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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    Leaves 3-7 by 1-2 in.; petioles -J-l§ in., pubescent. Panicles ranging [up to 2 ft. in width. Flowers xz—n in- diftm-; bracts linear, shortly pubescent, free ; those close to the fruit obcordate-orbicular, venose, 4-f in. diam., rose-coloured. Fruit \ in. diam. 21. D0D0N;SA, Linn. Shrubs rarely arborescent. Leaves alternate, exstipulate. Inflorescence lateral and terminal Floivers polygamous, inconspicuous. Sejjals 5-2, imbricated or valvate. Petals wanting. Stamens 10-5, usually 8, inserted on the outer side of the disk; filaments short; anthers linear-oblong. Disk obsolete in the male flower, small in the female. Ovary 3-6-sided and -celled; style 3-6-sided, apex 3-6-cleft. Ovules 2 together, collateral or superposed. Capsule 2-6-sided, membranous or coriaceous, septicidally 2-6-valved; valves winged at the back; cells 1-2-seeded. ' Seeds lenticular or subglobose, compressed, exalbuminous, exarillate, funicle tliickened; embryo spirally involute.—Disteib. A genus of some 40 species or more, mostly endemic in Australia. Dodonsea (sp.) in Berb. Eohenaclc. n. 2355, is Aspidopterys canarensis, Dalz. •^'■'P\ .^^^^'osa, Linn. Mant. PI. alt. 228 ; leaves undivided oblanceolate viscid-shming glabrous subapiculate base cuneate-attenuate subsessile margm revolute entire or nearly so, cymes short, wings of each carpel oblong-orbicular extending from the base to the style. Baker in Oliv. Fl. To'op Afr. 1. 433; Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 475; Brand. For. Fl. 113 ; Boiss. M. Orient i. 953. D. angustifoUa, Linn./. Suppl. PI. 218; Roxh. Fl.Ind. ii. .^^^^ ^^'^y- 28; Fl. Ind. ii. 256. D. Burmanniana, DC. Prodr. i. 616; Wight III. I t. 52 ; W. & A. Prodr. 114; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. SO; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb.Fl. 36; Thwaites Enum. 59. D. pallida. Mm. in Herlx Holienack. n. 1068. D. microcarpa, DG. Prodr. i. 617. D. mghti&im Blume Rumph. iii. 189. D. pentandra, Griff. Notid. iv. 548. D heterophylla Hortul. ex G. Don Gen. Syst. i. 674. Wall. Cat. 8081. Ptelea viscosa Zmn. PI. eel i. 118 ; Biirm. Fl. Ind 36. D. spathulata, Sm m Rees Cycl xu. n 2. D. arabica, Hochst. & Stevd. in Herb. Arab. Schimp. n, ,QQ.—Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 23. Rumph. Herb. Amboin: iv. t. 50. Throughout India, from the Indus Eastwards and Southwards to CErLON and MALACCA.—UiSTRiB. All warm countries. An evergreen shrub occasionally growing into a small tree. Slioots terete or some- in WnX T'^ 1 f fie ^'f ^'^^ ^ '^^^'g yellowish resin, very variable CnntA ^ \ 'Sfeix.?. oblong, in. long, about equalling the stamens, a^fomttted^''''' ' ^ ' ^^^ ^-^^^d.-Several synonyms, not sUictly Indian, 21.* ]nz:Z.IANTKVS, Tournef. Si k'^iirl ' \e^fi,ets toothed, decurrent. ■ Racemes axiUary and ter- minal. Mowers bracteate, hermaphrodite irregular, sometimes anetalous uSil ?n±rrr''p ^i*^^ sacc2 gibbosity ,1^^^^^^^^ lonSdaweT H?P fifti ^fY' excentnc, declinate, subperi|ynous, narrow, long-clawed; the fifth petal very small or wanting St(mnms \ didvnamon<, owtT!:irefl7?'^ uni!atelroneye7 a5 together S ^-toothed deeply at apex ; ovules 2-4 together. Uipside papery, vesicular, deeply 4-lobed 4-rpliprl VW.