Hand-book of Indian flora Volume 2; being a guide to all the flowering plants hitherto described as indigenous to the continent of India

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. 1866 Excerpt: ...10-12 pair of pinnae, petiole somewhat 4-cornered, leaflets quite entire, half-cordate, acuminate: thyrse panicled, erect, many-flowered: calyx somewhat piilveraceous externally, obscurely 2-lipped: corulla lurid purple, white within, beset with hairs outside. Silhet. (2) P. Rheedii. (R. W.) IdeiU. Wight's Icon. vol. IV. Engrav. Wall. 1. с t. 1343-4.--Rheede Mal. I. t. 44. Spec. Char. Arboreous: leaves unequally pinnate, leaflets Unequal sided, acuminate: calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, lobes emarginate at the points: corolla campanulate, sub-bilabiate, 5-lobed, lobes dilated and crisp on the outer margin, furnished on the edges with a line of dense woolly tomeritum externally, tube glabrous, limb pubescent: longer stamens conniyent: capsule 12-15 inches long, winged, cuspidate: seed orbicular, compressed, winged. Malabar, not unfrequent in the jungles between Coimbatore and Paulgbaut, flowering in July and August. ORDER CXII. PEDALIACEiE. i. Calyx equally 5-lobed: corolla monopetalous, hypogynoua, irregular, throat yentricose, limb ' bilabiate, the limb subvalvate in aestivation: disk hypogynous, fleshy, or sometimes glandular: stamens included-within the tube, didynamous,' with the rudiment of a fifth: anthers adnate, 2-celled: connective articulated with the filament, slightly prolonged beyond the cells, glandular at the point: ovary seated on a glandular disk, formed of 2 capellary leaves, anterior and posterior as regarda the axis, at first 1-celled, afterwards divided into 2, 4 or 6 /jpurious cells: style 1, simple: stigma bilamellate: fruit capBular or drupaceous, dehiscent or indéhiscent, few, Qrmjny. seeded: seed (in Sesamum attached to an easily separable 4sided central placenta) winged or wingless, exalbuminous: embryo straight: cotyledons...