Title: Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire
Identifier: CUbiodiversity690553 (find matches)
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Brandis, Dietrich, Sir, 1824-1907
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: London : A. Constable & Co. , Ltd
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Mann Library, Cornell

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94 XXI. TILIACEJ) (Pentace 2. PENTACE, Hasbk.; M. Brit. Ind. i. 381. Trees with leather)- leaves and numerous small flowers in terminal panicles. Calyx campanulate, 5-iid. Stamens numerous, filaments usually in 5 bundles. Staniinodes 5, short. Ovary 5-celled. Fruit dry, indehiscent, 1-celled, 1-seeded, with S-10 large membranous wings. Embryo large, in a thin albumen. Species 15, Burma and the Eastern Peninsula. 1. P. burmani- ca, Kurz, F. El. i. 154. Vern. Thltka^ Burm. A large evergreen tree, wood red (white when fresh cut), shining, not hard, even grained, medul- lary rays prominent on radial section, young shoots j^iibes- cent. Leaves ovate- or obovate - oblong, acuminate, more or less sinu.ate - lobed, glossy above, pale and pubescent be- neath. Secondary nerves 5-7 pair, the lowest pair basal. Inflorescence tavmy- tomentose Stamens in 5 bundles of 4-7 alternating with long linear staminodes. Capsule with 5 broad membranous wings, 1-1J in. long. Evergreen and bemi-evergreen forests on the hills of Burma. Fl. February, Marcli Also on the hills of Cambodia. 2. i». GrtffitHii, King, in Journ. As. Soo. Beng., vol, 60, 11. KM, of Tavoy, has leaves with 5 basal nerves, the 2 outer close to the maro-in the 3 inner very prominent, large flowers (J in. diam.) and a capsule with 10 wings!" ' 3. BERRYA, Eoxb.; FL Brit. Ind, I 383. -o ?; A^^rnmonilla, Roxb., Cor. PL 264 The only species. Wight 111. t. 34; Bedd. M. Syly. t. 58. Vern. Petwtin, Burm. A tall tree with smooth pale bark, heartwood dark red, very hard. Leaves cordate; acute, bright green, with 5-7 basal nerves, margin undulating, glabrous above, glabrous or slightly pubescent beneath. Petiole 2-4, blade 5-8 in, long. Stipules 1 m. bng, linear-setaceous. PL white, numerous, ; in. diam., in lax terminal panicles. Stamens oo, free^ no staminodes. Ovary 3-4-celled Oapsule supported by the persistent calyx, globose, pubescent, with 6 horizontally spreading, blunt, papery wings 1 in. long. Seeds 1-4 in each cell. Malabar, Travancore, Ceylon, Andamans, Burma. Fl.O.S. Pierre, PL For. Cochinoh. t,16d, regards tlie tree oi the Eastern Peninsula, leaves softly tomentose beneath as a distinct species—^, mollis, Wall. ^ wixx«nwbe oenea^n, as a 4. GREWIA, Linn.; PL Brit. Ind, i, 383. Trees or shrubs, mostly deciduous, at times scrambling or climbing. Branch- lets, leaves and sepals mostly clothed with stellate hairs. Simple hairs on petals.
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Fig. 45.—Pentace burmanica, 'Kwvz. *.

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