Temiinalia. decandria monogynia. 435 



long, and about one inch in diameter, smooth, of a pale 

 greenish yellow, very obscurely five-angled, one-celled. 

 Pulp in considerable quantity, hard and yellowish. Nut 

 oblong, thick and very hard, with surface rough, the irre- 

 gularly and obscurely five-grooved, one-celled. Seed so- 

 litary, lanceolate. Integument membranaceous. Peris- 

 perm none. Embryo conform to the seed, inverse. Co- 

 tyledons thin, and large, and spirally rolled up round 

 each other, and the lower part of the cylindric, superior 

 radicle. 



The tender leaves, while scarce unfolded, are said to be 

 punctured by an insect, and its eggs deposited therein, 

 which by the extravasation of the sap, become enlarged 

 into hollow galls of various shapes and sizes, but rarely 

 exceeding an inch in diameter. They are powerfully as- 

 tringent, and make as good ink as oak galls. They also 

 yield the chintz painters on the Coast of Coromandel, 

 their best and most durable yellow. They are called by 

 the Tamuls Kadu kai, and by the Telingas Aldicai, and 

 are very like the Faba Bengalensis of our Materia Me- 

 dica. 



6. T. citrina. Roxb- 



Leaves sub-opposite, oblong, with a tapering base, 

 smooth, acute, having two small glands on the apex of the 

 petiole. PawicZe* terminal and axillary. iViif five- winged. 

 Myrabolanas Citrina. G(Brt. sem. 2. J>1. t. 97. 



A very large, and tall timber tree, a native of the va- 

 rious extensive forests on the eastern frontier of Bengal 

 where it is called Hwritwki ; it blossoms there in April 

 and May, and the seed ripens in November. 



The fruit of this, like that of T. chebula, is an article of 

 import in Hindoo Materia Medica and generally, I be- 

 lieve, pass under the same name, so much alike are they, 

 and for the most part employed as gentle purgatives. 



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