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date base, hard above, hoary underneath, having one or 

 two sessile, turbinate glands at or near the base of the 

 nerve. Spikes panicled, terminal and axillary. Nut 

 hoary. 



Tarn. Anemui marum. 



A timber tree of considerable size, a native of the moun- 

 tains of Coromandel. It flowers in July. It is nearly 

 allied to Pentaptera tomentosa, (which was formerly 

 called Terminalia alta tomentosa.) The chief marks of 

 distinction are to be found in all the tender parts, except 

 the hard upper surface of the leaves, that being in this 

 very hoary ; the leaves are shorter, broader, and more 

 cordate at the base ; the glands sessile, and the nut soft 

 with hoary pubescence. 



Trunk tolerably erect. Bark ash-coloured, and deep- 

 ly cracked, even in young trees. Branches spreading, 

 with the extremities often drooping, and downy. Leaves 

 sub-opposite, short-petioled, oval with a cordate base, 

 and one side generally extending further down on the 

 petiole than the other ; obtuse or emarginate, entire, 

 bard, on the upper surface, except while very young 

 hoary and soft underneath, about five or six inches 

 long, and four broad. Glands near the base of the rib, 

 or nerve, either one or two, when two they are on 

 opposite sides ; turbinate and sessile. Panicles termi- 

 nal, and from the exterior axills, composed of a few, 

 simple, long, cylindric, hoary spikes. Flowers sessile, 

 all hermaphrodite, crowded, small, of a dull yellow, with 

 the outside hoary. Bractes solitary, one-flowered, linear, 

 the length of the germ, hoary. Calyx five or six cleft, 

 hoary without, and very hairy within. In the bottom, 

 round the insertion of the style, are five or six glands, 

 which are so very completely covered, as to seem a tuft of 

 hair only. Filaments tenor twelve, much longer than the 

 calyx. Germ round, one-celled, containing two ovula at- 

 tached to the top of the cell, immediately under the style ; 



