Forest Flora of British Burma (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...pale beneath; flowers small, sessile, in short small axillary spikes; calyx minute; petals glabrous, lin. long. Hab.--Ava.--Fl. Octob. SCUTIA, Comm. Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx 5-cleft, the tube hemispherical or turbinate. Petals 5, flat or hooded. Disk filling the calyxtube, the margins free and waved. Stamens 5. Ovary immersed in the disk, free, 2-4-celled; style short, 2-S-cleft. Drupes dry or fleshy, containing 2-4 crustaceous pyrenes. Albumen none or scanty.--Spiny or unarmed shrubs, with opposite or almost opposite penninerved leaves. Flowers axillary, in clusters or small umbellets. 1. S. Indica, Brongn.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 640.--A wild straggling shrub, armed with opposite sharp curved spines, all parts glabrous; leaves almost alternate, obovate to oblong, on a short slender petiole, acute at the base, 1-2 in. long, retuse, blunt or acute, thinly coriaceous, entire or serrulate upwards, glabrous, shining above; flowers yellowish-green, small, on slender a line long pedicels, forming a few-flowered very small glabrous umbellet in the axils of the leaves; berries depressed globular, the size of a pea, smooth. JI Ah.--Upper Tenasserim, along the Attaran. COLUBRINA, L. C. Rich. Calyx 5-cleft, the tube hemispherical. Petals 5, hooded. Stamens 5. Disk thick, annular, 6-10-lobed or 5-cornered, filling the calyx-tube. Ovary immersed in the disk and confluent with the same, 8 celled, the style short, 8-cleft or 8-parted. Drupe obsoletely 3-lobed, up to near surrounded by the calyx-tube, containing 3 cocci often capsule-like separating and loculicidally dehiscing. Albumen fleshy, but thin.--Scandent or erect shrubs, with alternate penninerved leaves 3-nerved at base. Stipules small, deciduous. Flowers small, in axillary cymes or clusters. Leaves and cym...