664 BENGAL PLANTS. 
5, rarely 4, connate in an inferior calyx, imbricate, often ag 
at the base within. Petals 5, rarely 4, connate in a rotate 
hypocrateriform corolla; lobes spreading, contorted, and shes 
ikea} 
throat, or mouth of the corolla; filaments usually short; anther- 
oblong, ee or sagittate, saad eer: ; connective sometime 
adnate to stigma; cells 2, sometimes produced downwards 4» 
empty spurs; dehiscence longitudinal; pollen granular. Dis’ 
annular, cupular or glandular, sometimes occluding the ovary, 
occasionally absent. Carpels 2, connate in a 1-celled ovary wit) 
2 pari ary with 2 axial placentas, or only par 
tially connate or free; style simple, or styles 2, free at the ba: 
but united above, always thickened at ne top; stigma 2-fid, acu'« 
i r few or many, and thes 
fleshy drupe, berry or samara; 2 drupes, berries or follicles. 
Seed polymorphous, often siseed or aie by a tuft of long, silky 
hairs (coma); albumen hard, fleshy, or scanty or 0; embry 
i ledon: 
ms flat, concave, convolute, or twisted ; radic!o 
usually superior. 
*Anth pe £. 4h a: 
cells with rounded bases :— —{p. 665] 
Ovary of two wholly united carpels; fruit large, either indehiscer 
and pulpy, or (rarely) a capsule; seeds without wings or coma; 
corolla-lobes always overlapping to the left:— 
Corolla funnel-shaped; ovary l-celled; fruit dehiscent, a 2-valve:’ 
capsule ; seeds with fleshy albumen ; flowers large, 
, the anthe-— 
lamanda. 
Corolla salver-shaped ; dehi eshy or pulpy within :— 
Ovary 1-celled, with a ovules ; Ha without albumen ee 
Willughbeie. 
Ovary 2-celled, with axial ovules; seeds with fleshy albumen :— 
Unarmed shrubs, usually climbing; mouth of corolla with o 
ring of lobed scales ; ovules many in each cell of ovary : 
Melodinus. — 
‘Armed shrubs, ban erect ; mouth of corolla naked; ovules : 
1-4 in each cell of ovary Carissa : 
Ovary of two carpels, Parc united only by the style, but occasionally 
so united at their base (Rauwoljia) or throughout (Thevetia) ; it 
le throughout, the fruit indehiscent but not pulpy within :— 
