. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 40 X. BIXACEiE [Flacourfia tlie Malay Archipelago, cultivated m India on account of its acid edible fruit. An unarmed evergi^een tree, leaves glabrous, 4-8 in., fl. bisexual, fiuit red, seeds 8-10. B. Leaves ovate or obovate, lengtli of Made not more than twice its greatest width. 5. F. sepiaria, Eoxb. Oor. pi. t. 68. Vern. Tambat^ Mai\; Mlrklij Kan. A mnch-branched shrtib or small tree, the branchlets as a rule terminating in sharp rigid spine
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 40 X. BIXACEiE [Flacourfia tlie Malay Archipelago, cultivated m India on account of its acid edible fruit. An unarmed evergi^een tree, leaves glabrous, 4-8 in., fl. bisexual, fiuit red, seeds 8-10. B. Leaves ovate or obovate, lengtli of Made not more than twice its greatest width. 5. F. sepiaria, Eoxb. Oor. pi. t. 68. Vern. Tambat^ Mai\; Mlrklij Kan. A mnch-branched shrtib or small tree, the branchlets as a rule terminating in sharp rigid spines, which bear leaves and flowers. Leaves 1-2 in., glabrons, obovate from a cuneate base. Fl. yellowish, dioecions, styles 3-4, distinct. Di-npe purple, \ in. diam. Bengal, Sxindarbaiis, Chittagong, Burma. Scrub -on the Coromandel coast, Beccan, Kanara, Knrg, Nilgiris, Travancore. Fl. C S. Ceylon, Java. 6. F. Ramontchi, L'Heritier; Brand. T. M. 18: Wi^bt Ic. t, 85.—Syn. F, sapicla, Eoxb. Oor. PI. t. (59. Vern. Kafcli, Hind.; KaJicin, 0. P.; Garg6fi\ Berar; Mehrlo^ Kol.; KaiMtn, Merwara; Kanker^ Banswara ; Paker^ Kaker^ Bhekal^ TamJafj Mar.; Gapra^ Coorg. A large shrub, under favourable conditions a moderate-sized tree, with a short trunk and thorny branches, wood tough, close-grained. Leaves decidu- ous, 1-5 in., variable in shape from ovate to obovate, glabrous above, more or less pubescent beneath. Fl. yellow, dioecious, in short, simple or compound racemes, generally pubescent. Styles 5-11. Drupe \ in., dark-red or black, edible, stones superposed in two tiers, Subhimalayan tract, from the Pvmjab eastwards, Eaj- pntana, Behar, Central India, the Deccan and the Penin- sula, mostly in dry open places and on rocky hills. Manipur. Dry and Eng forests of the Irawaddi valley (Eluriz, F. FL i. 75). The leaves fall in January-Febriiary, Pia. 16.—Flacourtia. the new foliage appears April and May. PL ISTovember- Bamontchi, L'H6rit, J. March. Also in Ceylon and the Malay Archipelago
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