Illustrations of Indian botany; or figures illustrative of each of the natural orders of Indian plants, described in the author's prodromus florae peninsulae Indiae orientalis

by Robert Wight

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. 1840 ...with 2 superposed ovules in each. Scandent armed shrubs, with ternate, or simple leaves, and axillary solitary, or racemose, " pretty large, white, fragrant flowers" (Roxb.) Such a union is however very objectionable as combining two plants, one with the number of petals and cells of the ovary equal, and the other with them unequal. I therefore pursue what I consider the more judicious course, that of forming a genils for the reception of this plant. Luvunga.--Hamilton.--The following is Roxburgh's description of the fructification of his Limonia scandetis, now Luvunga, Flora Indica, 2 page 3S0 "Calyx 1-leaved, cylindric with the mouth cut into four short, truncate divisions. Petals 4, linear oblong, fleshy, recurved. Filaments 8; the lower half united into a firm, fleshy tube. Anthers linear, incumbent. Germ conical, elevated on a fleshy receptacle, 3-ce!led with 2 vertical ovula in each, attached to the axis. Style cylindric. Stigma entire, roundish. Berry oblong, somewhat 3-lobed, size of a pigeon's egg, pretty smooth, pulp of a resinous nature, and odoriferous, 3-celled. Seed solitary, oval, somewhat pointed at the apex, covered with a single greenish-veined integument. Perisperm none. Embryo conform to the seed, inverse. Cotyledons oblong, green, fleshy. Plumula 2 lobed. Radicle ovate, superior." Two species of this genus are named in Wallich's list, namely, L. scandetis and L. Tavoyana--Roxburgh thus characterizes the former, his Lirnonia scandens " Shrubby, scandent, armed, leaves ternate, leaflets lanceolar, flowers racemose,: berries 3-seeded" Roxb. The following character will I think distinguish my new genus from all the others of the order. Paramignva R. W.--Calyx urceolate, obtusely 5-lobed at the apex. Pet...

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Published March 6, 2012