434 DECANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Terminalia. 



Hwr, HarM«, Hindoo names of the chebuUc myrabo- 

 lans. 



Teling. and Tarn. Kadukar. 



Zengi, or Zunguhar, the black or Indian myrabolans, 

 and for the Asiatic synonyms of the other varieties, see 

 Dr. Fleming's paper at page 181, in the 11th. volume of 

 the Asiatic Researches above quoted. 



A large tree, a native of the forests of India, from 

 Cape Comorin, to the mountains which bound the plains 

 of Bengal, Oude, &c. on the north. Flowering time in 

 Bengal, the hot season. The seed ripens in November 

 and December. 



Tnink rarely straight, and but short for the size of the 

 tree. Bark in young trees of about seven or eight years 

 growth, of a light ash-colour and slightly cracked, their 

 trunks are then from two to three feet in circumference, 

 three feet above ground. Branches mdinj , spreading much 

 in every direction, their extremities often drooping, and 

 while young downy. Leaves opposite, or nearly so, short 

 petioled, oblong, entire, obtuse, while young very downy 

 on both surfaces, but when old underneath only, some 

 small glands in the margins near the base, and generally 

 two 0/1 the edges of the downy petioles near the apex, 

 about six inches long and three broad. Stipules none. 

 Spikes in a terminal panicle, or axillary, and there gene- 

 rally undivided, downy. Flowers numerous, small, dull 

 white, smell oflFensive, (as in most, if not all, the other 

 species,) all hermaphrodite. Bractes solitary, subulate, 

 downy, one-flowered. Calyx bowl-shaped, five-toothed, 

 very hairy, particularly the inside, and five very hairy 

 glands in its bottom, surrounding the base of the style. 

 Filaments ten, alternately a little shorter, twice the length 

 of the calyx. Anthers small, oval. Germ inferior, oval, 

 hairy, one-celled, containing two ovula attached to the 

 top of the cell. Style rather shorter than the stamina. 

 Stigma acute. Drupe oval, about an inch and a half 



