662 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Myxopyrum, 
537. Myxopyrum Bl. 
Large scandent shrubs; branches 4-angled; leaves opposite, 
large, coriaceous, 3-nerved, entire or toothed. Flowers small, 
yellowish, in many-flowered, axillary and terminal trichotomous 
panicles; bracts minute or 0. Sepals connate in an acutely 
4-lobed calyx. Petals 4, connate in a corolla, with tube longer 
than calyx; lobes concave, oblong or spathulate, induplicate- 
valvate in bud. Stamens 2, adnate to corolla-tube ; filaments 
short; anthers ovate. Carpels 2, connate in a 2-celled ovary ; 
ovules 1-2 in each cell, attached near base of inner angle; style 
very short; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit a subglobose 1-seeded, or 
obovoid 2-seeded berry, with crustaceous pericarp. Seed ascend- 
ing; testa thin; albumen horny; radicle inferior. 
1197. Myxopyrum smiactrotium Bl. oOB, Lie G18 
N. Bengal, Duars ; Chittagong. 
A scandent shrub. 
Order LXXXII, SALVADORACER. 
Trees or shrubs, unarmed or spiny. Leaves opposite, entire ; 
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