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fruits, and the latter for the reasons I have already stated: and besides, the 
flowers of the T. Bellirica of Retzius, which in the Hindwi dialect is called 
Bahara, have an abominable stercoraceous smell, while Rheede says of his 
plant “ flores suaveolentes." 
In the woods of Southern India (Buchanan's Mysore, i. 183.) I found a tree 
called Tari in the dialect of Carnata, and Tani Cai Maram by those of Mala- 
bar, as already stated, which therefore, I have little or no doubt, is the Tani of 
Rheede, although I have not noted the smell of its flowers, by which chiefly it 
is distinguished from the Terminalia Bellirica. Specimens were given to Sir 
J. E. Smith under the name of Terminalia or Myrobalanus Taria, and I shall 
here annex a description. 
Arbor magna, ligno firmo, albido, non resinoso, durabili. Ramuli sulco e 
petiolo utrinque decurrente angulati, surculis novis pubescentibus nudi. 
Folia decidua, subopposita, apices versus ramulorum conferta, obovata, 
aliquando acuta, sepius cum acumine obsoleto obtusa, margine cartila- 
gineo integerrima, costata, venosissima, coriacea, eglandulosa; juniora 
pubescentia, adulta utrinque glabra.  Petiolus compressiusculus, margi- 
natus, glaber, supra medium glandula, state sæpe evanida, utrinque in- 
structus, brevis, non stipulaceus. 
Spice infrafoliacez vel axillares, petiolo longiores, pubescentes, laxæ, nude, 
solitariz. Flores sparsi: superiores masculini; inferiores in eadem spica 
hermaphroditi. 
Drupa subcarnosa, angulis quinque obsoletis obovata. Nua semine esculento 
monosperma. 
In the collection of specimens which I have given to the library at the India 
House, are those of several varieties of the T'erminalia Bellirica, which, as I 
have said, I can scarcely distinguish from the Tani by any mark, except the 
smell of the flowers; for I found a very considerable difference in the form and 
pubescence of the leaves, in the shape of the nut and seed, and in the presence 
or absence of glands, in the different trees that were admitted by all to be the 
Bahara, the name by which the plant with fetid flowers is known in the Hindwi 
dialect. In some places the Bahara was distinguished into two kinds, the 
great and the small, on account of a difference in the size of the fruit. - The 
