Handbook of the Indian flora, Volume 3

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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...

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