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Terminalia.'] lviii. combeetace^. (C. B. Clarke.) 445 



obscure or wanting, glabrous when adult ; petiole ^ in. Upper flowers of the spikes 

 Hiale, lower hermaphrodite. Fruit 1-1^ in. — Much resembles T, Catappa. 



8. T. foetidisslmap Griff, Notvl. iv. 685 ; leaves alternate clustered 

 towards the ends of the branches, obovate attenuated into the petiole, spikes 

 solitary axillary simple, fruit \^ in. obovate ellipsoid subacute, compressed with, 

 one face convex the other flat. 



Meegvi and Malacca ; Griffith, Malacca, Maingay ^o. 644, 643^. 



Leaves 6 in., glaucescent reticulate beneath, coriaceous with cartilaginous margin, 



without glands ; petiole 1 in. Flowers all or very nearly all hermaphrodite. Young 



ovary and bracts very hairy. Calyx-tQt\h. glabrous or nearly so within and without- 

 Reduced by Mr. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc, 1877 pt. ii. 53, 54, to T, belerica; from 



"Which it diiFers so greatly in leaves and fruit that it raises a suspicion whether Mr. 



Kurz had the true plant of Griffith before him. 



4. T. belerica, Hoxb. Char. Reform, ; leaves alternate clustered towards 

 the ends of the branches broadly elliptic narrowed equally at both ends, petiole 

 very long, spikes solitary axillary simple, fruit |~| m. dlam. globular suddenly 

 narrowed into a short stalk smooth covered by a close fulvous tomentum, when 

 dried obscurely 5-angled. 



Throughout India ; common in the plains and lower hills, extending to Ceylon 

 and Malacca ; not in the desert region of the West of India. — Distrib. Malaya. 



Attains 60-80 ft. Leaves 3-6 in., deciduous in the cold season, when mature- 

 glabrous and generally punctate on the upper surface ; the punctations being much 

 more permanent than in the other species (whence Eoth's name); petiole l-l^ in. 

 Bracteoles minute. Upper flowers of the spikes male, lower hermaphrodite. Young 

 i?''^ always tomentose. Ca?j/a:-teeth pubescent within and without. T. moluccana, 



?• -Tf ^^^^' -^^^- i- pt. i. 601 differs from belerica by its short petioles; the de- 

 Scnptidn appears compounded out of two plants. 



Vab. 1. typica ; no glands at the apex of the petiole. T. belerica, Bedd. FL Sylv. 

 ^ 19 ; T. egiandulosa, Roxb. Herb, {wrongly referred in Witld. ^. PL iv. 968) ; 

 T. moluccana, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 33. FL Ind, ii. 432; T. belerica, W. # A, Prodr. 

 313 excL syn. WalL Cat. 3968; Wight Ic. t. 91; Thwaites Enum. 103; Balz. ^ 

 ^s. Bomb. FL 91; Brand. For, FL 222 ; Kurz For. FL Brit. Burma i. 455 ; Rheede- 

 HotL MaL iv. t. 10. T. Gelia, Balz, in Hook. Kew Joum. iii. 227. T. punctata. 

 ^oth Kov, Sp. 381 : DC. Prodr. iii. 13. Myrobalanus belerica, Gaerin. Fruct, ii. 

 t. 97. 



Var, 2. belerica, Eoxb. Hort. Eeng, 33, Cor. PL t. 198, FL Ind. ii. 431; two 

 giands at the apex of the petiole beneath the leaf. DC. Prodr. iii. 12; Miq. Ft. Ind. 

 ^«^. i. pt. i. 600.— Circar Mts., Roxb, ; also Malaya, if T. microcarpa, Decne. Herb, 

 ^mor. 129 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat i. pt. i. 602 ; Benih. FL AustraL ii. 502 be referred 

 ^ere: the examples in the Kew Herbarium exactly agree but do not show the fruit. 



It is remarkable that not one specimen of this typical fe^^ica- Roxb. exists at 

 ^e^; and that both W. & A. (Prodr. 313) and Erandis (Forest FL 222) expressly 

 state that they have never been able to discover a single example. The distinction 

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 ^*o glands, thereby diifering from his T, egiandulosa, which ho subsequently renamed 



' ^^^^ccana, Willd., a species made up of two trees. 



,-.Vau. 3. laurinoides, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 600; leaves obovate or obovate- 

 ^iptic shortly acuminate much thinner than in the typical bvlerica. Mergui; 

 ';^mh. Ceylon; Thwaites, Gardner, CoL Walker.- Dismm. Java, Malaya. T. 

 "'tens PresL EpimeL 214 is very near but has long subpersistent bracteoles. 

 ^ T. bialata i~s much mixed (in absence of fruit) with T. belerica, but may generally 



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