. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. {jfnetum] CXIII. ONETACEJ] 687 2. GNETUM, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 641. <Lotsy^ Life history of Gnetnm in Annales dii Jardin Botanique de Bniten- zorg, xvi. 46, 1899.) Climbing, one species erect, branches jointed and thickened at the nodes. L. opposite, quite entire, penninerved. M. unisexual, usually dioecious, whorled in the axils of a cup-shaped bract, usually surrounded with multi- cellular hairs (a belt of (always ?) imperfect $ fl. fr
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. {jfnetum] CXIII. ONETACEJ] 687 2. GNETUM, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 641. <Lotsy^ Life history of Gnetnm in Annales dii Jardin Botanique de Bniten- zorg, xvi. 46, 1899.) Climbing, one species erect, branches jointed and thickened at the nodes. L. opposite, quite entire, penninerved. M. unisexual, usually dioecious, whorled in the axils of a cup-shaped bract, usually surrounded with multi- cellular hairs (a belt of (always ?) imperfect $ fl. frequently above the ring of S fl.), on spikes, which are solitary or in dichotomous panicles, axillary or terminal. Male fl.: perianth fleshy, clavate, more or less 2-fid.; anther-cells 2, opening by terminal slits. Female fl.: one ovule with a single integument, prolonged into a tube, which has the functions of a style, with a lacerate mouth, enclosed in two bags, which may be regarded as an inner and outer perianth, the inner perianth wanting in flowers that remain sterile. Fruit resembling a drupe, consisting of the fleshy perianths, enclosing a hai'd seed. Species 15, tropical Asia, Africa, America and Pacific Fig. -G-netum scandeas, Eoxb. J, A. Ovary and fruit sessile. 1. a anemon, Linn.—Syn. Q, Brunonlanum, G-riff. Cachar. Manipiir. Mogaung, Upper Burma. Tenasserim. Penins. and Archip. A small or middJe-sized evergreen tree, 1. elongate-elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acuminate, blade 4-8, pet. J in. long. PL dioecious, female and pseudo-androgynous spikes on different trees, the imperfect female fl. of the latter without an inner perianth. ¥t, oblong, apiculate, i in, long, glossy, orange-coloured or red when ripe. The tree cultivated in the village groves of Java is dioecious. According to Karsten and Lotsy the ? fl. in the' pseudo-androgynous spikes, though often attaining a considerable size, are not ferti- lized, and do not produce mat
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