. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 172 XXXV. EHAMKACEiE [Zlzyijliiia A straggling deciduous shrub, often climbing, occasionally a small tree, trunk often 2-3 ft. girth, armed with short recurved, often solitary spines, bark dark brown or black, exfoliating with rectangular scales. Branchlets, inflorescence, young spines and underside of leaves densely clothed with ferru- gineous or grey tonientum. L. ovate or elliptic, from an oblique often cordate base, blade 2-5, petiole \ in.
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 172 XXXV. EHAMKACEiE [Zlzyijliiia A straggling deciduous shrub, often climbing, occasionally a small tree, trunk often 2-3 ft. girth, armed with short recurved, often solitary spines, bark dark brown or black, exfoliating with rectangular scales. Branchlets, inflorescence, young spines and underside of leaves densely clothed with ferru- gineous or grey tonientum. L. ovate or elliptic, from an oblique often cordate base, blade 2-5, petiole \ in., basal nerves 3, rarely 4 or 5, prominent, as well as the sec. n. along midrib, and on the outside of the lateral nerves. Cymes large, pedunculate, axillary and terminal, forming a long compound generally drooping panicle. Petals none. Drupe \ in. long, stone crustaceous, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Subliimalayaii tract from the Ganges eastward, ascending to 2,000 ft. Beliar, Central India, Western Peninsula. Bnrma, (Shan Hills to 4,000 ft.). Fl. Ceylon. 14. Z. funiculosa, Ham. Assam, Cacliar, Khasi lulls, Upper Bni^ma (Griffith). Glabrous. L. shining elliptic, acuminate, blade 8, petiole \ in. long, transverse (tertiary) nerves parallel, very nximei*onb ; a few faint sec. n, on the outside of tlie outer basal nerves. Fl. J in. across. 4. RHAMNUS, Linn.; M, Erit Ind. i. (138. Shrubs or trees. L. serrate, alternate, in some species subopposite. stipules small, mostly deciduous. Fl. often , calyx segments inside keeled, or with a prominent line, petals sometimes wanting, disk thin, clothing the calyx tube, petals and stamens inserted on its edge. Ovary free, 3-4-celled, narrowed into a 3-4-cleft style, stigma papillose, obtuse. Drupe on the persistent but not enlarged base of calyx, pyrenes 2-4, 1-seeded. Cotyledons flat, or with recurved margins, often green, radicle short. Species 60-70, mostly in the northern temperate zone, some on hills within the tropics. A.
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