. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. METAMORPHOSIS 59 buds, leaves, stipules, or other morphological units. They are connected with the deeper parts of the members of the plant body from which they spring, and hence they are difficult to remove without injury to the plant. In Wood-apple or bael (see fig. 41), kath-bael {Feronia), bengchi or bench {Flacourtia septaria), nebu {Citrus), and in bagan-bilas {Bougain- villea) the spines are modified leaf-buds. In kantali- champa the recurved spines are modified peduncles or flower-buds, and the straight spines are terminal buds of stunted branches.
. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. METAMORPHOSIS 59 buds, leaves, stipules, or other morphological units. They are connected with the deeper parts of the members of the plant body from which they spring, and hence they are difficult to remove without injury to the plant. In Wood-apple or bael (see fig. 41), kath-bael {Feronia), bengchi or bench {Flacourtia septaria), nebu {Citrus), and in bagan-bilas {Bougain- villea) the spines are modified leaf-buds. In kantali- champa the recurved spines are modified peduncles or flower-buds, and the straight spines are terminal buds of stunted branches. In Rangoon Creeper {Quisqualis malabarica, a common garden climber) the leaves when mature shed their blades, leaving the petioles as spines. In kul, teshira- monsha, monsha, and babla the spines are modified stipules. In nag-phani (see fig. 26) the spines surrounded by short bristles probably modified leaves. The stems of pani-ala or pani amrha {Flacourtia Cataphracta) (fig. 62) are beset with big compound spines in their lower portion, the upper portion being free from them. Many plants are similarly provided with spines over the stem and leaves. These are outgrowths from the subepidermal tissue, and are not referable to any par- ticular member of the plant body, such as buds, leaves, stipules. Besides the spines, many plants, the Rose, are armed with prickles, which are epi- dermal growths, and can therefore be easily separated without injury to the parts on which they grow; or armed with glandular hairs, which are also epi- dermal growths, as in lal-bharenda or sayambara are. Fig. 6z.—Pani-ala or Pani-amrha {Flacourtia Cataphracta). 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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