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432 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.  Terminala 
two to three inches long, with two opposite glands on the 
upper side of the apex, and sometimes near the base. 
Spikes axillary; solitary, simple, erect. . Flowers small, of 
a dirty grey colour. The male flowers towards the apex of 
the spike, the hermaphrodite ones below. Calyx, stamens, 
and pistillum as in the genus. Drupe oval, somewhat 
pentagonal, the size of a nutmeg, fleshy, covered bid a 
grey silky down. Embryo inverse, &c. 
The kernels of the fruit are eaten by the natives ise 
taste like filberts, but are reckoned intoxicating, when 
eaten in any quantity. Hereabouts they do not use any 
part of the fruit in medicine, so far as I can learn. 
Wood white, rather soft, durable and seldom used. 
From wounds in the bark, large quantities of an insipid 
gum issues, it much resembles Gum arabic, is perfect 
ly soluble in water, burns away in the flame of a candle, — 
with little smell, into black gritty ashes. 
The flowers have a_ strong offensive smell, not unlike i 
those of Sterculia pide fie 
4. T. moluccana. Willd. 4. 968. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oblong, entire, pail 
without glands. Spikes axillary. Flowers rotate. Drupé — 
obovate, villous. ough ie 
Sans. Kala Drooma. 3 
The dry fruit of this tree, of which there are two varie- 
ties, a larger and a smaller both growing in this garden 
are so very like the real Beleric myrobalans, the pr0- 
duce ofmy Terminalia Belerica. Corom. pl. 2. N.198. 45 — 
to be sold by the native druggists as such, under the 
Hindoo name Bohura, which is their name for that 
drug. The trees which produce the above-mentioned : 
large, and smaller sorts, are exactly alike in every other — 
‘Tespect except in the size of the fruit. They are natives of 
the various mountainous countries North Kast of Bet ae 
