. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 202 XIJ. ANAOAEDIACEiE [Melanorrli(jea. cap bricate Petals 5-8, im- linear oblong, persistent and, as a rule, mucli enlarged in fruit. Stamens 5 or numer- ous, inserted on a thick hemisplieric or columnar disk. Ovary stalked, ob- lique, 1-celled. Pr. a dry drupe, more or less stalked. Species 6, Indo- Malayan. 1. M. usitata, Wall. PI. As. Ear. t. 11, 12; Brandis in Ind. Porester, i. (1876), 362. Vern. TJiitsi^ Burm. A large deciduous tree, yiel
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 202 XIJ. ANAOAEDIACEiE [Melanorrli(jea. cap bricate Petals 5-8, im- linear oblong, persistent and, as a rule, mucli enlarged in fruit. Stamens 5 or numer- ous, inserted on a thick hemisplieric or columnar disk. Ovary stalked, ob- lique, 1-celled. Pr. a dry drupe, more or less stalked. Species 6, Indo- Malayan. 1. M. usitata, Wall. PI. As. Ear. t. 11, 12; Brandis in Ind. Porester, i. (1876), 362. Vern. TJiitsi^ Burm. A large deciduous tree, yields the black Burmese lacquer or varnish from inci- sions made into the bark, while the tree is in leaf. Branch- lets, petioles, under- side of leaves and panicles softly tomentose. L. obovate or oblanceolate, blade 9-12, narrowed into a thick almost winged petiole |~1 in. long. PL white, petals pubescent, stamens many. Drupes red, J-| in. diam., stalk thick, \ in. long, by the oblong stellately spreading, enlarged petals, 2-4 in. long. Burma, Upper and Lower, oMeily in Eng forests. PL January-March. Siam to the Mekong river. M. laccifera^ Pierre PI. Por. Cochinch. t. 367, Cambodia, Cochin- china, yields a most valuable varnish, grows very rapidly, and can be tapped when two years old. Might be cultivated in Burma. 2. M. glabra, Wall. PL As. Bar. t. 283, Tavoy, Mergui. L. glabrous. Drupes on slender stalks 1~1J in. long. Pruiting petals linear or spathulate, 2-2-J in. long. Pia. 89.—Melanorrhoea usitata, Wall. J. 8. SWINTONIA, G-riff.; M. Brit. Ind. ii. 26. Evergreen trees. Leaves simple, quite entire, petioles long. i^l. bisexual or unisexual, in large terminal and axillary panicles. Calyx small, deeply 5-6- cleft, lobes rounded. Petals 5-6, persistent and much enlarged in fruit. Stamens 4^5, inserted on the thick fleshy disk. Drupe ovoid, coriaceous, not stalked, subtended by the enlarged petals. Species 7, Indo-Malayan. 1. S. floribunda, G-riff. Proc. Linn, Soc.
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