HOnECCA TIin,OBAT.
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DESCRIPTION.
RocL |)erenniat, perpendicular, tuberous, stoloniferoui
Heshy fibres.
Leaves radical, pelioled, lanceolate, ve
from six to ihirty.six inches long.
Pdioks: upper half cylindric, lower half sheaihing, some spathaccoiis
bracis surround iheir lower pans.
Scapa axillary, solitary, short, somewhat coiapres.secl.
Spalhc: base tubular and somewh.u bellied ; middle portion cylindric
and convohite ; apex expanding, ovate-lanceolate,
margins of the apex ciliated with long, flexible, purple
filaments ; [he lower tubular portion where the fructification
is lodged, is half separated (by a transverse
ihe upper portion, as in A. spiralis,
S/amois, filiiments none. Jyilkcrs numerous, ses
the lower portion of the stigma.
Pij/i7: Gem conical, crowned, %/ccylindric,
apex turbinate, lower portion surrounded \
Capsnle roundish, 6-furrowed, and crowned w¡
spondiiig points of the ridges ; 6-celled,
Sccdi C-8 in cach ccll, aflixcd by their bases to a central receptacle;
each is augmented by a large spongy substance.
Embryo erect, furnished with an alljumen and many subulate
cotyledons, as in Pinus,
with long
what fleshy.
membrane) from
sile, surrounding
Stigma oblong,
i-ith anthersth
the six corre-
WALLICHIA.
MONOECIA HEXANDRIA.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Spalhe many-leaved, Spadix ramous.
MALI;. Perianth proper one-!eaved, entire. Corel 3-petalled
FEMALE. Gz/^.i; double : 2-leaved ; /«/incr 3-parted.
CoTol 3-petalled. Berry 2-seeded. Embrt/o in the back
of the seed.
295. WALLICHIA CARYOTOIDES.
Spadi.x terminal. Leaves pinnate. Leajtets wedge-shaped,
variously priemorse.
OBSERVATIONS.
Chelputta. or Bhelpiiitah, it is called at dtillagong, where the
plant is found indigenous, and blossoms in Jul y ; seed ripen
during the cold season.
DESCRIPTION.
itil the plants blossom, and then it may he
z above the fibrous mar-
Tr,mk s 5 any, •
lateral margins entire, apices prxmorse at very various distances
from the base, and jagged with the sliarp point of
mimerons, parallel, fine fibre-s which run up through the
substance of the leaflets ; upper surface smooth, shining, dee|>
green, whitish underneath : general length about one foot or
fifteen inches.
Petioles [stipes] at the base sheathing, the rest subcylindric, tapering
a little ; while young covered with a large portion of
a brown, wnolK- substance.
Spadix terminal, composed of numerous, alternate, simple, drooping
branches; general length of the whole vamose part from
one to three feet.
Spathe universal many-leaved. Leaflets of various sizes, and of a
soft, delicate, leathery texture ; striated lengthways ; outside
covered with brown, meaily matter i inside smooth.
Male flowers very luunerous over every part of the branches of
thespadix, small, pale ycllowisli white, tinged with pink.
Perianth cylindric, one-leaved, almost solid, (there being only an
excavation in the apex for the reception of tliecorol.) Margin
marked with three, small protuberances ; smooth on both
sides.
Co7-ol: Petals three, lanceolate, smooth, fleshy: nothing like a
nectary nor germ to be seen.
Filaments six, short, inserted on a small hollow receptacle in the
centre of the corol. Anthers linear.
Femalefioweri mixed amongst the male over the branches of the
same spadix.
Perianth (maybe called) double (in that case,) the exterior is of two,
reniform leaflets. The ¿«/fntr one-icaved, cup-shaped, with
the border 3-partcd.
Carol as in the male, but with shorter and rather broader peals.
Stamina none; nor is there any nectary.
Germ above, ovate. Style none. A/^wnsmall, conical, S-pointed.
Pericarp, a dry, ovate-oblong berry, about the size of a nutmeg,
one-celled.
Seeds two, ovate-oblong, singly about the size of a large coffeebean,
but longer, flat on one side, convex on the other, with
the mhtyo lodged about the middle of the convex side.
OBSERVATIONS.
When the plant has ripened its seed, it perishes ; and is sitcceeded
by suckers which rise from the root, as in.the common
plantain : or may be reared from the seed.
called the base of the spadix,
gined sheuths of the fronds.
Leaves [fronds] few, alternate, pinnate, petioled, from three to
eight feet long.
Leaflets sessile, variously disposed ; the lowermost are generally
in opposite fascicles, of two, or tln-ee ; those farther on are
for the most part single, and alternate; all are wedge-.shapcd:
296. QUERCUS ARMATA R.
Leaves lanceolar, acuminate, entire, smooth. Cup an entire
evalvular capsule, armed with many compound thorns, hiding
completely the subovatc acorn.
OBSERVATIONS.
A large timber tree, a native of the mountainotrs countries immediately
east of Bengal ; at Chittagong, it is called Kanta-lal-batana ;
at Tipperah Singahara ; and in the foi'osts near Golparuh Kaiita
Singgnr.
