Follicular segments, 1-5, huge subglobose pods, 4 in., stalked 3-4 in., seeds in 2 rows, 

 large and winged, 2^ in. 



S. {= Firmnma) colorata, a large soft-wooded tree of Suh-Himalya, E., and 

 S. India ; bright-red inflorescences of flowers with stellate tomentum : calyx i in. 

 long, funnel-shaped, with 5 teeth: gynandrophore long and projecting : stamens small, 

 carpels 5. In fruit the follicular segments become membranous, leafy, coloured pink, 

 and break away with each 2 marginal seeds (in simulation of theoretical carpel). 



S. foftida, a deciduous tree with digitate leaves, flowers on bare branches, very 

 ofTensive ; follicular segments as woody pods, bright-red, many-seeded. 



Heritiera littoralls, widely distributed in tropical sea-coast forest, gregarious 

 and evergreen : panicles of small flowers, apetalous, mostly staminate only, and 

 much reduced. Leaves coriaceous, silvery underneath. Fruiis as siout, strongly 

 keeled, i-seeded nuts, exalbuminous. 



H. Femes, Sundri, gregarious evergreen tree characteristic of Sundribans, on 

 alluvium behind Mangrove zone : roots with ' tent-peg' pneumatophores : calyx 4-5 

 toothed ; staminate flower with rudiment of gynoecium shows the limit of reduction : 

 stamens 4-5 : gynoecium of ,5 carpels, separating as woody nuts, slightly keeled, 

 floating at the highest tide-levels. 



Cf. H. macrophylla, a large tree of Burma, inland, fruits globose with a 'beak '- 

 portion and no keel. H. Papilio of W. Ghats in evergreen forest, carpels with 

 a broad membranous wing, strongly veined. 



.IV. Tiliaceae (3.5/350). Forest-trees with flowers of mediocre Cisiifloral habit, 

 but little special modification — sepals valvate, anthers dithecic, no column — but 

 stamens often in ' bundles', ovary syncarpous. Fruit tending to indehiscent nut or 

 drupe. Cf. Tilin^ indig., and Spartnannia, Hort. 



Corchorus capsularis. Jute (with C. olitorius), herbaceous annual, indig. to 

 China, cult. Bengal and Assam, valuable fibre (Gunny); 8-12 ft., Flowers 1-3, 

 opposite the leaves, small, yellow, 12 mm. diam., pentamerous ; stamens many, on 

 a short column ; Fruit a sub-globose, longitudinally-ridged capsule, many-seeded ; 

 elongated and beaked in C. olitorius. 



Pentace burmanica, Thitka, large evergreen tree of Hill-forest, Burma ; 

 Stamens in ,5 bundles of 4-7 each, alternating with slender staminodes. Capsule 

 over I in. long, indehiscent, with 5 broad longitudinal wings, i-seeded. 



Berrya Ammonilla, a tall deciduous tree of Burma, &c.; Flowers white, \\n., 

 with numerous stamens, no staminodes, ovary 3-4 locular. Fruit a small capsule 

 with several seeds and 3 pairs of horizontally extending wing-segments, i in. long. 



Grewia oppositifolia, a common deciduous tree of W. Uimalya, planted; 

 stamens indefinite on a slight internode, Fruit a drupe, deeply 2-4 lobed with same 

 number of pyrenae, black when ripe ; a large genus, 30 sp. Indian. 



Elaeoearpus Ganitrus, typical of a large genus (123, Indian 26) of evergreen 

 trees of moist tropical forest, flowers small with fringed petals: stamens 25-35, 

 ovary 5-locular : Fruit a globose drupe, i in. diam. with characteristic solid sclero- 

 carp, grooved and corrugated, cotnmoiily i-seeded. E. lanceaefolius, a large tree 

 common at Darjeeling. 



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