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2-cleft 3-lobed 3-nerved achenium acuminate acute adnate anthers apex awned axillary axils base beneath Bengal bracts branched branchlets bristles calyx capsule caryopsis cells CHAR ciliated column compressed Concan connate cordate coriaceous Culm cylindric Dalz deciduous densely elliptic elongated Engrav equal erect fascicled female filaments filiform fleshy flor floret fruit GENUS glabrous glands globose glumes hairy hermaphrodite Ident imbricated involucre keeled Khasia Kunth lanceolate leafy leaves alternate leaves linear Lindl linear-lanceolate Linn lobes Malabar male calyx male flowers many-flowered margin membranaceous Monandria Monogynia mucronate muticous narrow Nees Neilgherries oblong obovate obtuse ovary ovate ovate-lanceolate ovules panicle pedicelled peduncles Peninsula perianth petals petioled puberulous pubescent racemes racemose rhachis Roxb scabrous scales scape seeds segments sepals sessile sheaths short shorter Silhet slightly smooth solitary spadix spathe SPEC spikelets spikes stamens stem Steudel stigma striated style subulate Syst terminal Triandria triquetrous umbel upper valves Wight Contrib Wight's Icon
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Page 416 - Flowers collected in small fascicles, from 6 to 12 within the sheaths of the leaves, expanding in succession; pure, pellucid white, except a purple spot on the centre of each of the divisions of the inner series. Bracts 3 to each flower, 1 larger and exterior, 2 interior and lateral ; all linear, acute, membranous, and half the length of the tube of the corolla. Calyx the length of the bracts. Tube of corolla long, filiform ; limb double, both series 3-parted...
Page 222 - Peepul ; leaves on very long petioles (6 to 8 inches), broadcordate, with a short and sudden acumination, rather membranaceous with waved margins, finely reticulated beneath (lateral veins spreading and prominent), perfectly smooth ; fruit paired, sessile, round, smooth, black, of the size and appearance of a black cherry. On the Ghauts. Native name '• Paeer.
Page 448 - Stemless: leaves decompound : flowers sessile with respect to the surface of the ground, and appearing when the plant is destitute of leaves : spathe the length of the spadix, campanulate, with curled margins, no nectary : club broad ovate, lobate : anthers 2-celled.
Page 345 - Leaves ensiform, short, very succulent, slightly falcate ; stem compressed, spike drooping towards the apex, densely covered with innumerable small sessile flowers : bracts ovate, somewhat obtuse, sub-denticulate on the margin : sepals broad, ovate, obtuse entire : petals narrow linear : lip broad cordate at the base, crenate, twolobed at the apex, with a minute tooth between ; all furnished with numerous minute opaque glandular (?) dots.
Page 222 - Wight Ic., t. 650, is a native of the bases of the hill ranges throughout India. It is a climbing shrub, and often a tree with a stem as thick as a man's arm ; leaves alternate, very shortly petioled, somewhat ovate, suddenly acuminated, very unequally sided, cuneate toward the base ; lateral nerves 3 to 4 on each side, prominent, spreading, uniting in arches, pale green, rough, length 3 to 4 inches, sometimes a little toothed on the margin ; fruit small. The Flora of British India describes four...
Page 220 - Miquel loc. cit. — Leaves rather longpetioled, membranaceous, oblong or sublanceolate-oblong, moderately and acutely acuminated, obtuse, or rounded, or subcordate at the base, quite entire, or very slightly repand ; fruit small, sessile, twin, globose, smooth, when ripe white. Syn. Ficus infectoria, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 551 ; Wight Ic. 665 (excluding F infectoria, Willd).
Page 563 - Linn. — Culm ascending; branches simple, short ; leaves short, lanceolate, from a broad base, rigid, convolute and pungent at the apex, glaucous ; spike terminal, ovoid or subrotund, white, dense ; spikeleta about 4-flowered.
Page 329 - ... bright orange yellow spots on each lateral lobe, and two others smaller and of the same colour at the base of the middle lobe, besides some lateral streaks of brown : the column is bordered with brilliant orange yellow.
Page 220 - Large tree : leaves long-petiolecl, ovate-cordate, narrow-acuminate, entire or repandly undulate towards the apex, quite smooth : fruit paired, axillary, sessile, vertically compressed, when ripe, of the size and colour of a small black cherry, appearing in the hot season.
Page 217 - Large tree : trunk crooked, thick and high, hark of a rusty-greenish colour and rough : leaves alternate, petioled, oblong or broad-lanceolate, tapering equally to each end, entire, very slightly 3-nerved, smooth on both sides : racemes compound or...