. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. 270 CLASSIFICATION having a solid axis (rachis) lined externally by a crowd of very small flowers, either only male or only female. The inflorescence matures into an aggre- gate spurious fruit known as soROSis (see fig. 135). Artocarpus incisa, the Bread-fruit tree, a native of the Pacific islands, with pinnifid leaves, is occasion- ally cultivated in India. Tribe More^, including the genera of Moras, Streblus, Broussonetia, &c., is characterized by stamens inflexed in the bud. Mulberry or to'ont (Morus indicd) has dioecious flowers in long or short spi
. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. 270 CLASSIFICATION having a solid axis (rachis) lined externally by a crowd of very small flowers, either only male or only female. The inflorescence matures into an aggre- gate spurious fruit known as soROSis (see fig. 135). Artocarpus incisa, the Bread-fruit tree, a native of the Pacific islands, with pinnifid leaves, is occasion- ally cultivated in India. Tribe More^, including the genera of Moras, Streblus, Broussonetia, &c., is characterized by stamens inflexed in the bud. Mulberry or to'ont (Morus indicd) has dioecious flowers in long or short spikes; female perianth and bract accrescent, and succulent in the fruit. Fruit spurious, and consisting of achenes enclosed in accres- cent bracts and perianths, and "er) largely Cultivated for its leaves, which are used for feeding silk- worms. Paper Mulberry {Broussonetia papyriferd), a native of Burma, Malaya, and Polynesia, is planted occasionally. The fibrous bark of this plant is beaten out and worked up into a kind of cloth, and also a kind of paper. Streblus asper (shaorha) (fig. 239) is a rigid gnarled shrub, supposed to be the haunt of evil spirits. It has dioecious flowers with inflexed stamens, which on the slightest touch jump up and scatter a cloud of powdery pollen-grains. Nat. Order 7.—JuglandiacecB includes the English Walnut tree {Juglans regia), a native of Persia and the Himalayas; Engelh'ardtia spicata (fig. 240), a handsome tree of Khasi Hills and Chittagong, with its fruit adnate to the 3-lobed bract. Nat. Order 8.—Cupuliflorce includes the Oak tree {Quercus), the Beech tree (Fagus), and the Chestnut. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bose, G. C. London, Blackie & Son Ltd.
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