QUERCUS CASTANICARPA.
Leaves oblong, entire, smooth,
little hairy, completely hid in the •
is completely armed with n
Flower
ovate, svith a point, i
lar eap.sular cup, which
g, ramous, sharp spines.
OBSERVATIONS.
Lnmba-kanta-hurrinea-Batana, the vernacular name in CA/tiag(
mg; where it grows upon the hills over that district to be a
very large, and elegant tree, with far extended siiady branches,
i in Jul y and August ; and the acorns ripen in the cool
The wood not esteemed, and used for fuel chiefly.
Flowers numerous, male and female annexed on the .same K
middling sized, foniiing a little dichotomous corymb, i
the apex of the tendrils.
Culi/x tubular, somewhat gibbous toward the base; colon
yellow; mouth 5-parted.
Petals five, linear-laneeolate, ciliate, inserted on the tube
calyx near the base. Kectarial scales in the male ni
the /emale ten ; five are alternate with the petals en
tiuncated, atid five under tlie petals, .smaller and cil:
Filaments in the male five, united into a tube. Anthers
-r pale
of the
linear.
•t-pedi-
MODECCA.
MONOECIA MONADELPHIA.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx tubular, coloured, 5-parted. Petals five, in.serted into the
calyx. jYcctary various. Gam pedicelled, one-celled : ovules
numerous, insertion parietal. Capsule, one-celled, 3-valved.
Seeds many. Ejnbryo inferior-centrifugal, and furnished
with albumen.
OBSERVATIONS,
I have adopted Van Rheeda's name for a generic one to this
family, which, though nearly allied to Passiflora, seem to nie to
be suflieiently distinct on account of its capsular seed vessel, and
monoecious habit.
297. MODECCA TRILOBATA.
Leaves 3-lobed, a gland under each sinus, and two at the base.
Capsule oblong.
OBSERVATIONS.
Akanda-Phul, the vernacular name in Ckittagougwhere the
plant is found in tlie moist forests, growing to an extent of many
fathoms; ramous, and climbing up and over trees of a large size.
In the Botanic Garden at Caimtta, it grows slow, though healthy;
flowers during the rains, and the fruit ripens in October,
DESCRIPTION.
Bark on the ..Id ligneous parts ash-colourcd ; on the young shoots
smooth, polished, green.
Leaves remote, alternate, (jetioled, smooth on both sides, 3-lobed ;
/oiii entire, tapering and acute. Gla7ids: a large yellow one
under each sinus, and two at the base.
Petioles nearly as lotig as the leaves, columnar, smooth; base
permancin, though not enlarged, as in AL tuberosa, and becomes
a recurved blunt, short, thorn,
Jm/nYi axillary, Uoriferous, when not floriferous simple.
Germ in the male a small 3-cleft gland ; in tha jmale s
celled, oblong, one-eelled; ovules many, attache
vertical, parietal rcceptaclos. Style none. .Sligiua 3-lobed.
Capsule pedicelled, berried, oblong, size of a puliet's egg, fleshy,
smooth, polished, scarlet colour, 3-valved, opening from the
apex-
Seeds manyattaehed, by very thick, soft, fleshy cords to a thickened
ridge down the middle of each valve; obcordate, invested in
a complete, soft, lucid, aril. Integiiments two, exterior nuciform,
dark coloured, scrobiculate ; interior membrattaceous.
Albumen conform to the seed, somewhat glaucous.
Embryo nearly as large as the perisj.erm, with round, 3-nerved
cotyledons and sliort radicle lodged at the umbilicus of the
seed.
298. GARCINIA CAMBOGIA.
Willd. 2. p . m .
Leaves broad-lanceolar, Hermapkrodile flowers terminal, subsessile,
solitary. Stigma 3-10-lobed, torulose. 8-10-seeded.
Mangostana Cambogia, Gart. sem. 2. 106,1. 105.
Cuddam-pulli. Rheed.mal. \.p.',\.t. 24. is probably this very
tree, for though Van Rheede says the fruit is on a peduncle
an inch long, yet his figure places the leaves close to the
terminal fruit, so that it is evident the extremity of the
branchlet must Iiave been considered the peduncle. In
my G. zeylaniea the Bowers are axillary.
OBSERVATIONS,
o be of considerable size in the forests of
is known to the natives by the name Ghorwe
may conclude it to be Carcapuli ot Qs^uWm,
kapiiH: conseqi
Ac O.St a, &e.
June andjuly
Flowering time February and March ; fruit ripe in
DESCRIPTION,
Leaves opposite, .short-petioled, lanceolar, entire, polished on both
sides; length S-6-inches, and from one to two broad.
Flouers terminal, solitary, subsessile, pretty large, yellow.
Calyx 4-leaved ; leaflets in two oppo.sitc pairs, the exterior pair
rather smaller ; all are nearly round, of a firm fleshy texture,
smooth on both sides and permanent.
Petals four, nearly round, twice the length of the calyx.
Filaments from fifteen to twenty, shorter than the germ, broad
towards the base, and there slightly united. Anthers rom<iish.
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