. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Vaceinium] T VTT'^ TPTfTn A HT? 3? 407 forest 7,500 ft. (Montague Hill, Febr. 1902;. A large tree, 1. approximate near the ends of branches, rigid, oblanceolate, blade 8-4 in. long, suddenly narrowed into a short stout petiol<^, sec. n. i^rominent. Eacemes on the old wood below the L, glabrous, bracts rod. I in. long, lanceolate, with prominent, very obliqtie nerves, edge fimbriate, imbri- cate and covering the buds, bracts at the base of pe
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Vaceinium] T VTT'^ TPTfTn A HT? 3? 407 forest 7,500 ft. (Montague Hill, Febr. 1902;. A large tree, 1. approximate near the ends of branches, rigid, oblanceolate, blade 8-4 in. long, suddenly narrowed into a short stout petiol<^, sec. n. i^rominent. Eacemes on the old wood below the L, glabrous, bracts rod. I in. long, lanceolate, with prominent, very obliqtie nerves, edge fimbriate, imbri- cate and covering the buds, bracts at the base of peduncle numerous, similar. Fl. 4- and 5-merous, red, on slender pedicelb, calyx-lobes triangular-lanceolate half the length of corolla. Corolla urceolate, ^ in. long, glabrous outside, minutely hairy inside, lobes short, recurved, antheis spurred, filaments clothed with long soft spreading hairs. B. L. large, racemes more or less pauicled. a. Western Species. 9. V. Leschenaultii, Wight Ic. t. 1188; Bedd. M. Sylv. ~Syn. F. rotund ifolium^ Wight 111. t. 139. Vera. luIaviCj Tarn.; Anditvan, Bad. A small or middle-sized tree, youngest shoots and inflorescence minutely pubescent, L ovate or nearly orbicular, i|-3 in., pet. short. Bracts caducous, calyx-teeth triangular, edges ciliate, corolla pink, J-| in. long, filaments hairy, anthers spurred. Nilgiris, abundant. Anamalai and Palni hills. Fl. Jantiarj^-June. Fr. edible.— Ceylon, common about 4,000 ft. 10. V. nilgherrense, Wight Ic. Western Ghats and adjoining hill ranges from Wainad southwards. A shrub or small tree, 1. lanceo- late, bracts large, less caducous than in 9, fl. white, calyx and corolla pubescent \\ ithout, h. Eastern species. 11. V. Donianum, Wight Ic. t. 1191.— Syn. F. ciffine, Wight Ic. t. 1100. A shrub or small tree, youngest shoots and inflorescence glabrous, 1. lanceolate, entire or minutely serrate, blade 2-3, pet. ^^ in. FL pink or white, bracts lanceolate, early decidu- ous, calyx-teeth oft
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