Terminalia. decandria monogynia. 429 



Teling. Bandee mooroodoodoo. 



A native of the Ci rears, flowering in February and 

 March. 



Note. Calycopterus. Lamark illust. gen. t. 357. is ex- 

 ceedingly like this, consequently like the former. 



TERMINALIA. Schreb. gen. n. 1583. 



Calyx five-parted. Corol none. Germ inferior, one- 

 celled, two-seeded, attachment superior. Drupe one- 

 seeded. Embryo inverse, spiral, no perisperm. 



1. T. procera. R. 



Branches horizontal, verticelled. Leaves cuneate, po- 

 lished. Racemes axillary. Corol flat (rotate.) Drupe 

 oblong, obscurely five-seeded, with the nut of the same 

 shape. 



This very charming species is a native of the Anda- 

 man Islands, where it grows to be a tree of the first mag- 

 nitude. From thence it was introduced with many other 

 plants, into the Botanic garden at Calcutta by Col. A- 

 lexander Kyd in 1794 ; and in 1S09 they were about fifty 

 feet high, with a slender, perfectly straight smooth trunk, 

 and several verticells of perfectly horizontal branches ; 

 with bifarious, alternate branchlcts. Flowering time in 

 Bengal the month of March ; the fruit ripens in July. Its 

 leaves as in Catappa, drop about the beginning of winter 

 in Bengal, and appear with the flowers in March. 



Leaves crowded about the ends of the branchlets, short- 

 petioled, cuneate ; margins slightly waved, apex round- 

 ed, with a large rather obtuse point ; perfectly smooth 

 on both sides ; veins parallel, and simple, with a small 

 hairy bit in the axill of each, and two glands on the sides 

 of the nerve near the base ; from eight to twelve inches 

 long, and from four to five broad. Racemes axillary, soli- 

 tary, shorter than the leaves. Flowers numerous, small. 



