49. COMBRETACFJS. [ 1. Tbbminalia. 



axils and in small terminal panicles. Fr. a drupe, ellip- 

 soid J-1J" long glabrous, 5-ribbed when dry. 



Coupon on the lower hills, and especially in the protected forests 

 of the low plateaux, frequent on a hard clay. Fls. April-May. Fr- 

 Nov.-Feby. New shoots April-May. 



Young leaves usually beautifully silvery -hairy, adult nearly glabrous, 

 acute or obtuse with a rounded rarely acute base and 7-9 pairs promi- 

 nent sec-nerves. Often 2 glands at the top of the %-V long petiole. 

 Spikes 2-3^"- Bracts linear as long as the young flowers, caducous. Fls. 

 very densely white villous within. 



Much used as a tanning material and i^Hindu medicine 

 A variety on the top of Parasnath occurs with the leaves very 

 shaggy beneath and small fruit only §'' long. C. B. Ciarhe. 



4. T. Arjuna, Bedd. Kowa, Gara-Hatana; K. ; Kauha, 

 8 .; Kahua, Kharw. ; Arjun, H. 



A large tree with a pale bark, long inclined branches 

 with opp. or sub-opp. oblong leaves 2-3-times as long as 

 broad (smaller ones only at bases of shoots are elliptic) 

 sub-sessile, soon glabrous. Fls. T \" diam. white in shortly 

 panicled spikes. Fruit 1-1 J" long, wings less than f" wide 

 UBually premorse above, with ascending striations. 



Common along nalas where it ' sometimes attains an immense size. 

 All districts. Fls. March-July. Fr. March-April. Evergreen. 



L. 5-8'' with 2 glands at base or on the very short petiole (under |") 

 entire or crenate but nerves not excurrent as teeth. Seedlings may have 

 soothed leaves. 



5. T- tomentosa, W. fy A. Ha tana, atana, K. ; Atnak', 

 S .; Asan, Sain, M. 



A large tree with dark cinerous rough bark, opp. or 

 sub-opp, ell. or ell.-obovate or oblong leaves subsessile or 

 petioled, with distinct tertiary nerves, permanently pubescent 

 beneath or in one variety glabrescent. Fls. as in 4 but' 

 panicles often larger. Fruit If -2" long sometimes attaining 

 3 by 2f" wings over \ " broad with horizontal striations. 



Common in the forests, especially in the damper valleys. Very 

 common in the village lands where it is pollarded for the Tusser Silk- 



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