642 



MERRILL. 



KEY TO THK GENERA. 



Petals none, calyx-limb deciduous; trees ]. TtrminaUa 



Petals 4 or 6. 



Calyx limb persistent; leaves alternate; trees of the mangrove swamps. 



2. Lumtiitzera 

 Calyx-limb deciduous] scandent shrubs. 



Flowers small, the calyx-tube above the ovary less than 1 cm long. 



3. Oombretum 

 Flowers rather large, the calyx-tube above the ovary 4 to f> cm long. 



4. Quisqualit 



1. TERMINALIA Linn. 



Fruit ovoid, oblong, or elliptic, sometimes compressed, never winged, hut in some 



species heeled at the edges. | cataita. 



Fruit ellipsoid, strongly compressed and keeled, sbout 5 cm long... 1. '/'. ootappa 



Fruit oblong, very slightly compressed and keeled, about HI cm long. 



2. T. magarapaU 

 Fruit slightly compressed, hardly keeled. 1.5 cm long or less; leaves glandular 



punctate .. 3> T ,,j lllif . 



Fruit not at all compressed or keeled. 



Inflorescence of paniculate spikes 4 T.comintana 



Inllorescence of simple spikes; leaves glandular-punctate ami with -lands in 

 the axils of the nerves; petioles usually with from 1 to :5 glands. 

 Spikes rather strongly pubesee.it; leaves HI to IS cm long; fruits ellipsoid 

 or ovoid, not or very obscurely apiculate. ahout ."> cm long. 



5. '/'. oocarpa 

 Spikes glabrous; leaves 7 to 12 cm long; fruits oblong-ovoid ami strongly 



apiculate or ovoid and scarcely apiculate, 4 cm long or less. 

 Petioles and midribs usually somewhat pubescent, the former with :; 1. 



or no "lands near the apex; fruits less than 2.5 cm long. 



ti. 7'. pellucida 



Leaves entirely glabrous, very strongly shining and usually dark-brown 

 when dry. the petioles usually with two glands at ahout the middle; 

 fruits ahout 4 cm long, strongly apiculate .„. 7. T.niten* 



Fruit elliptic or narrowly elliptic, its edges produce,! into two broad, coriaceous 



»ingS. S lil.U.ATA. 

 Inllorescence. young 1, ranches, petioles ami under surfaces of the leaves softly 



ferruginous-pubescent ; fruit, including the wings, (> em wide., s. T. blanooi 



Leaves glabrous beneath 0. r. caiamanganai 



Fruit equally or subequally 2-3 4 winged, the wings less than 5 mm wide; leaves 



ovate-elliptic to orbicular-elliptic spikes panicled 10. T.polyantha 



Fruit equally 4 winged, the wings sulmiemhranaceous. ] to 1.:) cm wide; leaves 

 oblong -obovate to elliptic-obovate, 15 to 2."i cm long..... 11. T. quadrialata 



I. Terminalia catappa Linn. Mant. (1771) 519; Book. f. Fl. Brit. End. 2 

 (1S78) 444; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1SS0) SO; Merr. in Qovt. Lab. Publ. (Philip) 

 17 (1904) 35. 



T. latifoUa Blanco Fl. Filip. (18:S7) 376, non 8w. 



T. nuiuritinna Pdanco 1. c. ed. 2 (1845) 2(54. ed. :{. 2: 126, nun Lam. 



Throughout the Philippines at low altitudes, especially near the sea. and 

 somewhat cultivated as a Shade tree. India to Malaya ami Polynesia; planted in 



most tropical countries. 



