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Title: Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire
Identifier: CUbiodiversity690553 (find matches)
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Brandis, Dietrich, Sir, 1824-1907
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: London : A. Constable & Co. , Ltd
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Mann Library, Cornell
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88 XX. STEECULIACEiE (EviolcBna dense silvery or tawny pubescence. FL in large terminal panicleb, bracteoles at a distance from the flowers, minute, dentate, early deciduous. Sepals 1 in.,
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Fi(.. 42.—Eriolaena cxuinquelocularis, Wight. FL, fr. \. style hairy, capsule ovoid, 1 in, long, valves slightly tubercled, at times quite smooth. "Western Peninsula, chiefly on the west side, from Bombay southwards. Fl. July, August. B, Bracteoles entire or nearly so, petals visually 4. 6. E. spectabilis, Planchon.—Syn. Walliclila spectabllis, DC. in M4m. Mus. Paris, x. (1823) L 6. A small tree, young shoots and under side of leaves with short grey or tawny pubescence, PI. in large terminal panicles, involucre of 2-4. linear rarely dentate bracteoles ^ in. below flower. Sepals 1J in., as a rule 4, petals 4, stamens 40-50, style hairy below, glabrous above. Capsule 1;- in. long. Nepal, Manipur, abundant in oak forests at 3,500 ft., Mogok in Upper Eurma 4,500 ft.j on open exposed slopeb with Kyclia calyHna. Fl, April, May, 4. HELICTERES, Linn.; PL Brit. Ind. i. 365. ShrubSj rarely trees. Fl. bisexual. Calyx tubular, more or less equally 5-clef t. Petals 5, clawed, usually zygomorphic. Stamina! column adnate to gynophore, bearing 5 or 10 anthers. Ovary'5-lobed, 5-celled, several ovules in each cell. Pruit carpels 5, opening along their inner edge, straight or spirally twisted.* Albumen scanty, cotyledons folded round the radicle. Species 40, tropics of both hemispheres. A. Pruit spirally twisted. 1. H. Isora, Linn.; Wight Ic. t. 180. Vern. Maror-phal, Kajpasi, Hind.;
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