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. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Ternstroemia' XYI. TERNSTBOEMIACE^ 57 glabrous, obtuse or shortly apiculate. Ovary 2-3 celled, ovules 2, rarely 1 or more than 2 in each cell, pendulous from the apex. Seeds 2-4, testa bony albumen 0, embryo horseshoe-shaped. Species ' 30, tropical Asia and America. 1. T. japonica, Thunb.—Syn. T. gymnan- fheraj Bedd. Tl. Sylv. t. 91; Oleyera gymnan- fhera^ W. et A.; Wight Ic. t. 47. Vern. Kaymone, Kamoni, Mlgiris. A large tree, at high
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Ternstroemia' XYI. TERNSTBOEMIACE^ 57 glabrous, obtuse or shortly apiculate. Ovary 2-3 celled, ovules 2, rarely 1 or more than 2 in each cell, pendulous from the apex. Seeds 2-4, testa bony albumen 0, embryo horseshoe-shaped. Species ' 30, tropical Asia and America. 1. T. japonica, Thunb.—Syn. T. gymnan- fheraj Bedd. Tl. Sylv. t. 91; Oleyera gymnan- fhera^ W. et A.; Wight Ic. t. 47. Vern. Kaymone, Kamoni, Mlgiris. A large tree, at high elevations. Leaves crowded at the ends of branches, entire, 2-3 in. long, gradually narrowed into a petiole |-1 in. long, secondary nerves indistinct. Ped- uncles |~1 in., axillary, or more often above the scars of fallen leaves. M. pale yellow, corolla spreading |-| in. diam. 'Fmit f in. diam., tipped with persistent style, and sup- ported by bracteoles and sepals. Seeds 3-4, red. Sikkim 7,000-8,000 ft., ;i liills, Upper and Lower Burma, Nilgiris. Fl. December to June. Al&o Ceylon, China, Japan. 2. T. peEangiana, Choisy ; Kurz, F. Fl. i. 99. Andamans and Tenassei-im, Malay Peninsula, Cochinchina. Leaves 4-8 in., ohovate. PI. dioecious, nearly 1 in. across, anthers not apiculate. Fr. 1-| in. diam., seeds 4, covered by Fig. 24.—Ternstroemia japonica, a reddish pulp, resembling that of Bixa orellarm. Thunb. Seed cut open. |.. 2. ADINANDRA, Jack.; M. Brit. Ind. i. 281. Species 12, one African, one in China and Formosa, the rest in the Malay Peninsula and Indian Archipelago. 1. A. villosa, Choisy; Kurz, F. FL i. 100. A middle-sized tree, yoting branches, leafbnds, petioles, under side of leaves as well as back of sepals and petals clothed with long silky hairs. Leaves 4-5 in., coriaceons, shortly acuminate. Fl. axillaiy, mostly bisexual, on short pedicels, bracteoles caducous, some distance below the flower. Stamens 20-30 free, slightly attached to base of petals,
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