. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 800 XLVII. SAXI fcm AGACE^ [Iiibts pedicelj lower pedicels longer tliaii upper. Berries black, \ in. diam., very aromatic. 8. E. Griffithii, Hook. f. & Thorns. Sikkiiii 10-13,000 ft. Bhutan. L. sharply serrrate, pubescent on the nervet. beneath, racemeblax, 3-6 m. long, pendent, bracts J-^ in., linear, longer than pedicels, berries red. 0mm XLVIII HAMAMELIDACE^. Gen. PL i. 664, {HainamcJidece.) Trees or shrubs, 1. alternate; stipules usuall
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 800 XLVII. SAXI fcm AGACE^ [Iiibts pedicelj lower pedicels longer tliaii upper. Berries black, \ in. diam., very aromatic. 8. E. Griffithii, Hook. f. & Thorns. Sikkiiii 10-13,000 ft. Bhutan. L. sharply serrrate, pubescent on the nervet. beneath, racemeblax, 3-6 m. long, pendent, bracts J-^ in., linear, longer than pedicels, berries red. 0mm XLVIII HAMAMELIDACE^. Gen. PL i. 664, {HainamcJidece.) Trees or shrubs, 1. alternate; stipules usually'deciduous, liairs mobtly fascicu- late or stellate. FL in compact heads or spikes, usually bracteate. Calyx- tube more or lesb adnate to ovary, petals 4-od, occasionally none. Ovary 2-celled, styles 2, usually persistent, ultimately divaricate. Capsule woody, loculiciclally dehiscent, often also imperfectly dehiscing septicidally. Seeds 1 in each cell, or numei'ous, in which case the lowest only is fertile. Testa shining, embryo straight, cotyledons flat, albumen usually thin. (No species in the Western Peninsula.) In 1886 GrifEth discovered that the Indian Geneva of this Order are dibtingui^hed by bordered pits on the walls of wood-fibres, resembling the bordered pits of Coniters (Asiatic Researches xix. 95,99,102), and this is now recognized as an important character of HamamelldacecB. These wood-fibres have thick walls and a small Innien. The medullary rays are narrow (1 or 2 cells wide) the vessels small, and the wood paren- chyma is of no importance. A. Ovules solitary in each cell. Petals 0. Leaves deciduous, crenate, fi. bisexual in involn- crate heads 1. Parroiia. Leaves persistent, entire, fl. polygamous Ovary superior .... Ovary half-inferior Petals 4 or 5. Leaves deciduous, seriate . Leaves persistent, entire . B. Ovules several in each cell. Leaves entire, sometimes 3-cuspidate at the apex stipules large, coriaceous .... Leaves serrate, stipules usually deciduous
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