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Identifier: journalofbombayn221913bomb (find matches)
Title: Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Bombay Natural History Society
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Bombay, Bombay Natural History Society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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he stamens. Femaleflowers ovoid, sepals broad, obtuse, imbricate ; petals longer, con-volute: staminodes 6, minute; ovary ovate, three-celled, one-ovuled;style almost wanting ; stigmas 3, triangular. Fruit bright chocolatecoloured, when ripe ovate-globose, rather compressed, -J-f inch indiameter, surrounded at the base by the perianth bearing the stigmatanear the base. Seed subglobose, brown, with a rather deepcomplete furrow, and several other shorter ones. Testa obscurelychestnut-coloured, with veins arising from the groove near theembryo, and converging towards the base on the opposite face.Albumen solid, hornj^. Embryo basilar, conical, nearly one line long. Habitat.—Travancore, 2,500-6,000 feet on precipitous cliffs,local, but very common within its restricted areas. Flowers.—In June: fruit ripens 8-9 months afterwards.Illustration : Plate LV.—The slender thin-stemmed palm,photographed by Mr. Macmillan, grows in the Botanic Garden of JouBN, Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. Plate LVI.
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Bentinckia nicobarica, Becc. THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON. 463 Perandeniya. In the lower part of the stem the rings are notvisible owing to a thick crust of lichens. BENTINCKIA NICOBARICA, Becc. lUustraz. di ale. Palme viv. nelGiard. di Buitenz. 165. Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 418 ; Brandis Ind. Trees,647.—Orania nicobarica, Kurz in Journ. Bot. IV, p. 331, t. 171, f. 19-25. Description.—Trunk tall, 60-70 feet high, 9 inches in diameter,annulate. Leaves 5-8 feet; leaflets ^-2 feet, sessile, linear, cria-ceous, tip obtusely 2-lobed; petiole short; rhachis glabrous. Spadix l;^-2 feet long, decompoiuad, glabrous, branches andbranchlets inserted in woolly grooves of the rhachis; bracteolesdensely villous within. Female flowers: sepals and petals subsimilar,broadly ovate, obtuse, shining. Fruits tristichously arranged, globose, 1 inch long, scarlet.Seed ovoid-oblong, ventrally flat, dorsally convex, rugosely ribbed;albumen equable; embryo lateral and apical. Habitat.—Nicobar Is

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  • booksubject:Natural_history
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