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ALANGIE^. I. Alangium. PHILADELPHE^. 



tetragonal, 4-celled. T2 . S. Native of Surinam. This plant p. 61. Berry or drupe rather tomentose, 2-3-seeded. Stamens 



most probably belongs to some genus of Otiagrdrice. 

 Jussicea-like Rhexia. Shrub. 



•f* An additional species of Arthrostemma. 



3 Arthroste'mma nitida (Graham in ed. phiL journ. dec. 

 1831. Hook.bot. mag. 3142.) stems shrubby, erect, and are, as 



23, ex Vahl. The petals are either 10 or 12, and the stamens 

 are double that number. Flowers white, with a grateful scent, 

 solitary or 2-3-together in the axils of the leaves. The pulp of 

 the fruit has a grateful sweet taste. 



Ten-petalled Alangium. Clt. 1779. Tree 30 ft. 



2 A. hexape'talum (Lam. 1. c.) flowers of 6-7 petals ; 



well as the branches, tetragonally winged, beset with coloured branches glabrous, hardly spinescent ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 hairs ; leaves ovate, acute, serrulated, glabrous on both surfaces, acuminated. Tj 



Malabar 



Namidou* Sta- 



shining above, but glandularly hispid on the nerves beneath ; ^ 



peduncles axillary towards the tops of the branches, 3-flowered, mens 10-12, but 26 according to Rheed. mal. 4. t. 26. but in 



longer than the petioles ; petals obovate, retuse ; anthers dissi- the specimen examined by De Candolle, the petals were 7, and 



milar, with their connectives short and biauriculate. T2 . S. Na- the stamens 28, therefore the stamens are thrice the number of 



tive of Buenos Ayres. Flowers lilac. 



the petals. Leaves velvety beneath, and on the petioles. Berry 



/S/iimw^ Arthrostemma. Fl. Ju.Jul. Clt. 1829. Sh, 2 to 3 ft. or drupe with a purple tomentose coriaceous rmd, and red 



juicy clammy pulp, which has a rather acid taste ; the nut one- 

 Order XCIX. ALANGIE'^ (see genus for derivation), seeded. 



D. C. prod. 3. p. 103. Tube of calyx egg-shaped, rather con- 

 stricted at the apex ; limb campanulate, 5-10-toothed. Petals 

 5-10, linear, spreadingly reflexed. Stamens much exserted, 

 double or quadruple the number of the petals ; filaments free, 



Six'petalled Alangium. Clt. 1823. Tree 30 ft. 



3 A. TOMENTOSUM (Lam. diet. 1. c.) flowers unknown ; branches 

 unarmed, velvety when young, as well as the petioles and nerves. 

 of leaves ; leaves oblong, bluntly acuminated, reticulated with 

 little veins beneath, h . S. Native of the East Indies. 



filiform, very villous at the base. Anthers adnate, linear, 2- Berry or drupe pubescent, with a woody coriaceous livid-purple 

 celled, bursting inwards by a longitudinal double chink, often rind. 



barren. Disk fleshy at the base of the limb of the calyx. Drupe 



Tomentose Alangium. Tree 20 ft. 



Cult. The species of Alangium thrive well in a mixture of 



oval, somewhat crowned, fleshy, a little ribbed, and somewhat j^^^ ^;^ ^^^^^ ^^, ^^^ y^^^^ ^j^^^ ^^ij . ^^^^ ^^^.j^g, ,^^t readily 



tomentose, contammg a valveless 1 -celled nut, the bone or stone if planted in a pot of sand, with a hand-glass placed over them, 



having a hole at its apex. Seed one (or 3, ex Rheede), inverted, in heat, 

 ovate, with fleshy friable albumen. Embryo straight, with a 



long ascending radicle, and flat foliaceous ovate-cordate coty- 



Order C, 



LPHE^ (plants agreeing with Phi- 



ledons.—Shewy Indian trees, with the branches often spines- ladelphus in important characters). D. Don, in edmb. phil 



cent. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 



journ. 1826. April, p. 133. D. C. prod. 3. p. 205 



Myrt^cesB 



nated, feather-nerved, quite entire, dotless, similar to those S^^' J^ss. 



Tube of calyx turbinate, adhering to the ovarium ; limb 4- 



10-parted. Petals (f. 114. d.) alternating with the lobes of the 



This order is only composed of one genus, whose place in the ^^V^' ^^^ therefore equal to them in number, convolutely im- 



of Grewia. Flowers few, sessile, in axillary fascicles. Fruit 

 eatable. 



Myrtd 



bricate in aestivation. Stamens 20-40, inserted into the throat 



the greater number of petals, in the adnate anthers, in the one- calyx m 1 or 2 



series. 



Styles sometimes nearly distmct 



celled fruit, and in the albuminous pendulous seeds. It agrees ^"^ ^^ ^^^'^^^ "^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ J^^^^^ together in one ; stigmas 



with Combretacece in the tube of the calyx being constricted ^ many 



Capsule half adhering to the calyx, 4 (f 114. b.) -10- 



vvitu \^i/m(//ctucccc ill LUC Luut: ui lae caiyx ueuig conscriciea at v ^ o — - .^ ' ^ . 



the apex, in the one-celled fruit, and the pendulous seed ; but celled, many-seeded. Seeds scobiform, subulate, smooth, heape 



differs in the greater number of petals, in the adnate anthers, in together at tbe angles of the cells on the angular placenta, 



the albuminous seeds, and in the flat cotyledons. In the form covered by loose, membranous aril. Albumen fleshy. Em- 

 bryo inverted, almost the length of the albumen (f. 114.^-/i 



....« ..g,»,.^, *.«g,... .w.uxu. ucg.cc witii ^luvur- ^vith oval, obtuse, flattish cotyledons, and a nearly terete radicle^^ 



agece in the fabric of the seed, but differs from it in habit, in the ^^'^"^^ ^^ longer than the cotyledons. — This order consists o 



Melas 



degr 



and 



Malays 



The properties are said by ^^^^y ornamental shrubs. 



Leaves opposite, dotless, nerved. 



matic. 



) 



Malabar 



mus. 10. p. 161. D. C. prod. 3. p. 203. — Angolam, Adans. fam. 

 2. p. 85. — Angol^mia, Scop. 



Lin. syst. Icosdndria, Monogynia. Being no other genus 

 the character i#the same as that of the order. 



toothed, or nearly entire, exstipulate. Peduncles opposite, ax 

 illary, or terminal, trichotomously cymose, or somewhat panic e 

 Flowers white, in most cases fragrant. Philadelphea is more 

 closely allied to Saxifragece than to Myrtacece; from the former, 

 however, it differs widely in habit, but in the fructification dif- 

 fering chiefly in the numerous cells of the fruit, and in the mde- 



My 



1 A. decape'talum (Lam. diet. 1. p. 174.) flowers of 10 pe- 



minou 



s seeds, in the stvles being more or less distinct, an i" 



1 A. DECAPETALUM<^i.am. aict. 1. p. i74.;Howersot 10 pe- »i, , ,, , j ,i , ' t^ n j^n^ ««;nt^ out an approach 



tals; branches glabrous, spinescent ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, the toothe,^, dotless leaves. D^. Candolle pomts out an. pp^^^^^ 



Native of Malabar, on rocky mountains, where it is 

 called Alangi or Angolam by the natives. Rheed. mal. 4. t, 

 17. Grewia salvifolia, Lin. fil. suppl. 409. ex Vahl, symb. 1. 



Hyd ^ . 



agreeing almost equally with PhiladSlphci^ and Viburnea >n 



habit and fructification. 



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