580 POXW0HTHY. 



Terminalia. The woods of the Pentaptera and Chuncoa sections are 

 dark-colored, rather like, but darker and rougher than walnut; those of 

 the Catappa section are lighter in color, hut have occasionally an irregular 

 dark heartwood. In the former class the pores are larger and the texture 

 rather more open, hut in this respect 7'. belerka comes between the two. 

 In all, the pores are in patches or single, and these patches are more or 

 lees concentrically confluent, and in all the pith-rays are fine, numerous, 

 and uniform. The wood of T. oliveri resembles that of T. chebula in tin: 

 Catappa section, hut has smaller pores. 



SUBGENUS 1, CATAPPA. 



Terminalia catappa L. "The Indian almond;" "Malabar almond;" talisai 



(Guam) : talisny, dalisai (Phil.); talio (Samoa): kaorika. kauarika (Kara- 



tonga); tavola (Fiji); kamani (Hawaii); almendro (Spanish America); bada- 

 mier (French); saori (Solomon Islands); tipop, tipapop (Ponape, Caroline 

 [elands); badam (Beng.) ; kottamba (Cing.)i Icatapang (Malay). 



Madagascar, British India and Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago to 

 New Guinea and Polynesia; cultivated in all the tropics. 



W I led, with Lighter-colored sapwood, hard. Pores moderate-sized, 



scanty, joined by wavy, short, concentric hands of wood parenchyma. 

 Pith-rays fine. Troughs, carts, posts, planks, etc. 



(Jamb. 337; SafTord 385; Watt Diet. 6:22; Phil. Woods 303; Ridl. 173; 

 K. & V. 9:27; Van Eed. 129. 



Terminalia belerica Roxb. Behara (Hind.); bohera (Beng.); tain (Tarn.); 

 bulfi (Cing. ) ; tbitsein (Burm.). 



British India, Ceylon, Burma, Malacca. 



Wood yellowish-gray, hard, no heartwood, not durable, readily attacked 



by insects; seasonal rings indistinct. Tores very scanty, hum', frequently 

 divided, joined by irregular, wavy, concentric hands of wood parenchyma. 

 Fine, uniform and equidistant pith-rays distinctly visible in the darker 

 and harder portions between the bands, and on radial section, where, too, 

 the pores are prominent. Planking, packing-cases, canoes, and in north- 

 west India for house building after it has been steeped in water, which 

 renders it more durable. 



Camb. 337, tab. Mil, fu/. ,i ; Nurd. VIII; Wall Diet. 6 4 :22; Van Eed. 120; 

 K. & V. 9:17-20. 



Terminalia chebula Retz. Harra (Hind.). 



British India and Ceylon to Malaya. 



Wood very hard, brownish-gray with a greenish or yellowish tinge, 



with an irregular small dark-purple heartwood, close-grained, fairly 

 durable. Seasonal rings indistinct. Tores small, and moderate-sized, 

 often subdivided, singly or in groups surrounded by small patches of 

 wood parenchyma which are slightly confluent into more or less con- 

 centrically arranged bands. Pith-rays very fine, uniform, equidistant, 



