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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
CeimjKt) XXIX. MELIACEAE 141 Seashore and Mangrove swamps along the western coast from the Konkan southwards, Sundriban, Chittagong, Burma, Andamans, Ceylon. Fl. R. S. Malay Archipelago, Fiji islands, Africa, Australia. The leaves of young plants are elliptic-lanceolate, acute. 2. C. moluccensis, Lamk. (Xf/loca rim s G ra na f u m, Willd., Pus^ur, Smid.). Sundriban, Andaman&, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. Tropical Africa, Australia. A middle-sized tree, 1. 4-10 in. long, leaflets usually 2 sometimes 3 pair, thinly coriaceous, ovate from a broad base, acute. Panicles 3-5 in. long, blender with lax few-flowered branches, ii. pinkish yellow. Fr. 3-5 in. diam., 4-grooved, brown, valves woody. Kurz describes the flower as pentamerous. Beddomea differs from Carapa by petals 4-6 strongly imbricate in bud, anthers 5-6, cellb narrow, on a thick connective, ovary hair\^, 3-5-celled, cells with 2 ovulcb. 1. B. indica, Hook. f. "Western Ghats from Coorg to Cape Comorin. A large shrub, young shoots lepidote, leaflets 3, 3-7 in. long, fruit 1-1^ in. long, rough with close set rusty scales. 2. B. simplicifolia, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t, 135, "Western Ghats common, from South Kanara to Travancore. A small tree, leaflets solitary, 3-6 in. long, fruit oblong, size of a pigeon's egg^ acute at both ends, densely rusty-tomentose.
Text Appearing After Image:
Pig. QQ.—Carapa obovata, Blume. ;. 10. AMOORA, Eosb.; FL Brit. Ind, i. 559. Evergreen trees, leaves imparipinnate, leaflets oblique. EL polygamoiis, male fl. usually paniculate, fertile fl. often racemose or spicate. Calyx 3-5- partite. Petals 3 (4 in 2 species) thick, concave, strongly imbricated. Staminal tube nearly globose, anthers 3-10, included, in one row. Disk inconspicuous. Ovary 3-celled, cells 1-2-ovuled, stigma sessile. Capsule 3-valved or indehiscent, seeds 1-3, enclosed in a fleshy arillus.—Species 25, one Australian, the rest Indian and Malayan. A. Leaflets opposite. 1, A. Rohituka, W. <fc A.; Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 132. Vera, Sohaga, Oudh; Bandriphdl^ Nep.; Sikaroro^ Kol; TJiitni^ Burm. A middle-sized tree, with a beafVy crown, in Burma attains 60 ft., wood pale red, youngest shoots pubescent.. Leaflets 5-7 pair, 3-9 in. long, seoofidary nerves prominent beneath, 10-15 pair. FL sessile, <J in panicled spikes, ? in solitary spikes much shorter than leaves. Anthers 6, attached to the

Note About Images