. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. A. Petals lanceolate or elliptic. 1. A. zeylanicus, Hook. fil. & Thorns.; Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 48 : Ann. iv. p. 43 t. 53. An enormous climber. Leaves coria- ceouSj quite glabrouSj shining, 3-6 in. long. Peduncles flat, bearing 1-4 fl. Petals coriaceouSj brownish, lanceolate, densely tomentose, the outer 1\ in. long, the inner a little smaller. Pipe car- l els sessile, ribbed, mucronate. Evergx-een forests of the Western Ghats, fiom Kana
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. A. Petals lanceolate or elliptic. 1. A. zeylanicus, Hook. fil. & Thorns.; Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 48 : Ann. iv. p. 43 t. 53. An enormous climber. Leaves coria- ceouSj quite glabrouSj shining, 3-6 in. long. Peduncles flat, bearing 1-4 fl. Petals coriaceouSj brownish, lanceolate, densely tomentose, the outer 1\ in. long, the inner a little smaller. Pipe car- l els sessile, ribbed, mucronate. Evergx-een forests of the Western Ghats, fiom Kanara southwards. Fl. November. Ceylon. 2. A. odoratissimus, R. Brown; Ann. iv. t. 55. A large scrambling glabrous shrub. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-lan- ceolate, 4-6 in. long. PL solitary or in pairs, greenish yellow, exceedingly fragrant, petals acute, minutely seri- ceous, 1|-1^ in. long. Ovaries glabrous. Pipe carpels 8-15, pyriform, apiculate, narrowed into a short stalk, ll-H in. long, yellow. Indigenous in Tenasserhn (Kui'z, F. PI. i. 31) and Ceylon, cultivated throughout India. Fl. H. and R. S. 3. A. Kurzii, Hook, ill. & Thorns.; Ann. iv. t. 47, a straggling or climbing deciduous shrub in the Eng forests of the Irawaddi valley (Nyane^ Upper Burma) Bi'anchlets, petioles, and nerves en the underside of leaves pubescent, petals •\ elvety obtuse | in. 4. A. crassifolius, Hook. fil. & Thorns.; Ann. iv. t. 51; Kurz, F. Fl. i. 30, an evergreen woody climber in Tenasserim. B. Petals fleshy, cylindxic clavate or triquetrous. 5. A. suaveolens, Blume; Kux^z, E. M. i. 32; Ann. iv. t. 61. A large climber. Leaves shining, acuminate, 2-4 in. long. Fl. fasciculate, on recurved flat woody peduncles, which sometimes lengthen out to 5 inches. Petals fleshy, tomentose, J-|- in., blade cylindric to clavate. Bipe carpels few, ellipsoid, glabrous, \ in. long. Silhet, Chittagong, Burma, Malay Peninsula. Fl. B. S. 6. A. Tbuxmamcus, A. D. C.; Ann. iv. t. 62, Manipur, Burma. Leaves 4
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