DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW OR RARE TREES. 351 



Bark mottled brown and white, rather smooth, \ inch thick. 

 Wood moderately hard, very fragrant, pale brown, very strong, medul- 

 lary rays fine, numerous. Pores medium-sized. Annual rings indis- 

 tinct. No heart. 



Weight 70 lbs. per cubic foot. P.=1061. 



Description of Plate HI — 



1. Flowering branch with leaves. 



2. Fruit — natural size. 



3. Section of fruit — natural size. 



4. Seed — natural size. 



5. Staminal tube X 4. 



6. Do. showing stamens X 4. 



COMBRETACE^. 



Terminalia angustijolia, Roxh. *' Pei kadakkay " " Sula maruthu. " 

 Plate IV. 



Leaves simple, alternate, or snbopposite, entire, narrowly elliptic 

 to lanceolate, accuminate, glabrous, pale green, 2 to 4 inches by 1| inch. 

 Venation pellucid. Petiole ^ to f inch. Flowers small in terminal 

 and axillary panicles, hermaphrodite ; each flower about | inch diameter, 

 cream-coloured, sessile. Calyx 5-cleft, tomentose. Petals none. 

 Stamens 10, much exserted, filaments long. Style simple. Ovary 

 l-celled with 2 or 3 ovules. Fruit a drupe about | inch long and 2 

 inch broad, brown mottled with w^hite, containing one 5-angled stone. 



A very large tree found in the evergreen forests about Colatoorpolay, 

 Ariyaukam and Acchankovil, ailied to T. chehula^ but very different 

 to it in appearance, and found in evergreen forests, whereas T. 

 chehula occurs only in the deciduous grass forests. The fruit also is 

 very much smaller. Flowers in May and June. Fruit ripens in 

 January. 



Barli pale brow^n, smooth, ^ inch thick. Heart- wood small, hrowri, 

 sap-wood yellowish-white, thick. Wood moderately hard, very good ; 

 fibre long, fine, and straight. 



Weight 51 lbs. per cubic foot. P.== 1012. 



This tree w^as seen by Roxburgh, who found it in Travancore, but 

 C. B. Clarke in " Flora Britannica ludica," ii, 449, regards it as a 

 doubtful species, which it certainly is not. 



