Volume 1

Flora of British India / by J.D. Hooker ; assisted by various botanists.

Date:
1875-1897
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Credit: Flora of British India / by J.D. Hooker ; assisted by various botanists. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Willd Sp. PI ii. 322; Roxh. Fl. Tnd. ii. 268. Usubis triphylla, Burm. Fl. Ind 89 t 32, f. 1. 0. Schmiedelia, Pers. Syn. i. 412. Schmidelia Kobbe, Lamhili ii. 443. t. 312, f. 2. S. Cobbe i)C;. Prodr. i- 610: <k A Prodr 109; Grak Gat. Bomb. PI. 29 ; Wight III. i. 141 ; Wight Ic. t. 964 • Thwaites Enum. 55. Toxicodendrum Cobbe, Gcerin. Fruct. i. 207, t. 44 f' 5 O. serrata, Roxh. Cor. PI. i. t. 61; Fl. Ind. ii. 266. S. serrata, nb 'i.e.: Wight III. i. 141; W. & A. Prodjr. 110; Berdh. Fl. Audral. i. 455'- Wall. Cat. 8061 (0. malabarica, Hb. Madr.). S. raceinosa, Lmn. Mant. 67; Wall. Cat. 8059. O. Aporetica^ Roxb. Hort. Beng. 28 ; Fl Ind ii 264. Aporetica ternata, J. R. & G. Forst. Cfuiract. Gen. Ft.\d2, t 66 b. villosa, Roxb. Hart. Beng. 28 ; Fl. Ind. I.e. 265. S. villosa, Wvjht ic t'401; Thwaites I.e.; Wall. Cat. 8060. B.'Rheedii, Wight le t. 9Q4: ; &]nc. Neiiqh. Bot. 33. O. glabra, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 28; Fl. Ind. U 267. AUophyllus lanatus, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 88 ; Fl. Ind. 11. 263 S. distacbya, DC I c 610 S. Aporetica, Wall. Cat. 8058; Kurz %n Jouni. As. hoc. Bern 1870 ii. 74. S. glabra, WaU.Gat. 8057; Steud. Norn. ed.% n. 531. SVa ternata, (?. Forst. Fl. Ins. Austr. Prodr 7^ {17&6). S. dentata, Wall, ex Voigt Hort. Sub. Calc. 93. Schmidelia ^opbyUus ormtro- phioides, Herb. Roxb.) ; Wall. Cat. 8055. S. adeiiophylla. Wall Cai. 8063. rvestita, Wall. Cat. 8066. S. timorensis, HC Prodr. 1. 611. S. onentahs, Sw. Fl. Ind. Dec. ii. 666. S. ternata, Cambess. in Mem Mxi^. Par xvul 24. O. asiatica, Hort. ex Steud. Norn. ed. 2, ii. 2Z0.-Rheede Hort. Mai. v. t. 25. Assam, Silhet, Biema, and southwards through the Eastern Pexinsola. Western PenXula, from the Concan southwards. Ckylon.-Disteib. N. Austraha, Indian ^l^imdrt'retor on the low lands and near the coast a shruh sometimes of consi- derable size with a climbing habit. Bark grey or purple, spotted. Leaves very vari- able in size shape, margin, and surface. Leaflets 1-10 by i-4 m.; tennmal petiolules ranging up'to I'in., lateral ones very short Inflorescence 3-9 m.; flowers yellow-h 0 white, clustered, small; pedicels short. Fruit red shmmg, globose, i;?—The roo « Taid to be astringent; the ripe fruits are eaten by the natives. ^According to m^At ^- Arnott in iheivProdromus, ^^^opyXus tern.tu. Lour^ chinchinensis, DC. I.e. 611), and Uemella trifoha. Lour. I.e. 649 (- S. GemeUa, Lamo. I c.) appear to belong to this plant. \n exceedingly variable species, widely spread in India and the Archipelago, and peiis exTendTng' to Africa a'nd America.' f he following is a -gh key to the prin- cipal forms, which are, however, connected by various mtermediate Imks .— Racemes simple, solitary. Petals somewhat decimate. Leaflets oval or ovate. Glabrescent or somewhat hairy. rnr^moius Leaflets crenate-dentate. Bracts short ,eZaZ Leaflets serrate-denriculate. Bracts subulate ^^osul' Shoots and leaves very hairy • . Leaflets oval-oblong or lanceolate-acuminate. „]yiher Leaflets subentire or serrulate. Bracts short A„nrPtira Leaflets acutely serrate. Bracts long linear • ■ • • -^f-.^; Bacemes simple, 2 together. Petals not dechnate, but the place of the fifth petal vacant . RheediL Eacemes branched, sohtary .... . ■ EXCLUDED species OF ALL0PHTLD8 (Schmidelia). Allophtlus pinnatus, Boxh. Ic. t. 1407, is Otophora fruticosa, Blume. ScuMiDELiA (sp.), Wall. Cat. 8056, is probably Walsura viUosa HaW. S (OuNiTKOPHE) FCETiDissiMA, Wall. Cat. 8064. Cfr. Gynocardia. S iNTEGEiuuMA, Wall. Cat. 8065, is Evodia Eoxburghiana, Benth.