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65. MEMECYLE. 
This small order, allied to both the preceding and the following, is also so to Melas- 
tomacee and to Myrtace@, and is only found in the hot parts of India and along the 
Malayan Peninsula. One or two species of MJemecylon occur as far north as Silhet, 
and WM. grande at Monghir. JZ. edule, found in the Peninsula, Silhet, and Penang, is 
supposed by Dr. Roxburgh to be the M. tinctoria of Wildenow, as its leaves form an 
ingredient in the dyes of the Coromandel. The ripe berries, though somewhat astrin- 
gent, are eaten by the natives. (Roxb.) 
66. COMBRETACEZ. 
This is another of the families found equally in all the equinoctial parts of the world, 
and of which a few species spread to the most northern parts of India, and the valleys 
of the Himalaya. The genera Terminalia, Conocarpus, Poivrea, and Combretum, of 
which species are found in India, are common to the tropical parts of Asia, Africa, and 
America; but Pentaptera, Getonia, and Lumnitsera, are confined to India, with Quis- 
qualis in the Malayan Peninsula and Java. 
To the few species previously known in India of some of these genera, several have 
been added, especially of Combretum from Silhet, the Burmese territories, and Malayan 
Peninsula; but those found in the forest at the foot of the mountains in the most 
northern parts, occur also in the southern parts of India, as Terminalia Bellerica and 
Chebula, the latter nearly allied to 7. citrina ; : Pentaptera tomentosa, which differs little 
from P. glabra, Poivrea Roxburghi, Conocarpus latifolia, and Combretum nanum. 
Many of these are found in the Malayan Peninsula, in Silhet, at the entrance into 
Nepal, and along the foot of the Himalayas in the Deyraand Kyarda Doons. etonia 
nutans and floribunda, Quisqualis indica, Lumnitzera racemosa, are confined to southern 
parts; the last in the Delta of the Ganges, and the salt marshes in the southern provinces 
of Malabar. Conocarpus myrtifolia,Wall., 4017, appears to be the only species peculiar 
to the upper provinces, and this was found by Dr. Hamilton on the banks of the Jumna, 
where I also met with it in coming down that river: it may have spread from Central 
India. The species of Conocarpus have been divided by M. De Candolle into three 
sections, American, African, and Indian ; the last called Anogeissus is adopted as a 
genus by Dr.Wallich. It cannot, however, be now considered as peculiar to India, as — 
an undoubted species of the same genus or section is figured at t. 65 of the Flora Sene- 
gambia. 
: The Combretacee yield several products, and some medicines, as myrobolans, which, 
if valued according to the time they have been in use, would rank with those of consi- 
derable importance. Several of the tribe, as species of Terminalia and Pentaptera, yield 
excellent timber (v. Roxb. Fl. Ind. 11. p. 429—444) ; but astringency is the principle 
most generally diffused, as the bark of Terminalia Urjan is used in medicine for this 
in India, as that of Bucida Buceras is in Jamaica, and of 
property, and in dyeing black 
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