THE 



Calcutta Journal 



NATURAL HISTORY 



Notes on Indian Botany. By Robert Wight, M.D., F.L.S., 

 Member of the Imp. Acad. Nat. Curios, of the Royal Bot. 

 Soc. ofRatisbon, fyc. fyc. 



AXANTHES. Blume, D. C, %e. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, or male by abortion. Calyx urceo- 

 late. Corolla rotate, or parted nearly to the base, 5-9-lob- 

 ed, very hairy within, valvate in aestivation. Stamens 5-9, 

 scarcely exserted. Ovary inferior, or apparently half superior, 

 being covered with a thick fleshy disk, 5-9-celled, with 

 numerous ovules attached to dilated placentas : in the male, 

 flowers flattened and plicate or furrowed on the margin. 

 Style short or inconspicuous, being concealed by the disk, 

 filiform, or wanting in the male flowers. Stigmas 5-9, at first 

 connivent, somewhat clavate, afterwards spreading — wanting 

 in the male flowers. Berry globose, crowned by the calyx, 

 5-9-celled, many seeded. Seeds minute, globose, scrobiculate, 

 (pitted like a thimble) attached to fleshy placentas. 



Trees or shrubs, with opposite lanceolate, acuminate leaves, 

 glabrous above, usually pubescent on the veins beneath. 

 Stipules usually about as long as the petioles, membranace- 



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