. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 342 LIII. LYTHRACEJE [Crypteronia escent, 1. opposite, often fabcicled on ariested branclilets, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, obtuse, 1-3 m. long, nar- rowed into a slender petiole Ovary in- ferior, free part of calj^x campaiiTilate, cleft into 5-7 valvate lobes Petals inserted in tlie nioiitli of calyx-tube, crumpled in bud. Stamens oo, inserted at different levels below the pe- tals, antlier-cellh at- tached to the edges of a broad conne
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 342 LIII. LYTHRACEJE [Crypteronia escent, 1. opposite, often fabcicled on ariested branclilets, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, obtuse, 1-3 m. long, nar- rowed into a slender petiole Ovary in- ferior, free part of calj^x campaiiTilate, cleft into 5-7 valvate lobes Petals inserted in tlie nioiitli of calyx-tube, crumpled in bud. Stamens oo, inserted at different levels below the pe- tals, antlier-cellh at- tached to the edges of a broad connective. Carpels in several tiers on the inside of the hollow receptacle, here called calyx- tube (bee remarks on 1). 806 under Vomhre- ta(*ea\ and Brandis r Flora 240), ovules numerous m each. Carpels coalesce early and form a laige globose indehi scent Iruit. crowned by the persistent calyx and containing under a coriaceous rind two tiers of cells, 3 in the lower, 5-9 in the upper tier. Numerous seeds in each cell, embedded in a sweet pellucid pulp Cotyle- dons foliaceous, spirally Pig-. MB.—Grypteronia pamculata, Blume. i Obdbe LIV. SAMYDACE^. GeuPli. 794. Trees or shrubs, 1. alternate, disticlions, stipules small. Fl. inconspicuous, regular^ generally bisexual. Calyx persistent, tube short, segments B-7, imbri- cate or valvate in bud. Petals none, or alternate with calyx-segments and similar to them in substance. Ovary free or lower portion adnate to calyx- tube, ovules numerous, attached to 2-4 parietal placentas. Cap&ule 2-4- valved, seeds numerous, attached to the middle of the valves. Embryo in a copious fleshy albumen. The 2 genera here described are included under Fiaeourtiacem by Warburg in Engler u. Prantl iii. 6a, p, 34, 50. Petals 0, fi. in axillary fascicles 1. Casi^aria. Petals present, fi in racemes or spikes ... .2 Homalium. 1. CASEARIA, Jacq.; EL Brit. Ind. ii. 591. Trees or shrubs, 1. alternate, distichous, stipules small, caducous. Fl. small
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