Flora indica, or, Descriptions of Indian plants : reprinted literatim from Carey's edition of 1832 / by the late William Roxborough.
- William Roxburgh
- Date:
- 1874
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Flora indica, or, Descriptions of Indian plants : reprinted literatim from Carey's edition of 1832 / by the late William Roxborough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Oh a. PI A X UR 1A M 0 N CM i Y NIA. Germ i wo-crlled, two-seeded. Drupe with one, or two-celled, t wo-valved nut ; teed Military, JZmbrya rnmil ;iml folded, with lit tic or no perispenn, and with h curved inferior radicle. jr;d. Having found it necessary to deprive our countryman the late Sir Fhomas Millington of the genus assigned to his memory by the younger Linnieus. f Supl. 43 and 2til j because, on timling the ripe seed vessel of the only species thereof, 1 ascertained it to he a true Bignania I. as I suspected ; 1 have therefore restored that respectable name to the system, under a differ- 103 ent dress, by giving it to the two trees whicli at present constitute this strongly marked fa- mily, and which, I am inclined to think, have not, until now, been described. 1. M. simplicifolia, R. Lea rex alternate, simple, broad-lanceolate. A large tree, a native of Silliet, where it is called Danfrvmgee by the natives; the tim- ber is used for various |>nrjs>ses. Flowers in February and March ; seed ripens in July and August. * Traces alternate, pctioled, hroad-lanceolar, tapering most toward the has*1, entire, or very remotely snh-serrate, iu very young plants completely serrate, rather acuminate, smooth ; veins simple and paralleled ; from six to twelve inches long, by three or four broad. Panicle terminal, large, oblong, patent, brown, villous branches. Flower* numerous, sessile, very minute, yellow. Bractes oblong, clothed with ferruginous pubescence. Calyx three-leaved, independently of two or three minute, villous bractes, like a ealycle ; leaflets ovate, smooth, permanent. Petals three, broad-ovate, waved, twice the length of the calyx, permanent. Sectary a variously Jolied, smooth scale from the base of each petal on the inside, they form « dome over the pixtillum, and round the base of the germ is found a Hut, triangular Isaly, with its angles bidentate. Filaments two, opposite, incurved, inserted without the interior, tliree-ungnlnr nectary ; bifid, the inner lamina supporting on its apex a patelliform receptacle, on which the two-lobed yellow anther rests. I'jf*rior lamina bifid, segment* subulate, rising rather higher thau the anther. Germ superior, two-eelled, with two ovula in each, attached to the thickened middle of the partition. Style single, short. Stigma obscurely two-lobed. Dru/te size of n pea, nearly round, succulent, smooth, black, one-eellod. Nut conform to the drupe, rarely more than onc-eelled, hard, cell somewhat angular; the second or altortive cell I. always traceable. Seer! solitary, concave on the side next the abortive cell of the nut, hemis- 104 pherie on the other. Integument single, membranaceous. Pert*perm none. h'mLego curved, and doubled, as in the Convol enlace re, with a curved inferior radicle. 2. M. pinnata. R. Tata res alternate, abruptly pinnate; leaflet* from six to twelve pair, sub-opposite, lanceo- late. Hntiwa, the vernacular name in Silliet, where it is indigenous, growing to be a middling si/.nl tree, the wi»«l of which i- employed by the natives iu constructing their 1 muses. Flowers in April and May. The seeds ripen in September. Branchiets smooth. Imre* ultimate, abruptly-pinnate; from six to ■ ighteen inches long. Leaflets from six to twelve )iair, sub-opposite, short-petiolcd, lanceolate, remotely ser- rate, acuminate, smooth, thnv to six inches long, by otic or one ami u half broad. Panicles terminal, very large and very ramous, u little hairy. Bracles minute. F!o*rers numerous, small, while. Ca/gr tlms-lcaved, with two smaller ones under them, which may be calh-d bractes or n ealycle; or, the calyx may be called five-leaved. Nectary/, from the inside of the base of each petal arises a variously lobed, rugged leatlet or scale, w'hieb Is incurved over the germ ; besides which round the base of the germ is u small, three-sided cup with hiden- tatv angles. Filaments two, opjmsite, length of the germ, short, broad, with enlarged apex ; from the liuse on the outside, rises a broad, tridentute scale, of a 1 suit the length of the fila- ment. Anthers twin, each lobe globular, opening transversely on the inside. Germ su]>erior, mrilate, two-celled, with two ovnla in each cell, atlaclasl to the partition. Stgte short. Stigma small, bidentate. Drupe size of a pea, smooth, black, succulent, on,-celled. Net roundish, thick for its size and very haul, rugose, one-eelled, two-valved, with u projection into the cell opposite to the remains of the style on one side near the base, which marks the abortive lobe, deed solitary, conform to the nut. Integument single, membranaceous. Pe- I. risptnn none, or in small quantity, and blended with the integument. Kmbnjo curved, and 105 folded up nearly us in the Conculrulacece. Cotyledons ovate-oblong. Radicle inferior, curved. OLE A. Schrch. gen. N. 25. Carol and calyx four-cleft. Germ two-eellcd, two-seeded. Drupe superior, one-seeded. JSmbryo Inverse, and furnished with a perisperm. 1. O. fragrant. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 1. t. 6. Shrubby. Isac* oblong-lanceolate, slightly serrate. Peduncles axillarv. Oh» fragrans. Thumb. Jap. 18. I. 2. good, A native of < liiiiu, iu the Botanic garden it blossoms during the cool season. 2. O. paniculata. R. Leave, opjawte, pctioled, oblong, entire, smooth. Panicles axillarv. Bractes deciduous JjOhe.s ot ttie stigma divaricate. A small tree; a native of the t'ircar mountains. Flowers during the hot s, „s,,n petiob'd, I.bloug, waved, entire, running down the petiole, smooth on both Kide, firm, dwt five inches long, and two broad. Petiole* an inch and half |„„g smooth, flat alsivc. .Vipults none. Pamde* below the leaves, and also from the axilb amnll’ thin, Graduate, Bractes small, nearly sessile. Calyx four-cleft, small. Coral onc pctalled ■](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28120024_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
