ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 103 
many flowered, a cymes, and small greenish yellow flowers, numerous on the male, 
few on the female p 
ena such a statement. 
Batanites.—Delile—Calyx of 5 sepals, villous, caducous. 
the bas 
than the calyx; petals lanceolate, attenua 
in Dis: each die is terminat- 
sake n between the anthers. 
Corolla 5 petals, alittle longer 
Stamens 10, filaments subulate. 
Anthers 2- celled, attached by the back. Chee surrounded by a plaited glandular disk, ation 
very villous, 5- celled, 5-ovuled. Style erect, filiform; stigma capitate. 
abortion, l-celled, 1-seeded, with a woody 5-angled nut. 
Embryo straight; radicle superior; cotyledons semi- 
endoplura thickened round the radicle. 
ovate, ere diphyllous. 
rupe ovoid, acute, 
Seed pendulous; testa fibrous, the 
e 20-30 feet high, ble alternate, bifoliolate, spines axillary, pedicels 1-flowered, 
siiaaa flowers, small, 
The India 
whiti 
n plant t differs baie the African, in having nearly globose, very obtuse fruit, in 
Plshe of ovoid sad acute as described Blows, whence it may perhaps prove a distinct species. 
GOMPHANDRA. 
varieties. ong m 
than five very distinct _— which w 
Frag and perhaps justly, be Ssndered re man y Bota- 
nists somany distinct species. For myself, having ar 
Ojecting to the multiplication of species unless on very 
unds, I prefer - inflorescence pela the 
same and the fruit unknown 
rieties of one, but will ee aa each form, by a distinct 
nameand character, expressive e of the form of its foliage ; 3 
leaving to others to determine whether they are species 
or tices 
orpha R. W. dioicous, cclaseapyg leaves short 
ke ge d, acianinsted membrana : cymes axilla 
solitary or in pairs, about the length ot the petiol, m é 
many, female few Gs) agpeettiod Hive Led Ths minutely 
4-5 toothed: Peta ow into a tubular 
corolla, amour gers mprietng anthers crested 
with a minute tuft of hair : 
Courtallum and Ceylon in thick jungles. 
minata, leaves oval, very broad in the middle, 
Sthomumtel * both ends, and terminating in a longish 
Berd nao 
ngifolias ing linear oblong, obtuse at both 
ends, pte kay in ashort abrupt, usually blunt, acumen, 
(4-5 inches long and pe athe oad). 
y. angustifolia, ee narrow, line lanceolate 
acute at the base, acuminated above, Gxt inches long, 
iy I broad, flowers often pentandrous) 
ifolia, ‘Teaves linear, round ede t the base, ac 
suirigged at the * fm about 3 times as feet, ee (5- “7 
inches long 1}-2 broad). . 
e. ovalifolia, leaves oval, obtuse at both ends, 
shortly and obtuse maid acuminated at the point, G13 
inches jong by 14 
G. cortacea, Posie male a pb — 
flowered; female flowers, solitary, 0 
fruit henge pic iia igs leaves seta yy nae at- 
tenuat h ends, to obovate cuneate; flowers te- 
mare 
Pulangocs very distinct species, but the written 
characters, do not so clearly indicate the differences be- 
tween this and the preceding, as the eye. 
Bice aee OF PLATE 40. 
a Opilia amentacea—natural si 
. 
_ 3. The same outside 
4A flower showing the oat, stamens, plone: and 
ached stamens. 
—5. Det 
pendulous ov 
a The ova re cut vertically, showing the solitary pres 
* A 8 cale of the amentum with i its enclosed flower- 
ere 
_ of the actaea 
i A full grown fruit. 
he same cut tasters, showing the central 
cylindrical read : 
9. The wise “i shew the wholelength 
“ote ae re through injudicious 
shading does nak giveacorrect idea of the sesiai re- 
ented, 
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