. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Diospyros] IjXIX. ebenaceje 429. Fm. 164. Biospyros nilagirica, Becld. ^, glabi'oiis, shining, ovate, blade 3-6, pet. | in. M.: ^^ in small rusty tomentose cymes with large long-ciliate bracts, cal. cylindrical, nearl}?- truncate, corolla tubular, tomentose outside; ? solitary, calyx cupshaped, truncate, fr. ovoid- cylindric, 1 by I- in., supported by the cup-shaped slightly enlarged calyx, albumen xmiform. Evergreen forests of the Western Ghat
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Diospyros] IjXIX. ebenaceje 429. Fm. 164. Biospyros nilagirica, Becld. ^, glabi'oiis, shining, ovate, blade 3-6, pet. | in. M.: ^^ in small rusty tomentose cymes with large long-ciliate bracts, cal. cylindrical, nearl}?- truncate, corolla tubular, tomentose outside; ? solitary, calyx cupshaped, truncate, fr. ovoid- cylindric, 1 by I- in., supported by the cup-shaped slightly enlarged calyx, albumen xmiform. Evergreen forests of the Western Ghats from the Konkan bonthwardis. 3?L March. Ceylon. Heartwood regularly streaked with black bands, somewhat like Calamander wood, the produee of D. epicesita, Thw., a large tree of the moist low country of Ceylon. /3, (J fl. in pedunculate panicles. 4 D. paniculata, Dalz.; Bedd. Ic. t. 125. A middle-sized, at times a tall tree, glabrous, except inflorescence. L. chartaceous or coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, blade 4-7, pet. broad | in. long, closely reticulate raised veins between the sec. nerves, conspicuous on both surfaces. El. large, pentamerous, calyx of both sexes large with reflexed edges, corolla hairy. (^ in long drooping bracteate pubescent panicled cymes, bracts large, foliaceous, peduncle 1|- in. long, stamens 20, glabrous in pairs. ? solitary, sometimes in pairs, on bracteate pedicels | in, long. Er. hairy while young, ovoid 1| in. long, supported by the enlarged foliaceous calyx. Evergreen forests along tbe Western Ghats, from the Konkan southwards. Common in Travancore. El. Dec-March. Wood streaked with black. {!)) Corolla of ^ fi. hairy, 1. hairy. 5. B. pruriens, Dalz.; Bedd. lo. t. 129. Western Ghats from North Kanara south- wards, in evergreen forests, very common throughout the Wainad. Ceylon. A small or middle-sized tree, branch lets villous with long yello-v^ish hairs, 1 chartaceous, elliptic-oblong, 2-4 in. long when full grown, softly tomentose beneath,
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