. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. BnujKum] XLIX. 305 1. B. gymnorhiza, —Syn. B. Rheedli, Wight Ic. t. 239 : Bedd. Man. t. xiv. Yern. Kankra^ Sundrib. A tree, attaining 80 ft., 1. thickly coriaceous, skinioi?, elliptic-lanceolate, not mucronate, pale beneath, blade 4-7, petiole 1-1 j in, long. FL solitary, axillary, deflexed, pedicel J in. long. Oalyx-lobes 10--14, linear, very acute, erect, ^-| in. long, petals deeply bifid, glabrous except at the hairy base
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. BnujKum] XLIX. 305 1. B. gymnorhiza, —Syn. B. Rheedli, Wight Ic. t. 239 : Bedd. Man. t. xiv. Yern. Kankra^ Sundrib. A tree, attaining 80 ft., 1. thickly coriaceous, skinioi?, elliptic-lanceolate, not mucronate, pale beneath, blade 4-7, petiole 1-1 j in, long. FL solitary, axillary, deflexed, pedicel J in. long. Oalyx-lobes 10--14, linear, very acute, erect, ^-| in. long, petals deeply bifid, glabrous except at the hairy base, ovary B-celled, style long. Fr. crowned by the slightly enlarged calyx-segments, which are as long as fruit. Tidal mai'blies of tlie Western Peninsula, Bengal, the Andamans and Burma. FL —Bark Ubecl m tanning. Africa to Australia and the islands of the Pacific. 2. B. eriopetala, Wiglit & Arn ; Wight Ic. t. 239 B. Malabar and Travancore, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. Cochinchina. Calyx-lobes 10, 1 in. long, exceeding the ribbed fr. Petals densely hirsute along the edges, from base to apex with silyery hairs. B. FL small, peduncles 3- or niore-fld. 3. B. caryopliylloides, Blume (including B. mahfharlra, Arnott) Quilon. Ceylon. Tenas&arim. Malay Peninsula and Archipalago. Laayes thinly coriaceous. Cymes axillary, pedunculate, 2-3-M., calyx-lobes J in. long, refiexed in fr. and about half itb length, i)etals with scanty hairs outside. 4. B. parviflora, "W. & A. Tidal forests of the Andamans and Tenasserim. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. Cymes axillary, erect, pedunculate, 2-5-fld, calj^x-tube cj^lindric, |, teeth ^^ in. long. Oyary 3-celled, fruit cylindric, ribbed, 1 in., radicle 4-5 in. long before fallmg. 5. CARALLIA, Eoxb.; FL Brit. Ind. ii. 439. Trees and shrubs, not litoraL FL small, sessile, in short trichotomous axillary cymes. Calyx produced into a short tube beyond the ovary, teeth 5-8, petals inserted with the stamens on the edge of a
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