. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Parrofia] V III. )A0E^tLi 301 stamens nsually 15, free. Capsule I in. long, Avoolly, with stellate tomentiim, girt by the adhering calyx-tuhe, 2-celleclj the cells separating when ripe^ each cell with one seed in a hard horny endocarp, which ojDens at the top hj two rostrate valves. Embryo oblique in copious albumen. Kuram valley (abundant, used for tlie wicker work, of whieli tlie walls of houseb consist). Ka&hmir and Cham
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Parrofia] V III. )A0E^tLi 301 stamens nsually 15, free. Capsule I in. long, Avoolly, with stellate tomentiim, girt by the adhering calyx-tuhe, 2-celleclj the cells separating when ripe^ each cell with one seed in a hard horny endocarp, which ojDens at the top hj two rostrate valves. Embryo oblique in copious albumen. Kuram valley (abundant, used for tlie wicker work, of whieli tlie walls of houseb consist). Ka&hmir and Chamba, 8,800-8,500 ft. PL Marcli-Ma\% the leaves turn yellow before failing. Tiie twigs are used for binding and basket work, tliey are the best material for making the twig bridges to cross the rivers of the Punjab Himala^^'a. Distylium indicum, Benth. Khasi hills. A small tree, 1. coriaceous, 3-5 in., acumi- nate, stipules lanceolate, deciduous. PL polygamous, in short ujoright axillary racemes. Fruit (unripe) lanceolate, I in. long, densely stellate-tomentose. Sycopsis GriffitMana, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiii. t S. Khasi hills. Leaves coriaceous, 2-4 in, acuminate, stipules minute, caducous. Fl. unisexual, in small axillary heads, ^ and $ in the same head, ovary, lower half adnate to, upper half closely surrounded by calyx-tube. Captsule nearly globose, \ in. diam., stellately tomentose. 2. CORYLOPSIS, Sieb. & Zucc.; M. Brit. Ind. ii. 427. (Species 4-6, all except the following in China and Japan.) C. him al ay an a, G-riiF. in Jonrn. As. Soc. xxiii. 641.; Ic. PL As. t. 633. A large shrub or small tree, branchlets^ petioles and underside of leaves softly stellate - tomentose, 1. broad- ovate, often nearly orbicular, serrate, base more or less cor- date, sec. n. oblique, nearly straight, parallel, the outer branching on the outside, sti- pules lanceolate, almost glab- rous, deciduous. El. bisexual, pentamerous, yellow, scented, in drooping densely silky catkin- like spi
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