101. 



SCHREBERA SWIETENIOIDES.* 



Mucaadie of the Telingas. 

 Weaver's-beam tree. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx two-lip'd. Corol from five to seven-cleft. Capsule pear-shape, 



two cellYl, two-valved. Seeds from eight to ten, membrane- 



wing'd. 





DESCRIPTION 



Trunk erect. Bark scabrous. 



Branches numerous, spreading in every direction, so as to form a 



large, beautiful, shady head. 



Leaves nearly opposite, petioled, pinnate with an odd one, about a 



foot long. Leaflets three or four pair, opposite, short-pe- 

 tioled, the lowermost largest, and obliquely ovate, while those 

 towards the apex become more lance-shape ; all are entire, 

 pointed, smooth on both sides, and about three or four inches 



1 



ong 



Petioles round, smooth. 



Panicles terminal, thin, trichotomous. 



Bractes small, falling. 



Flowers white and brown variegated ; very fragrant during the 



night. 

 Calyx beneath, tubular, somewhat two-lip'd : lips nearly equal, 



* 



emarginate ; there are often two lateral toothlets, one on each 



side, in the divisions of the lips. 

 Corol one-petal'd, salver-form ; Tube cylindric, three times longer 



than the calyx ; border spreading, divided into five, six, or 



seven wedgeform, truncate segments. 

 Filaments two, short, inserted below the middle of the tube. 

 Anthers oblong, hid within the tube of the corol. 

 Germ above, oval. Style a little longer than the tube. 



Stigma bifid. 



* 



hard, 



two-cellVl, two-valved. 



Seeds four in each cell, irregularly oval, compress'd, with a long 



membranaceous wing. 



looms, particularly for the beam : it serves also for a great variety 



of other uses. 



d to think it would answer well for scales to math 



matical instruments, 

 subject to warp. 



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box, b 



not 



102. 



OLAX SCANDENS. 



Turka Vepa of the Telingas. 



Trunk leaning, often as thick as a man's thigh. 



Branches numerous, climbing or bowing. 



Thorns verv lanre, exceeding; strong;, like a rhinoceros's h 



tered over the old woody parts only. 



ab 



broad 



Raceme axillary, solitary, half the length of the leaf, few-flowered. 



Flowers small, white. 



Calyx cup-form, entire, permanent, and enlarging with the fruit. 



Corol bell'd. Petals three: 1,2 or all 3 half tw r o-cleft : divisions 



linear, spreading. Nectary, a bifid, filiform, yellow body rises 

 from the inside of the base of each division of the petals. 



Filaments three, short, between the nectaries, inserted into the pe- 

 tals, below their fissures. 



Anthers oblong. 



Germ above, egg'd. 

 Style length of the corol. 

 Stigma simple. 



Berry globular, three-fourths covered with the enlarged calyx, yel- 

 low, pulpy. 



Seed single, globular. 



A large, climbing shrub ; a native of forests ; flowers all the 

 year round. 



103. 



CANSIERA SCANDENS 



Cansjera. Juss. gen. 448. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



This is a large timber tree, a native of vallies in the mountainous 

 parts of the Rajahmundry Circar. Its flowering time is about the 

 beginning of the hot season. 



The wood is of a grey colour, very close-grained, heavy, and 

 durable ; it is reckoned less subject to crack or warp than any other ; 

 on which account it is employed by weavers in many parts of their 



* Schrebera schinoides of Linnaeus, is a species of Cuscuta, growing on Myriea aethio- 

 pica. Schrebera albens of Retzius (Celastrus glaucus ofVahl) is a species of Elasodendrum. 



Leaves alternate, two-faced, short-petioled, broad-lanced, smooth, 



entire, about three inches long, and one broad. 

 Spike axillary, generally single, short, every where covered with 



fl 



owers. 



Bractes solitary, small, oval, one-flower'd. 

 Flowers small, sessile, yellow. 



Calyx below, one-leaved, bellied : mouth four-tooth'd. 

 Corol none, except the calyx or nectary is such. 

 Nectary four-leaved, hearted, acute, half the length of the calyx, 



inserted round the base of the germ, and embracing it. 



Schrebera schinoides of Thunberg's prodromus plantarum capensium, is Hartogia capensis filaments four, inserted into the base of the Calyx, and shorter 



Linn, suppl. us. Thunb. nov. gen. p. 87. 



than it. 



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