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numerous, stopping at or bent round the pores or groups of pores. The 

 wood takes a good polish and is fairly durable; it is used for furniture, 

 carts, agricultural implements, and house building. Beddome Bays it 

 is cross-grained and difficult to work. 



Gamb. 338-340, tab. VII, fig. 6j N6rd. VIII; Walt Diet, 6*:24. 



Terminalia citrina Roxb., ami T. mgustifolia Roxb., of this section are two 

 Indian species of local importance. 



SUBGENUS 2, PENTAPTERA. 



Terminalia arunja Bedd. Arjun (Beng.). 

 Western India and Ceylon. 



Sapwood reddish-white; heartwood with darker-colored Btreaks, rery 



hard and heavy. Seasonal rings doubtful. Pores moderate-sized and 

 laro-e, sometimes very large, uniformly distributed, more numerous and 

 larger than in T. tomentosa, often subdivided into 2 to 1 compartments, 

 each pore surrounded by a ring of wood parenchyma. Numerous, thin, 

 wavy, concentric lines, which frequently anastomose. Pittl-ravs very 

 fine and numerous. Wood apt to split in seasoning and not easy to work. 

 Used for carts, agricultural implements, boats, and for building purposes. 

 Gamb. 341; Van Eed. 12(i; N5rd. IX (7'. macrooarpa Steud.). 



Terminalia oliveri Brandis. Than (Burm.). 



Burma. 



Wood hard, close- and even-grained, resembling that, of T. chebula; 

 sapwood yellow to gray; heartwood purplish-brown, streaked and clouded, 

 very irregular. Pores small or very small, numerous, often subdivided, 

 singly or in groups surrounded by patches of loose tissue which run into 

 more or less concentrically arranged bands. Pith-rays fine and very fine, 

 numerous, regular. 



Gamb. 340. 



Terminalia tomentosa W. & A. 



India, Ceylon. 



Sapwood reddish-white; heartwood dark-brown, bard, beautifully 

 variegated with streaks of darker color, showing on a radial section as 

 dark streaks which are generally undulating. Pores moderate-sized and 

 large, uniformly distributed, each pore inclosed in an irregularly shaped 

 and generally elongated patch of wood parenchyma : these patches are 

 often arranged in concentric lines and frequently joined by than, wavy, 

 concentric bands. Pith-rays not distinct, very line, numerous, uniform, 

 equidistant, often wavy, the transverse diameter of the pores many 

 times larger than the distance between the rays. House building, carts, 

 rice-pounders, ship and boat building, railroad lie-. 



Gamb. 341-344; Nord. VIII; Watt Diet, 6 4 : 37-41. 



