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Sub-genus Myrobalanus, Gacrtn. 



Fruit a flesLy drupo, compressed or obsoletely angular, the i)utamen bony. 



* Spikes simple, solitary in the leaf-axils. 

 ° Spikes quite glabrous. 



*T. CATAPPA, L. Amlamans, the ^Nicobars, and cultivated all over Burma. 



T. Moluccana, Lamk. 



Glabrous or pubescent. Petioles very short, tlie base of the broad leaves more or 

 less rounded. Drupes 1^-2 inches long, compressed. 



The kernels of this tree arc known on breakfast-tables in Calcutta as 'country 

 almonds,' and are pleasant to eat. 



T. PEOCEEA, Roxb. Tropical forests of the Andamans. 



As preceding, but glabrous, the base of the leaves more or less acuminate. 

 Drupes about an inch long, obsoletely o-angular, ovoid-oblong, red inside. 



T. KuKziAXA, Theobald. Kamorta. 



Terminalia (sp. nov. Kurz, J.A.S.B. 1876, p. 130). 



Leaves naiTower and more cuneate than in T. catwppa. Flowers and fruit 

 not known. 



° ° Spikes puberulous or tomentose. 



T. BELERicA, Roxb. All oYBP BuTma up to 2000 feet. 



T. /(xtidissima, GritF. 



Thyt-sein. 



Leaf-buds rusty villous. Leaves obovatc, on 2-3 inch long petioles, usually 

 silky pubescent. Drupes obovoid, silky puberulous. 



** Spikes more or less panicled at the end of the Iranchlets, puberulous or iomeniose. 



T. CHEBULA, Retz. Chittagong. 



T. reticulata, Roth. 



Young shoots and under side of the oblong leaves rusty villous, the petiole sliort. 

 Ovary villous. Drupes oval, glabrous. 



T. TOMEJiTELLA, Kz. Pcgu and Tcnasscrim. 



Hpan-ga. 



As preceding, but ovary (juito glabrous, the flowers and fruits much smaller, 

 the leaves more coppery villous beneath. 



T. CITRIXA, Roxb. Tenasserira and the Andamans. 



var. Malayana. Nankowry. 



Very young shoots rusty villous. Leaves smooth and glabrous, acuminate, the 

 petiole short. Drupes oblong-lauceolatc, obsoletely 5-cornercd, glabrous. 



Sub-genus Pextaptera, Roxb. 



Fruit a dry nut, with a chartaccous or fibrous-coriaceous pericarp, compressed, 

 or 3-5-coiTiered, winged. 



* Nuts usually Z-cornered, the angles expanded into 2 equal, or 3-1 unequal wings 

 {Chuncoa, Pav.). 



X Nuts large, equally 2-winged, lJ-2 itiches long. Spikes simple, axillary. 



T. (Pentapteba) bialata, Roxb. Andamans. 



Len. 



AU parts glabrous. Spikes puberulous or tomcntoso. Leaves obovatc, the 

 petiole 2-3 inches long. Nut 3-coruered, witli 2 large equal spreading wings, about 

 3-3i inches across. 



