. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Sfm)iifiosk(] XXXI. OLACACEiB 149 Ceylon. 2. S. javanica, Blume. Tena&herini, Malay Peninsula. A middle-sized tree. L. oblong-lanceolate, blade 4-7, petiole J-1 in. SchLoepfla fragrans. Wall., Nepal, Assam, Khasi liillb, is a middle-sized tree, bark corky, wliitisli. L. lanceolate, blade 2-4, petiole i in Fl. golden-yellow, very fragrant, I in. long, in axillary racemes, pedicels slender, nearly as long as flower. Inrohicre immediately belo
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Sfm)iifiosk(] XXXI. OLACACEiB 149 Ceylon. 2. S. javanica, Blume. Tena&herini, Malay Peninsula. A middle-sized tree. L. oblong-lanceolate, blade 4-7, petiole J-1 in. SchLoepfla fragrans. Wall., Nepal, Assam, Khasi liillb, is a middle-sized tree, bark corky, wliitisli. L. lanceolate, blade 2-4, petiole i in Fl. golden-yellow, very fragrant, I in. long, in axillary racemes, pedicels slender, nearly as long as flower. Inrohicre immediately below \lie calyx, of 3 bracts, connate into a cnp. Calvx truncate, adherent to ovary. Corolla twice tlie lengtli of calyx, funnel-sliaped, lobeb 3, lanceo- late, stamens 5, adnate to the corolla, and opposite to its lobes, a tuft of hair above their insertion. Drupe supported by the persistent involucre, stone thin, striated, embry(i> minute in the apex of the fleshy albumen. Closely allied and perhaps not specifically distinct is: 2. S. acuminata, Wall. Kha^i hills. L. broader. I^l. J in., pedicels much shorter than flower. 3. S. GrifiatMana, Yaleton, Bhutan, is imi^erfectly known. 3. ANACOLOSA, Biume; FL Brit. Ind. i. 580. Evergreen trees or shrubs. FL o-T-merous, in axillary cymose fascicles. Calyx generally glabrous, cup-sbaped, indistinctly toothed, not accrescent. Petals free, thick and concave at base, stamens opposite to petals and con- cealed in the cavity, filaments sbort, flat. Drupe surrounded by the accrescent disk, stone cnistaceons, embryo minute at the apex of the fleshy albumen. Species 5 or 6, Indo-Malayan region. 1. A. densiflora, Bedd. M. Sylv. t. 138. Vern. Katfa vekkali, Kahnanl- kanij Mai. A lofty tree, wood brittle. L. oblong-lanceolate, base rounded, 4-5 in., petioles short. M. in dense axillary clusters, pale-yellowish, very fragrant. Petals densely bairy on the upper surface. Evergreen forests of the Anamalai hills and Travancore, ascending to 2,000 ft
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