Terminalia, DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 435 
long, and about one inch in diameter, smooth, of a pale 
greenish yellow, very obscurely five-angled; one-celled. 
Pulp in considerable quantity, hard and yellowish. Nut 
oblong, thick and very hard, with surface rough, the irre- 
gularly and obscurely five-grooved, one-celled, Seed so- 
litary, lanceolate. Integument membranaceous. Peris- 
perm none. Embryo conform to the seed, inverse. | Co- 
tyledons thin, and large, and spirally rolled up round 
each other, and the lower part of the cylindrig; superior 
radicle, 
The tender leaves, while scarce unfolded, are said to be 
punctured by an insect, and its eggs deposited therein, 
which by the extravasation of the sap, become enlarged 
into hollow galls of various shapes and sizes, but rarely 
exceeding an inch in diameter. They are powerfully as- 
tringent, and make as good ink as oak galls. They also 
yield the chintz painters on the Coast of Coromandel, 
their best and most durable yellow. They are called by 
the Tamuls Kadu-kai, and by the Telingas Aldicai, and 
are very like the Faba Bengalensis of our Materia Me- 
dica. 
6. T. citrina. Roxb. 
' Leaves sub-opposite, oblong, with a tapering base, 
smooth, acute, having two small glands on the apex of the 
petiole. Panicles terminal and axillary. Nut ere winge: 
Myrabolanas Citrina. Gert. sem. 2. 91. t. 97. 
“A very large, and tall timber tree, a native of the va- 
rious extensive forests on the eastern frontier of Bengal 
where it is called Hurituki; it blossoms there in April 
and May, and the seed ripens in November. 
The fruit of this, like that of T. chebula, is an article of 
import in Hindoo Materia Medica and generally, I be- 
lieve, pass under the same name, so much alike are they, 7 
and pesos Hthemost _ employed as gentle sent 
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