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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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350 LYIII. ARALIACEiS (Iledera pentameroiiSj in globose umbels. Petals valvate, ovary 5-celledj styles connate. Berry bright yellow, seeds 3-4j albumen ruminate. Afghanistan. Punjab Salt range. Himalaya, Hazara to Bhntan 2-9,000 ft. Khasi liills. IVIanipur. PL Oct.-April. Europe, Nortli Africa, Western Asia. China. Japan. The berries of the European Ivy are usually black. 4. DENDROPANAX, Dene. & Planch.; El Brit. Ind. ii, 733. Gilihertia^ Euiz et Pavon ; Harms in Engler u. Prantl iii. %. 40. Unarmedj glabrous trees or shrubs. L. simple entire, on coppice shoots and young plants palmately 3-5-lobed. El. umbellate, pedicels not articulate.
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Pia. 147.—Gamblea ciliata, C B. Clarke. \, Petals 5, thick, valvate in bud. Ovary 5-celled, styles united at the base into a column, their summits spreading. Er. ribbed, seeds compressed, albumen uni- form. Species 12, mostly American. 1. D. japonicum, Seem. Khasi hills. China, Japan. A tree with strong smell of Asafoe- tida. L. on young plants and coppice shoots deeply pahnatifid with long petioles, on older plants elliptic-lanceolate, pemiinerved, blade 8-6, petiole 1-3 in. long. Umbels many- lid., solitary or few in a short terminal panicle, Pr. ellipsoid nearly J in, long. 2.
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