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Title: Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire
Identifier: CUbiodiversity690553 (find matches)
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Brandis, Dietrich, Sir, 1824-1907
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: London : A. Constable & Co. , Ltd
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Mann Library, Cornell

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602 C. MOEACE^ (Ficus A lar^-e deciduous tree, often &tem-clasiomg, entirely glabrous. L. broad-ovate, base rounded or truncate and narrowed into the joetiole, tail ^-1 m., pet. 2-3 in. bug, basal n. 3-5 pair. Pr. sessile, J in. diam., black -when ri^De, basal bracts small. 20. F Axnottiana, Miq.; King, Ann. i. t. 68. Vern. Pipar, Paras Pipal, Hind. Tons valle^^, Jaunsar, 4,000 ft. Garliwal. Ajmere. Central Provinces. Bebar. Cbutia Kagpur. Western Peninsula, in the Deccan and near the coast. A large shrub or small tree, often epiphytic, also creeping over rocks, 1. broad-ovate, base cordate, pet. 1-5 in. long, basal n. 5-7 pair, stipules large. Pr, often pecluncled, J~^ in. diani.. densely clustered, basal bracts membranous. tail J-1 often
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21. F. infec- toria, Roxb. ; Wigbt Ic. t. 665 ; King, Ann. i. tt. 75-79. Vern. Palakh, Pilkhan^ Punjab; Eliahar^ Pakhar, Hind.; j.v.66j JL n 3j n 8i« I Jtovvij Tel.; Bas- sari^ Kan. ; Jovi, Tarn.; Chela . MaL A large widely spreading decid- iious fast-growing tx^ee, young shoots and stipules min- utely hairy. L. thinly coriaceous^ glabrous, shining^ ovate or ovate- short 1J oblong, acuminate, mar- gin u n d n 1 a t e^ base acute, rounded or cord- ate, blade 3-6, pet. 1-3 in. long, sec. n. 8-10 pair, the lowest pair from the base, 'Ft. sessile or shortly peduncled, ;-J-in. diam.jbasal bracts minute. Su.leinian range, __ ^ _ Translndus. Mount Fig. 186.—Picus infectoria, Eoxb. 4. Tilla, Salt range, common in crevices of rocks. Subhimalayan tract and outer hills, ascending to 5,000 ft. Common in Northern India, the Central Provinces, Berar and the Western Peninsula. Forests east of Toungoo (Kurz). Pr. Pebr.-June.—Ceylon, Malaya. China. Yar. Lamhertiana has broader 1. and larger fr. on pubescent pedicels. 22. F. genicTJlata, Xurz 5 King, Ann. i. t. 80. Vern. Nifam^g thahye^ Burm. Sikkim, hot valleys. Bhutan. Khasi hills. Chittagong. Lower Burma. —Malay Penins. and Archip. A large deciduous usually epiphytic tree, branchlets stout, prominently marked with the scars of fallen 1., extremities and stipules minutely silky. L. coriaceous, glabrous, shining, elliptic or ovate, blade 4-7, pet. 3-5 in., long. Pr. sessile or nearly so, J--J in. diam., yellowi-nh- red, dotted when ripe, basal bracts broadly ovate, 23. F. insignis, Kurz. Dry forests of the Prome district. A middle-sized tree, jjrobably evergreen, similar to 22, branchlet<?, stipules and receptacles gx-ey- or tawny-tomentose, fr. ^ in» diam., greyish-white with pink dots on short thick tomentose peduncles.

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