. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 148 XXXI. OLACACEiE [ OlctQ^ Fl, C. S. Ceyloiij Oliina. 2. 0. Wiglitiana, Wall. Erect or climbing, evergreen forests on tlie west side of tlie Peninsula, from Nortli Kanara southwards. L. glabrous,. sliining, m., base Pkj. 68.âOlax scandens, Boxb. ^. 8-4 rounded. FL cream-coloured in axillary often compound corymbs, pedicels spreading, longer tlian half tlie flower, drupe nearly covered by the calyx. Closely allied is 3. 0. imtoricata, Roxb. Ch
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 148 XXXI. OLACACEiE [ OlctQ^ Fl, C. S. Ceyloiij Oliina. 2. 0. Wiglitiana, Wall. Erect or climbing, evergreen forests on tlie west side of tlie Peninsula, from Nortli Kanara southwards. L. glabrous,. sliining, m., base Pkj. 68.âOlax scandens, Boxb. ^. 8-4 rounded. FL cream-coloured in axillary often compound corymbs, pedicels spreading, longer tlian half tlie flower, drupe nearly covered by the calyx. Closely allied is 3. 0. imtoricata, Roxb. Chittagong, Tenasserim, Andamans, Indian Archipelago â¢, an unarmed climber, branch lets terete. L. 3-6 in., racemes distichous, the rather large bracts imbri- cating in bud. 0. merguens'is^ Planchon, Tenasseiim, Malaya, is not specifiGally different. 4 0. acuminata, Wall., Assam, Bhutan, Ivhasi hills, Silhet, Dacca, branchlets angled. L. lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, racemes few fid., shorter than or as long as petioles, drupe red, fleshy. 5. 0. nana, Wall., is a small under shrub in grass lands of the Subhimalayan tract and Bengal, with a large woody rootstock, which sends up shoots annually after the jungle fires, with subsessile â ous straggling lanceolate leaver and solitary axillary flowers on slender peduncles Xtmenia americana, Linn. (PlnU Kayi?i, Pinle Zi, Burma). A glabr shrub armed with short straight spines, on the coast of Tenasseium and the Andamans. Inland on dry stony ground in the Deccan; littoral in the tropics of both hemispheres. L. blunt, entire, lJ-2 in. long, turning black in drying. Fl. whitish, generally bisexual, ^ in. long, calyx cup-shajjed, d~5-toothed, j^etals revolute, on the upper surface densely bearded, stamens 8-10. Drupe ovoicl, 1 in. long, orange red when ripe, imlp edible, stone hard, 1-seeded. Ersrtliropaluni scaadens, Blume, Sikkim, Khasi hills, Manipur, Chittagong, Burma, Cochinchina, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, is a powerful wo
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