Identifier: journalofbombayn221913bomb (
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Journal of the Bombay Natural History SocietyYear:
1886 (
1880s)Authors:
Bombay Natural History SocietySubjects:
Natural historyPublisher:
Bombay, Bombay Natural History SocietyContributing Library:
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view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:he stamens. Femaleflowers ovoid, sepals broad, obtuse, imbricate ; petals longer, con-volute: staminodes 6, minute; ovary ovate, three-celled, one-ovuled;style almost wanting ; stigmas 3, triangular. Fruit bright chocolatecoloured, when ripe ovate-globose, rather compressed, -J-f inch indiameter, surrounded at the base by the perianth bearing the stigmatanear the base. Seed subglobose, brown, with a rather deepcomplete furrow, and several other shorter ones. Testa obscurelychestnut-coloured, with veins arising from the groove near theembryo, and converging towards the base on the opposite face.Albumen solid, hornj^. Embryo basilar, conical, nearly one line long. Habitat.—Travancore, 2,500-6,000 feet on precipitous cliffs,local, but very common within its restricted areas. Flowers.—In June: fruit ripens 8-9 months afterwards.Illustration : Plate LV.—The slender thin-stemmed palm,photographed by Mr. Macmillan, grows in the Botanic Garden of JouBN, Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. Plate LVI.Text Appearing After Image:Bentinckia nicobarica, Becc. THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON. 463 Perandeniya. In the lower part of the stem the rings are notvisible owing to a thick crust of lichens. BENTINCKIA NICOBARICA, Becc. lUustraz. di ale. Palme viv. nelGiard. di Buitenz. 165. Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 418 ; Brandis Ind. Trees,647.—Orania nicobarica, Kurz in Journ. Bot. IV, p. 331, t. 171, f. 19-25. Description.—Trunk tall, 60-70 feet high, 9 inches in diameter,annulate. Leaves 5-8 feet; leaflets ^-2 feet, sessile, linear, cria-ceous, tip obtusely 2-lobed; petiole short; rhachis glabrous. Spadix l;^-2 feet long, decompoiuad, glabrous, branches andbranchlets inserted in woolly grooves of the rhachis; bracteolesdensely villous within. Female flowers: sepals and petals subsimilar,broadly ovate, obtuse, shining. Fruits tristichously arranged, globose, 1 inch long, scarlet.Seed ovoid-oblong, ventrally flat, dorsally convex, rugosely ribbed;albumen equable; embryo lateral and apical. Habitat.—Nicobar IsNote About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.