INDIAN PLANTS- 40^ 



snferti'one leviter intumefcentes e.t rubarticulatT. 



Mores fparii, albi, carnoii, patentes, copiofi. PedicelU teretes, crai- 

 , fiurGUii,;.len€as duas iongi, bafi medioque bradeola una duabufve 

 SBiDutis -ovatis ■ actite . eiriarcefeentibus iriiirtiaio . Similes •• bradieol^- 

 ad; inferdonem' raeemuli finguli, -ntrpriores valde decidueev 



F.eriantkium^ petaloideum^ hexaphyllumj. „ reeurvatum,- s&ftivatione irn- 

 bncatxim; foliola lanceolata acuta doplici Oj^ine difpofita, aqualiai 

 Foiiola alia i^vv 2. rarius 3, minima, bra^leiformia (calyx?) lato» 

 ovata V. oblongata, obtufa, bafi Soris .ad^refla, hajus foliolis altera 

 nantiai cnmque iilis decidua. 



OmriaXim,^. rarius quatuor, ercfta, fcibulato-cvata,. dorfo gibbofa, ccnti-'- 

 gusj periaothji foliolis interioribus alterna, hiique breviora, unU 

 localaria,-. monofperma ? -ovula oblonga,,. teretia,, . furfum- adfixa, 

 pendula, , Siigmaia S&SilidL, fubukta^.aicuta,, comofas., logofa, re« 

 curvata, mucofa. 



iV^67ar/a f, . nidimenfa llaminum 8 v, 10, bafm ovariomm ambienuaj 

 patentiay carnoiX cylindrica, trancata, inscqqaliaj minima.. 



Inflorefcentiamafcula ;haud vifae 



Ohjervalion, . The follov/ing is an extraa^-from the late Di". Roxburgh's va 

 luabie manufcripr* " There is no figure in Rheede's or Rumphius 

 " works which I can quote for tbi^ famoiFs plant : -nor-, indeed in any 

 " book-, knov/n to- me, except tha&of Gaeetner and that extends 

 " only £0 the fruit. It is, a oativ-e of Malabar, from whence feeds 

 " v/ere fent to- the Botanic Garden at- Calcutta in 1807.- In 1812 

 ^* the plants reared from the fe were fufEciently large to extend over 

 " a confiderable Mango tree, having flems^s thick as:a man's wrifl:/ 

 " covered with deeply cracked^ fpongy alh-coloared bark : the 

 young (hoots fmooth and green. Leaves alternate, very exa6lly 

 cordate, entire, apex obtufe or emarginate, of a hard texturej 

 " lucid above, paler but no wife tomentofe or villous underneath, 

 !!• from 4 to i^ inches long, by 3 to 8 inches broad. I cannot fa^^ 



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