. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Casearia] LIV. SAMYDACEJ] 343 with alternating staminodes. Ovary free, 1-celled, ovules numerous, attached to 3-4 parietal placentas. Capsule succulent, 3-valved. Seeds numerous, with a fleshy usually coloured aril, embryo straight, cotyledons flat. Species 120 ; tropical regions of both hemispheres. Besin cavities, lined by thin-walled cells, in the leaves of most Indian species, visible ab transparent dots or lines. A. 'Fnll grown leaves glab
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Casearia] LIV. SAMYDACEJ] 343 with alternating staminodes. Ovary free, 1-celled, ovules numerous, attached to 3-4 parietal placentas. Capsule succulent, 3-valved. Seeds numerous, with a fleshy usually coloured aril, embryo straight, cotyledons flat. Species 120 ; tropical regions of both hemispheres. Besin cavities, lined by thin-walled cells, in the leaves of most Indian species, visible ab transparent dots or lines. A. 'Fnll grown leaves glabrous. 1. C. esculenta, Eoxb.—Syn. C. varians, Thw.; Bedd. M. Sylv. t. 208. Vern. 3Ion\ Mar.; Vella KunnaUj Mai. A tree, 1. thick, often coriaceous, quite entire, blade ir-Q^ pet. |-| in. long. El. glabrous, yV i^- lo^g? pedicel glabrous, longer than calyx. Fr. 2- or 3-valved, ellipsoid, |-| in. long. "Western' Ghats, from tlie Konkan southwards, mostlj' in evergreen foi-ests. Northern Circars, Sriharikot. Tenasserim. FL B S. Malay Peninsula Ceylon, moist and dry regions, ascending to 5,000 ft. 2. C. rubescens, Dalz Western Ghats, North Kanara to Cooig. A shrub, 1. coiiaceouh, petioles and midrib of yonng 1. red, pedicels pubescent. 3. C. glomerata, Eoxb.—Syn. C\ graveoUns. Dalz.; Brandis F. M. 243 ; Kanjilal E. M. 185. Vern. CMlla^ Hind.; Giridl^ Uriya ; GlIcM, Gond ; Bokhada^ Mar. A deciduous shrub or niiddle-sized tree, branches long, spreading, 1. more or less serrate, blade 4r~8, petiole |~} in. long, translucent glands (resin cavities) elongate and round. Fl 4- or 5-merous, -f-j-^ in. long, with an offensive smell, clustered on scaly tubercles, in the axils''of leaves or of fallen L, calyx pubescent, pedicel generally longer than calyx, glabrous or pubescent. Stamens 8 or 10, alternating with hairy linear scales, half the length of stamens or more. Fr, | in. long, 3-valved, glabrous. Aril orange. Snbhimalayan tract and outer ranges from the Chenab eastwards, ascen
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