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\iti6a twisted or valvate ; stamens two, attached to the tube, iii-s 

 feluse ; anthers 2-celled, introrse, bursting longitudinally ; ovary 

 destitute of a hypogynous disk, 2-celled, 2-lobed at the apex j 

 ovules ascending or amphitropous, 1—2, rarely more, in each 

 cell ; style simple ; stigma 2-lobed ; fruit bibaccate or capsular ; 

 capsules 2-celled, bipartible, cells indehiscent ; seed exalbumi- 

 fibus ot with sparing albiimeii, testa often tuttiid; embryo 

 straight ; radicle inferior. — Erect or scandent shrubs : leaves 

 opposite, rarely alternate or often unequally pinnate; leaflets 

 3-5-7, or sometinies, by abortion of the lateral leaflets, reduced 

 to one, but then on a jointed petiole, indicating its compound 

 nature; flowei's coiymbose or panicled; pedicels opposite, l-* 

 bracteate : corolla white or yellow, often fragrant. 



GENUS I. CHONDROSPBRMUM. 



Siandria Itlonos^ia. Sex: Syrti 



Deriv. From Chondrbs, a lump, and SpeffUa, seed : the tatm 

 of the seeds. 



Gen. Char. Calyx urceolate, 4-toothed ; teeth lanceolate, acute^ 

 ^ith purple edges : corolla fnnnel-shaped, rather fleshy, having a 

 large obscurely 4-sided tube which is longer than the calyx and a 

 4-paTled spreading limb, which is longer than the tube ; segments 

 linear-clavate, blunt, vertical, and thickened at the apices : throat 

 Closed by the anthers ; stamens 2, inserted above the base of the 

 tube ; anthers fleshy, with 2 marginal cells situated between the 

 S opposite fissures of the border, hardly (elevated above the tube $ 

 •ovary ovate, 2-ceUed : ovule solitary^ 



(i) C. tAURiFOtiHM. {P'oighi.) 



ident. Voight. Hort. Calc. p. 348. 



Syn, C. smilacifolium, tt^all, — Chionanthus smilacifolius, J^tlt. 

 Roxb.flqr. Ind. Ed. Car. I. p. 108. 



Spec* Char. Rambling shrub : leaves opposite, eoriatieous^' 

 paler beneath, waved : panicles axillary and terminal, brachiate : 

 flowers small, gresnish-yellow. 



Chittagong, flowering in April and May, 



