| | | description='''Plants:''' Handsome evergreen trees, 6-9 M. (20-30°) high, truck .3-.5 M. (12-18') thick, young twigs slightly quadrangular; leaves coriaceous, 3-5-nerved, but only midrib reaches apex, bright glossy-green above, glaucous beneath, 10-20 Cm. (4-8') long; flowers Jan.-March, small, hermaphrodite or polygamous, fleshy, black, ovoid, size of small olive, adhering, like acorn, to cup-shaped perianth. | | | description='''Plants:''' Handsome evergreen trees, 6-9 M. (20-30°) high, truck .3-.5 M. (12-18') thick, young twigs slightly quadrangular; leaves coriaceous, 3-5-nerved, but only midrib reaches apex, bright glossy-green above, glaucous beneath, 10-20 Cm. (4-8') long; flowers Jan.-March, small, hermaphrodite or polygamous, fleshy, black, ovoid, size of small olive, adhering, like acorn, to cup-shaped perianth. |
| − | '''Bark:''' (''C. Loureirii, + --?''): Saigon, in quills, 30 Cm. (12') long, 3-30 Mm. (1/8-1 1/5') broad; bark .5-3 Mm. (1/50-1/8') thick, light brown, dark purplish-brown with grayish patches of folaceous lichens and numerous bud-scars, finely wrinkled, especially that of younger twigs, otherwise rough from corky patches surrounding the lenticels; inner surface reddish-brown, granular, slightly striate; fracture short--inner bark porus from large oil and mucilage cells, and separated from the outer by a layer of stone cells. | + | '''Bark:''' (''C. Loureirii, + --?''): ''Saigon'', in quills, 30 Cm. (12') long, 3-30 Mm. (1/8-1 1/5') broad; bark .5-3 Mm. (1/50-1/8') thick, light brown, dark purplish-brown with grayish patches of folaceous lichens and numerous bud-scars, finely wrinkled, especially that of younger twigs, otherwise rough from corky patches surrounding the lenticels; inner surface reddish-brown, granular, slightly striate; fracture short--inner bark porus from large oil and mucilage cells, and separated from the outer by a layer of stone cells. |
