. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Anfiarib] C. MORAOEiB G15 A very tall tree, attaining 250 ft. trunk often buttressed, young petioles, and midrib velvety. L, glabrous or bairy beneath, elliptic-oblong, nate, entii^e or serrulate, blade 3-6, pet. ^ in. Fl. monoecious, ^ crowded on the surface of flat pedunculate and usually fascicled re- ceptacles, which are sup- ported by imbricating bracts, sepals 3-4, stamens 3-8, 5 solitary, enclosed in a pear- shaped involucre of numer- ou
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Anfiarib] C. MORAOEiB G15 A very tall tree, attaining 250 ft. trunk often buttressed, young petioles, and midrib velvety. L, glabrous or bairy beneath, elliptic-oblong, nate, entii^e or serrulate, blade 3-6, pet. ^ in. Fl. monoecious, ^ crowded on the surface of flat pedunculate and usually fascicled re- ceptacles, which are sup- ported by imbricating bracts, sepals 3-4, stamens 3-8, 5 solitary, enclosed in a pear- shaped involucre of numer- ous confluent bracts, perianth 0, ovary adnate to the in- volucre. Fr. red, velvet} fleshy, I in. diam. shoots, acu mi- Evergreen of tlie forests Western G-liats from Khandala soutliwardb. Wuntlio, Upper Burma. Eastern slopes of the Pegu Yoma (Kurz). FL Sept., Oct. Tenasserim. In tlie lower Thaungyin this tree towers over the trees of the dense ever- _ wh-ich have a mean of 200 ft. (Brand is, Attaran Report, 1860, p. 55). Bast very tough, made into ropes and sacks, the bottom of these being a section of the branch.— Ceylon, low country. Malay Penins. and Archip. green forest height. Fia. 190.—Antiaris toxicaria, Leschen ],. 9. STREBLUS, Lour.; FL Brit. Ind. v. 489. S. asper, Lour, (probably the only species); Bedd. Man. t. 26.—Syn. Epicarjpurics orientalis^ Blume; "Wight Ic. t. 1961. Vern. Stora^ Sahora, Daliia, Hind.; Poi, Kharota, Paraya, Mar.; PaJdci, Tel.; lEtli^ Kan.; Parayan^ Pira, Tarn.; Okhn^. Burm. A rigid shrub or small scraggy tree, all parts full of milky juice, branchlets hairy. L. elliptic or obovate, penninerved, irregularly dentate, rough on both sides with minute raised round dots, blade 2-4 in., pet. very short, stipules obliquely lanceolate. PL dioecious, cJ ia globose heads, perianth campanulate, deeply 4-fid, pubescent outside, segments imbricate, stamens long, inflexed in bud. $ solitary, on axillary usually fascicled peduncles, ^ in. long, perian
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