuous. Sepals connate in a campanulate, 
truncate, or 5-toothed calyx, free or slightly adnate to base of 
ovary. Petals 5, connate in a short tubular corolla; lobes elliptic- 
oblong, imbricate. Stamens 10, 1-seriate, adnate to summit of 
corolla-tube; filaments short; anthers large, linear. Carpels 
connate in a nearly free ovary, at first 3-celled, often at length 
1-celled ; style subulate; stigma capitate; ovules few in each cell. 
Fruit a globose or ellipsoid, tough capsule, seated on the cup- 
shaped calyx, breaking up irregularly. Seeds by abortion solitary, 
rarely 2, erect; testa papery or hard; albumen fleshy, copious; 
embryo straight, with broad cotyledons. 
1181. Roxb 
STYRAX SERRULATUM Rox .; EF. I. ii. 415 var. aAGRESTIS 
F. B. I, iii. 589; E. D. s. 2981. 
N. Bengal, Duars. 
\ A small tree. “Beng. Kum-jameva. 
Order LXXXI. OLEACEA. 
Trees or shrubs, unarmed, erect or climbing. Leaves opposite, by 
very rarely alternate, simple, 3-foliolate or pinnate, entire or 
toothed; stipules 0. Flowers hermaphrodite, often dimorphous, — 
sometimes polygamous or diccious, regular, usually in 8-choto- — 
mous cymes or panicles, terminal or axillary, rarely fascicled or _ 
racemose. Sepals connate in a small truncate or 4-lobed, some- te 
times 5-6-lobed calyx, rarely 0. Petals rarely 0 or free, usually — 
4-6, connate in a gamopetalous corolla, with long or short tube; 
corolla-lobes or free petals imbricate or valvate. Stamens 2, a 
Seeds solitary or 2 in each cell, erect or pendulous ; testa thin or 
ny; albumen fleshy, horny or 0; embryo straight; radicle © 
inferior or superior. 
as seeps imbricate in bud, usually more than 4 in number; seeds 
not albumi ‘ 
us :—[p. : 
tFruit &® 2-lobed, or, by abortion, 1-lobed drupe ; scandent, rarely erect 
ae ar suberect, arabs, with either simple or compound leaves; seeds 
Giests madicle inferior (p. 65 asminum. 
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