432 DECANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Terminalta- 



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 smalJ, 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 with a 

 grey silky down. Embryo inverse, &c. 



The kernels of the fruit are eaten by the natives ; they 

 taste like filberts, but are reckoned intoxicating, wrhen 

 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 ofiensive smell, not unlike 

 those of Sterculiafoetida. 



4. T. moluccana. Willd. 4. 968. 



Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oblong, entire, smooth, 

 without glands. Spikes axillary. Flowers rotate. Drupe 

 obovate, villous. 



Sans. Kala Drooma. 



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 myrohalans, the pro- 

 duce of my Terminalia Belerica. Corom. pi. 2- N. 198. as 

 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 

 respect except in the size of the fruit. They are natives of 

 the various mountainous countries North East of Bengal. 



