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446 LViii. coMBEETACEj;. (C. B. Clarke.) [TerminaMa.^ 



6. T. Chebula, Betz Obs. v. 31 ; leaves not clustered often sulwpposite 

 ovate or elliptic usually acute not acuminate and rounded at the base, spikes 

 tenmnal often panicled, fruit |-1:^ in. ellipsoidal or obovoid from a broad base, 

 glabrous more or less 5-ribbed when dry. Roxh, Sort, Beng. 33, Cor. PI t 

 197. FL Ind. ii. 433 : DC. Pi-odr. iii. 12 : Wall Cat. 3967 ; W, Sc A. Prodr. 



.456. 



313 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat i. pt. i. 601 ; Bah ^ Oihs. Bomb. FL 91 ) Bet 

 Sylv, t. 27 ; Brand. For. FL 223 and t. 29 ; Kurz For. FL Brit. Burma 

 T. reticulata, Roth. Nov. Sp. 381 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 13. T. Aruta, Ham. in G. 

 Don Gen. Syst. ii. 659. Myrobalanus Ohebula, Gaertn. Fi'uct. ii. t. 97. Em- 

 brvoffonia arborea. Tevs. 8: Binn. No. 2160 in Hort. Boa. 



Abundant in Northern India from Kumaon to Bengal, and southward to the 

 Deccan table lands at 1000-3000 ft. alt., and Ceylon, Burma and the Malat 

 Pekinsuia. — DiSTRiB. Siam, Malaya. 



Attains 80-100 ft. Leaves 4-5 in., deciduous in the cold season, more or bss 

 hairy when young; petiole about 1 in. often with two glands near its summit, ii^- 

 ■cemes terminal. Bracteoles conspicuous in the young spikes, exceeding the flowers 

 pubescent, but soon deciduous. Flowers all hermaphrodite. Ca^vor- teeth hairy . 

 within. 



Vae. 1, t(/pica; adult leaves nearly glabrous beneath or the interstices of the 

 ultimate nerves with minute sunk white tomentnm, young ovary shaggy without, calyx- 

 teeth without glabrous. — Deccan, Ceylon, and Burma and Malay Peninsula. ^ 



Var. 2 ( T. citrina of authors partly) differs from vai\ 1 only in having the 

 young ovary quite glabrous; it has the ovate fruit and round-based leaves of i* 

 Chebula. Common in Northern India from Kumaon to Bengal, and in Cnota 



Nagpore. 



shaggy 



TAK. o, ttuuii; leaves very snaggy oeneaui, irmc mucn smauer, uii^^?" — j ■* , 



Gnarled small trees on the summit of Parasnath in Behar alt. 4000 ft. : but pass t)y 

 degrees into var. 2 the common form at the base of Parasnath. ^^ 



Var. 4, tomentdla, Kurz For. FL BriL Burma i. 455 {sp.)\ leaves when yout« 

 densely coppery-pubescent beneath, when adult pubescent or glabrous beneath, you^S 

 ovary glabrous, fruit ovoid hardly 1 in. Pegu, up to 2000 ft. alt.; Kurz.-^o^si 

 reckoned, perhaps rightly, a species by Kurz, but the loiives are less hairy, the fruits 

 less reduced in size than those of the preceding var. ^ 



^ Vab. 5, gangetica; Eoxh. J^ovL Beng. 33 and FL hid. ii. 437 {?V^\ ^^^l^j^l? 

 with brown-red silky hairs on both surfaces. Wall. Cat. 3967 E. ; i%. 'P^- f^' ^.^ 

 i. pt. i. 602. Banks of the Ganges ; Roxhurgh. North-west India, cult. Edgeworin. 

 Very unlike the typical Chebula by the brown silky hair which covers ^he twig« 

 leaves and whole inflorescence. It may be a good species but the fruit is si^ni^r^ * 

 that of CA^ow/a.—Eoxburgh remarks that this tree ripens its fruit on the banJcs 

 ^e Ganges, a remark he would hardly have made had he thought the tree indigeno - 

 It is tlierefore likely that T. ga^igetica, Eoxh. does not grow wild within the limus 

 the Indian Flora. . . 



Vak 6, parviflora, Thwaites Enum, 103 (sp.) ; calyx-teeth pubescent "^f^^' 

 T. zeylanica Heurck # MmlL Arg. Obs. Bot. 220. Ceyixjn ; T/.^aito.— The floj^ 



are not smaller nor the fruits more acutely ribbed than in some examples o^ ; 

 Chebula. '^ 



and lateral often pai 

 scurely 5-angular. 

 pt.i. 602. Myrobalr 

 Brand. For. FL 223. 



iro7t. Beng. 33, FL Ind. ii. 435 ; leaves suhj 

 iiminate narrowed into the petiole, spikes ^er^ 





Assam, East Bekgal, Euema and Tenassbhim ; frequent. Malacca at itf^H 

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