Combretaceae (15/450) of essentially tropical trees, with very characteristic 

 advanced floral orgaiiizalion, eucyclic and Discifloral ; petals may be wanting, but the 

 inferior ovary is nnilocular with 2 (or more) pendulous ovules, and single style-shaft. 

 The fruits are i -seeded nuts, indehiscent, and commonly angular or winged. 



Terminalia Chebula, a large tree of mi.xed deciduous forest ; Flowers small, 

 greenish, in short panicles or spikes, ape'alous, fly-pollinated, odour disagreeable, 

 many staminate only. Fruit obovoid, or 5-angled, i^ in. (IMyrobalans), i-seeded, 

 without endosperm, cotyledons large and convolute (in transv. sect.), storing fat. 



.\s important representative species, cf. : — 



T. Catappa, Reach-forests of the Andamans, planted and cult, for edible seeds 

 (Indian Almond); halophytic. fruit floating, 2 in., 2-angled, 2-winged with fibrous 

 pericarp and strong sclerocarp. 



T. belerica, large deciduous tree, 1 20 ft., common except in driest regions : 

 fruit ovoid, i in., with hard sclerocarp, taken by animals. 



T. tomentosa, a large deciduous tree, 100 ft. common, except in desert tracts, 

 young branches and leaves with rusty pubescence. Fruit 2 in., with 5 broad longi- 

 tudinal coriaceous wing-ridges, and hard bony sclerocarp. 



T. Arjuna, a large buttressed tree, nearly evergreen, common on banks of 

 streams, leaves coriaceous ; fruit similar, more spindle-shaped, wings narrow. 



Anogeissus latifolia, a large tree characteristic of dry deciduous forest, leaves 

 turn copper-red in cold season. Flowers in small globose capitula (i in.), minute, 

 apetalous, receptacle-tube elongated. Fruit very small, a samara, 2-winged, 5 mm., 

 with remains of receptacle-tube as beak (4 mm.). 



As types of particularly isolated series, cf. : — 



Hamamelidaceae (18/50) based on HamamcUs, Wych-Hazel of N. Amer., 

 commonly placed near Saxifrages from the receplacle-tube being partially free and 

 the gynoecium of 2 carpels, 2-loc., 2 styles, and fruit a capsule. 



Parrotia Jacquemontiana, gregarious small Hazel-like tree of NW. Himalya, 

 for wicker and bridge-rope : flowers diclinous, greenish-yellow, in clustered heads, 

 apetalous, stamens 15; capsule \ in., with stellate tomentum, 2-seeded, with horny 

 dehiscent sclerocarp. 



Bueklandia populnea, a tall evergreen tree of E. Himalya (Darjeeling, hill- 

 forest) ; stipules large, enveloping the buds ; flowers in clustered heads of 8-20, fused 

 up; petals rudimentary or wanting; stamens 10-14, ovary with several ovules, seeds 

 winged. 



Carica Papaya (Papaw) of Caiicaceae (2/30), of Tropical Amer., cult., a small 

 soft-wooded tree with late.x, single stem, leaves palmately lobed, to 2 ft. across, on 

 long petioles held horizontally; stems with yellow bark and seal-scars; staminate 

 inflorescence pendulous, staminate flower with white trumpet-receptacle and 54-5, 

 stamens near top : carpellary flower with free white petals, conspicuous ovary, 

 5 carpels and 5 elaborate stigmaiic branches, parietal placentation. Fruit succulent, 

 with black seeds in sweet pulp. Endosperm stores fat. (Formerly classed with 

 Passion-flowers, from fruit ) 



Tetrameles nudiflora (Datiscaceae, 4/4), a tall deciduous tree of hill-forest, 

 stem buttressed ; flowers on bare stems in branched panicles, dioecious, tetramerous, 

 5 mm.; Staniinaie flower with 4 stamens, carpellary flower with 4 styles, and 

 indefinite ovules on 4 parietal placentas. Capsules shed minute seeds. 



Opuntia Dillenii, Prickly Pear of S. Amer. (Cactaceae, 20/1500). Branches 

 as succulent-flaltL-ned cladodes in obovate segments, with leaf-points indicated by 

 sharp spines (i in.). Flowers of spirally arranged indefinite perianth above the inferior 

 ovary, yellow ; stamens indefinite, shorter than the ' petals '. Ovary with parietal 

 placentation, many ovules. Fiuit succulent, bird-dibpersed, pear-shaped, with spines 

 distally. 



Araliaceae (51/660), type Hcdcra, includes Aralia, Gamhlea, Dcndropanax, 

 following the general lines, with tendency to simple umbellate inflorescence-schemes 

 in panicles. 



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