Trees, shrubs or herbs, rarely scandent, sometimes thorny, with simple entire opposite or whorled leaves, often with gland-pits in the axils of the secondary nerves, and with inter-petiolar or intra-petiolar usually connate stipules, or leaves whorled without. stipules. Flowers small or minute to very large, solitary or in variously formed inflorescences. Ovary inferior closely invested by the hypanthium, which usually bears a toothed or lobed calyx. Corolla gamopetalous, regular, 4—5-merous “or rarely lobes up to 12, estivation various.
Stamens usually as many as the petals, sometimes fewer where the petals are more than 5, inserted in the tube or mouth of the corolla, anthers 2-celled, usually dorsifixed, sometimes sessile. Disc epigynous, usually annular or swollen. Ovary usually 2-celled, very rarely I-celled (Gardenia), rarely 3—9-celled. Style simple or cleft. Ovules | or more in each cell, usually attached to the septum ; on parietal placente in Gardenia, Fruit various. Seeds with fleshy or horny albumen. Embryo straight or curved, cotyledons usually flat, sometimes semi-terete, radicle superior or inferior.
Books Info
| Books name | Botany of Bihar and Orissa-5 |
| Author | HH Haines |
| No Of pages | 315 |
| Publisher | Botanical Survey Of India |
| Publication | 1921 |
| Printed At | NA |
| Distributor | NA |