. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. 192 CLASSIFICATION carpus two of the sepals enclosing the fruit enlarge into two wings, hence the name. A dark-coloured, thick, strong-smelling balsam called chooa is obtained by distilling the amber-coloured resin which exudes from wounds in the bark of Isauxis lancecefolia King, a tree that grows in Chittagong (mohal). Copal varnish is the resin of Vateria indica of South India. Nat. Order 24. Malvacece.—Herbs, shrubs, or trees, inner bark fibrous, juice usually mucilaginous. Leaves alternate, simple, palmi-nerved at leastat the base. Stipules 2, lateral,
. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. 192 CLASSIFICATION carpus two of the sepals enclosing the fruit enlarge into two wings, hence the name. A dark-coloured, thick, strong-smelling balsam called chooa is obtained by distilling the amber-coloured resin which exudes from wounds in the bark of Isauxis lancecefolia King, a tree that grows in Chittagong (mohal). Copal varnish is the resin of Vateria indica of South India. Nat. Order 24. Malvacece.—Herbs, shrubs, or trees, inner bark fibrous, juice usually mucilaginous. Leaves alternate, simple, palmi-nerved at leastat the base. Stipules 2, lateral, free. Flowers regular, usu- ally with a whorl of bracts or epicalyx at the base, forming a sort of exterior calyx. Sepals 5, gamo- sepalous, lobes valvate. Petals 5, adnate below to the staminal column, im- bricate, twisted. Stamens many, monadelphous, the column of stamens being adnate to the claws of the petals at the base. Ovary of 5 to many carpels, syncarpous; style single, passing through the middle of the hollow staminal column and dividing at the top into as many branches as there are carpels, each branch ending in a stigma; ovules i to many in each cell. Fruit of dry indehiscent cocci, or capsular. Seeds round or reniform, with scanty muci- laginous albumen. The Order is chiefly distributed in temperate and tropical regions. Common Indian genera are Sida, Abutilon, Urena, Hibiscus, Gossypium, and Fig. 166.—Longpitudinal Section of Flower of Jaba (Hibiscus Rosa-siiiensis). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bose, G. C. London, Blackie & Son Ltd.
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