. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Anti8tro])he] LXYII. 1. A, oxyantha, "Wall. Kliasi liills. Malay Peninsula. A single-stemmed slirub, witli horizontal brandies and very dark foliage. L. membranous, glabrous, lanceolate, blade 5-7, pet. slender i-J, petalb J in. long. "Buds long acuminate, sepals, petals and ovary glandular-dotted. "2. A. serratifolia, Hook. f. {Ardida serrafifoUa, Bedd. Ic. Ind. Or. t" 113). Young slioots and 1. beneatb along th
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Anti8tro])he] LXYII. 1. A, oxyantha, "Wall. Kliasi liills. Malay Peninsula. A single-stemmed slirub, witli horizontal brandies and very dark foliage. L. membranous, glabrous, lanceolate, blade 5-7, pet. slender i-J, petalb J in. long. "Buds long acuminate, sepals, petals and ovary glandular-dotted. "2. A. serratifolia, Hook. f. {Ardida serrafifoUa, Bedd. Ic. Ind. Or. t" 113). Young slioots and 1. beneatb along the nerves rusty tomentose, I. sharply serrate, petals ^ in. long. Amblyantliopsis memtoanacea, Mez (Ardi&ia memhranacea, Wall). Khasi hills. Cachar. A bmall almost herbaceous shrub, 1. thinly membranous, glabrous, lanceo- late, crenate, underside with numerous black glandular dots. Fl. small, in pedunculate axillary umbels, corolla-lobes round, emarginate, anthers free, basiiixed, filaments as loni> as anthers, ovary obovoid. 0, AEGICERAS, G^rtn.; M. Brit. Ind. iii. 533. A. majus, Gfsertn. (probably the only species); WigLt 111. t. 146 ; Bedd. Man. t. xix.—Syn. A. cornicylafa^ Blanco. Vern. Ktdsij Klialshi^ KoUsJiaj Beng ; Kanjala, Mar.; Butaletj Burm. A large evergreen glabrous shrub or .small tree, gregarious^ coppices well, bark grey. L. scattered, coria- ceous, obovate, blade 2-3, nar- rowed into pet. I in. long. Umbels many-fid. at the ends of branches usually naked be- low, with a few 1. below the umbel, pedicels slender. FL white, fragrant, sepals and cor- olla-lobes twisted in bud, the right hand edge overlapping, corolla |-V in. long, lobes refiexed. Anther-cells trans- versely septate. Ovules num- erous, in several tiers on the globose placenta. Fr. cylindric, curved, acuminate, 1-2 in. long, seed one, same shape as fr., albumen none. The seed ger- minates within the pericarp on the tree, sending down, a long radicle. Bea coast and banks of tidal rivers, Sind,
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