. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Uvaria] lY. ANONACE^ 17 connective ovoid or truncate, obtuse, anther cells lateral. Ovaries numerous, ovules as a rule many, in two rows on the ventral suture. Toras (apex of pedicel) generally much enlarged in fruit. About 110 species, a few African, Australian, the rest in tropical and subtropical Asia. A. Full gi'own leaves densely tomentose beneath, 1. U. macrophylla, Roxb.; Wall. PI. As. Ear. t. 122 ; Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 81; Ann. 4. t
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Uvaria] lY. ANONACE^ 17 connective ovoid or truncate, obtuse, anther cells lateral. Ovaries numerous, ovules as a rule many, in two rows on the ventral suture. Toras (apex of pedicel) generally much enlarged in fruit. About 110 species, a few African, Australian, the rest in tropical and subtropical Asia. A. Full gi'own leaves densely tomentose beneath, 1. U. macrophylla, Roxb.; Wall. PI. As. Ear. t. 122 ; Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 81; Ann. 4. t. 10. Vern. Thdbioot-nice^ Burm. A large climber, branchlets and petioles rusty tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, sometimes broader towards the apex, base rounded or slightly cordate, upper surface glabrous, except the tomentose midrib and nerves, lower lax rusty-tomentose, 5-12 in. long. Secondary nerves 10-15 pair, prominent as well as tertiaiy nerves and intramarginal veins, Fl. 1| in. across, dark pur^Dle, in short axillary racemes, sometimes solitary, sepals rusty-tomentose. Eipe carpels glabrous, oblong, blunt at the ends, 1-11 in., stalks J-1 in. long, on the woody enlarged torus. Seeds numerous. Silhet, Chittagong, Burma. FL Also Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, Java. 2. IT. purpurea, Blnme; Ann. Bot. G-. Calc. iv, t. 12.—Syn. U. grandiflora, E,oxb. ; Wall. PL As. Ear. t. 121 {ThaUvot, Burm.). Burma and Malay Archipelago, South China. FL solitary, crimson or dark purple, 2-3 in. diam., on a thick pedicel -^-2 in. long, with 2 or 3 large ovate or rounded bracts. Ripe carpels cylindric, tomentose, 1^-21 in. long, pulp sweet, edible. 3. U". Hamiltoni, Hook. fil. & Thorns.; Ann. iv. t. 6. ISubhimalayan tract from Sikkim eastwards, Assam, Kliasi hills, Chota Nagpore (in ravines). Eastern Bengal, Upper Burma, Andamans. A powerful climber with brick red il., solitary or fasciculate, 1^-2^ in. across, pedicels 1 in. long, with a tomentose rounded bract. Rip
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