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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v--- Spatholohus) XLV. LEGUMINOS^ 229 15. SPATHOLOBUS, Hassk. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 193. Woody climbers, with pinnately trifoliolate leaves, leaflets stipellate, the two lateral opposite. Fl. small, in ample terminal panicles. Stamens dia- delphous, anthers uniform, obtuse. Pod coriaceous, one seed at the end, lower portion indehiscent. 16 species ; 9 Indian, 1 in tropical Africa, the rest in the Malayan region.
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Fig. 98.— Spatholobus Eoxburgliii, Benth. Pod, leaf. ^. 1. S. Roxburghii, Benth.—Syn. Butea parvijiora^ Poxb.; Wight Ic. t. 210; Kurz F. Fl. i. 365. Vern. Maula, Mula, Hind.; Phalsan, Mar. ; AthamhUj Mai.; Pauk-mve^ Burm. A huge climber, the stem fluted, often attaining 12-16 in. diam. The layers of bast, which separate the masses of xylem, exude a red gum when cut. Young shoots, inflorescence and underside of leaflets grey velvety. Leaflets 6-8 in. long, longer than broad, secondary nerves prominent beneath, 6-8 pair, arcuate, anastomosing by intra-marginal veins. Fl. fascicled in cylindrical panicled racemes, white, ^-; in. long, calyx teeth triangular acute, nearly as

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