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. 1885 Excerpt: ...calyx tubular deciduous. DC. Prodr. 9, p. 281. Six&apobe; Prince (Ic. Ined. Kew).--Distbib. Java. Scarcely differs from C. bicolor. The leaves are often rhomboid or crenate at the base, the peduncles very short not decurved. Order CVII. BIGNONIACE . (By . B. Ciarte.) Trees (Nyclocalos a large climber, Amphicome a herb) ...
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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. 1885 Excerpt: ...calyx tubular deciduous. DC. Prodr. 9, p. 281. Six&apobe; Prince (Ic. Ined. Kew).--Distbib. Java. Scarcely differs from C. bicolor. The leaves are often rhomboid or crenate at the base, the peduncles very short not decurved. Order CVII. BIGNONIACE . (By . B. Ciarte.) Trees (Nyclocalos a large climber, Amphicome a herb). Leaves opposite, rarely whorled (in Amphicome alternate), 1-2-3-pinnate or sometimes undivided. Panicles or racemes terminal, rarely on short lateral branches; bracts inconspicuous; flowers showy, hermaphrodite, irregular. Calyr gamosepalous, campanulate (in the Indian species), valvate, spathaceous or 2-5-lobed. Corolla tubular-ventricose; mouth 2-lipped; lobes 5, subequal or slightly unequal, bilabiately imbricate in the bud. Stamens 4, didynamous, rudiment of the fifth often present (5 subequal in Oroxylum); inserted at the point where the corolla-tube is suddenly swollen; filaments linear, glabrous or hairy only at the base; anthers 2-celled, included or rarely shortly exserted; cells elliptic or narrowly oblong, dehiscing by longitudinal slits, parallel or divaricate. Disc usually cnshion-like or annular. Ovary subsessile, 2-celled; style long glabrous, stigma of 2 elliptic lobes; ovules in many rows (in Amphicome in 1-2 rows) grouped in a double series in each cell, anatropous. Capsule mostly elongate, loculicidally or septicidally 2-valved; septum in fruit enlarged, deciduous together with the placenta. Seeds compressed discoid (rarely subtrigonous) prominently winged, exalbuminous.--Species 450, in the tropics of the whole world, a few in the warm temperate zones of both hemispheres. Herb. Leaves alternate, 1-pinnate 11. Amphicome. Large climber. Leaves opposite, trifoliolate 1. Nyctocalos. Tree. Leaves opposite, 2-3-...
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Add this copy of The Flora of British India; Volume 4 to cart. $29.16, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2022 by Legare Street Press.
Add this copy of The Flora of British India; Volume 4 to cart. $38.60, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2022 by Legare Street Press.
