Tectona, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIAy 601 
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Teling. Teck. 
Can. Jaadi, 
Beng. Sagoon, or Segoon, . 
This most useful tree is a native of various jo purts of India, 
viz. the mountainous parts of the Malabar and Coromandel 
coasts, of the mountains bordering on the banks of the Go- 
davuree above Rajamundri, and. of Pegu. Lord Cornwallis 
and Colonel Kyd have sometime since begun to introduce it 
into Bengal, where it thrives well. Ow this coast it flowers in. 
June and July. The seeds ripen in September and October, - 
In Bengal, the leaves are deciduons during the cool'season; _ 
and the new foliage appears in May, a few weeks before the — 
flowers. 4 
Trunk erect, growing to an immense size. Bark asheco: 
loured and scaly. Branches numerous, spreading ; young 
shoots four-sided, sides channelled. Leaves opposite-petiol- 
ed, spreading, oval, a little scolloped, above scabrous, below 
covered with whitish, rather soft down, they are larger at 
a distance from the flowers and on young trees, viz. from 
twelve to twenty-four inches long, and’ from eight to sixteen 
broad. Petioles short, thick, Jaterally compressed.  Pani- 
cles terminal, very large, cross-armed ; divisions dichotomous, 
with a sessile fertile flower in each cleft ; the whole covered - 
with a hoary coloured, farinaceous substance, Peduneles 
common, quadrangular ; sides deeply chamnelled, angles ob- 
tuse. Bractes opposite, lanceolate, two at each sub-division, 
Flowers small, white, very numerous. Calyx and corol as 
described by Konig, only oftener six than five-cleft. Nee- 
tary very small, frsqacinly wanting. Stamens often’ six, 
Germ superior, round; hairy, ianceatiéd} witeyné-ovdion 
in each attached to the axis, Stigma two-cleft, divided, ob+ 
tuse, spreading. Drupe within the enlarged, inflated, dry 
calyx, obtusely four-sided, woolly, spongy, dry. Nut ex- 
ceedingly hard, four-celled, &e, as sr en by 
ar scoethe carp. i, 257. t. 7. 
The wood of: this tree, the only useful part-of it; has from 
