Flora Indica: Or, Descriptions of Indian Plants, Volumen2Printed at the Mission Press, 1824 |
Términos y frases comunes
acuminate acute Anthers apex ash-coloured axils bark base Beng Berry blossoms border botanic garden bractes branches branchlets calyx Capsule cell ciliate clavate colour cordate corol corolla Corymbs Cotyledons cylindric densely downy Drupe elevated entire erect fascicled filaments filiform five five-parted five-toothed fleshy flowers four fruit garden at Calcutta Germ globular hairy half an inch inferior inserted lacinia lanceolate leaflets Leaves alternate Leaves opposite length linear lobes margins native nearly nectary nerves Nipal numerous oblique oblong obovate obtuse one-celled oval Ovary ovate ovula Panicles pedicels Peduncles Peduncles axillary perisperm petals petioled plant pubescent Racemes Radicle ramous recurved Rheed ripen round Schreb seeds segments serrate sessile shining short short-petioled shorter shrub Shrubby Silhet six inches slender slightly smooth solitary species spreading stamens Stamina Stem Stigma Stipules Style sub-sessile subulate tapering terminal ternate thick three inches long tree tube twining two-celled two-lobed umbel underneath unequal villous Willd young shoots
Pasajes populares
Página 180 - Seeds numerous, angular. Obs. — The flowers of this species are perfectly similar to those of the preceding, but the fruit presents a singular anomaly in being polyspermous. Both differ so much from the other species• of Morinda that I think they might properly constitute a new and distinct genus. EUTHEMIS.— WJ Fentandria Monogynia.
Página 238 - ... which is then left to settle ; in a very short time the impurities fall to the bottom, leaving the water clear and, so far as I have been able to learn, perfectly wholesome.
Página 307 - Circars medicinally, but when ripe are eaten by the natives, and also most greedily by several sorts of birds, being of a sweetish taste. The wood is soft, and of little use except for fuel. It is reckoned one of the best kinds for kindling fire by friction, and is thought to have furnished the wood from which the Egyptians constructed their mummy cases.
Página 276 - Epacrideae, a family almost exclusively confined to Australasia or at least to the southern hemisphere. Singapore, situated at the extremity of the Malay peninsula, and forming as it were the connecting link between continental or Western India and the islands of the great Eastern Archipelago, partakes of this character in its Flora, which exhibits many remarkable points of coincidence with the Floras of both regions. I have had occasion to observe resemblances between its productions and those of...
Página 278 - ... alternating with these are sometimes found 5 short abortive filaments. Filaments very short Anthers longer,. erect, conniving round the style, oblong, prolonged into acumina, which are sometimes a little contorted, and which open at their summits by a pore, the cells are adnate below to the sides of the filament. Ovary oblong, acute. Style filiform, erect, equal to the stamina. Stigma simple. Berry snow-white, globular, obscurely angled, crowned with the persistent style, which is obliquely deflexed...
Página 399 - Meliacea^ on the inside of an ovate nectarial tube, which is contracted at the mouth, and conceals the anthers. The stigma is large, sessile, simple as far as I have observed, not double as stated by Loureiro. The ovary appears to be i-celled, and to contain 2 pendulous ovula.
Página 410 - I/rid on the point of a knife and held in the flame of a candle, it readily melts, catches flame, and burns with a cracking noise; emitting a smell exceedingly like that of Cashew nuts when roasting. It softens in the mouth, and adheres to the teeth. Its taste is slightly bitter with some degree of pungency. It dissolves almost entirely in spirits, and in a great measure in water ; both solutions are milky with a small tinge of brown.
Página 356 - Every part of this shrub has a strong pungent taste. The roots when fresh cut smell particularly so. The fresh LEAVES are eaten raw for pains in the bowels ; the ripe berries are fully as pungent as black pepper, and with nearly the same kind of pungency; they are pickled by the Natives, and a most excellent one they make.
Página 278 - Cotyledons semicylindric, obtuse. Radicle superior, longer than the cotyledons. The branches are terminated by long corniculate buds, in which the gemmation is involute. EUTHEMIS MINOR.— WJ Foliis angusto-lanceolatis leviter serrulatis, racemis simplicibusi baccis rubris angulatis acuminatis.
Página 278 - Leaves alternate, petiolate, linear, lanceolate, rather obtuse with a mucro, attenuated to the petiole, slightly serrulate, very smooth, shining, finely striated with transverse veins. Petioles short, thickened at the base, channelled above. Stipules linear, ciliate. Racemes simple, erect, at first terminal, becoming afterwards lateral. Flowers alternate, pedicellate, often in pairs. There is a single leaf-like bract, and several smaller ones at the base of the pedicels, less deciduous than in the...