. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Balsa modendron] V"VT7TTT â RTTT?QT?'P A HTP 3? 133 ing the pulp exposed, wliicli encloses tlie nuts, wliich are bony, 1-seeded and partially connate. Embryo straight, the radicle pointing upwards, cotyledons thin, crumpled and plaited. Species 10, India, Arabia, tropical and southern Africa. 1. B. Berryi, Arn.; Bedd. EL Syly. t. 126 ; Brandis, E. EL 65. A small fragrant, very thorny tree, branchlets spinescent, at right angles to. Fig. 68
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Balsa modendron] V"VT7TTT â RTTT?QT?'P A HTP 3? 133 ing the pulp exposed, wliicli encloses tlie nuts, wliich are bony, 1-seeded and partially connate. Embryo straight, the radicle pointing upwards, cotyledons thin, crumpled and plaited. Species 10, India, Arabia, tropical and southern Africa. 1. B. Berryi, Arn.; Bedd. EL Syly. t. 126 ; Brandis, E. EL 65. A small fragrant, very thorny tree, branchlets spinescent, at right angles to. Fig. 68.âBalbamodenclron Berryi, Am. J. branches. L. 3-foliolate, petioles slender, leaflets sessile, obovate, glabrous, generally entire, the terminal larger than the lateral ones. EL subsessile, fascicled, disk small, bearing G-S stamens, alternately smaller, the longer ones than calyx. Drupe in the male flower stamens longer opposite to petals, oblong, apiculate. Dry f orebts in the southern Deccan, cultivated as a hedge plant all over South India. Fl. February, March. Dry parts of Ceylon. 2. B. pubescens, Stocks, Hook. Journ. Bot. i. (1849) t. 9 (Commiphora Stochsiana, Engler) (Ba^i/a, Bai, Baluch.) Baluchistan and hills of South-Western Sind, as far south as Karachi, an unarmed pubescent shrub or small tree,leaves trifoliolate, geneially crowded on short arrested branchlets, distant on vigorous shoots and then often imparipinnate. Fl. 4-nieroub, stamens 8, equal. Drupe red, pulp orange-coloured. 3. B. Mukul, Hook.; Stocks in Hook. Journ. Bot. i. (1841)) t. 8. Brandis, E. El. 64. Vern. Gugal^ Sind, Eajputana. A stunted shrub or dwarfed tree, branches thick, spreading, branchlets often spinescent. Trunk knotty, the outer bark coming off in rough flakes, leaving exposed an inner layer, which is bright, shining, and peels off in rolls like thin paper. L. generally approximate at the ends of thick short arrested branchlets, obovate, almost sessile, the tapering base entire, the uppe
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