2. Akoguissus.] i9.\COMBRETACE^. 



L. sometimes aoute or emarsinate with S-I* prs. of sec. nerves. 

 Petiole i-f ". Beads f* diam. Fruit (excluding beak) about as long as 

 broad rarely £ y i Beak at length usually deoiduOU8> equalling or rather 

 shorter than the diameter of the fruit. 



It yields a copious gum "used by the Santals in cholera," Camp. 

 The leaves contain mueh tannin. The very strong wood is largely used 

 for agricultural implements and carts. 



Var. tomentosa,, twigs and leaves, esp. beneath, persistently tomentose. 

 Near the Barakar river in Manbhum ; on the hills in the extreme east of 

 Palamau, and west of Hazaribagh (about Barwadih). Bipe fruit in Decem- 

 ber. 



2. A. acuminata, Wall. ParBia, Gara-hesel, K.; Chakwa, 

 Beng* : 



An erect straight large beautiful tree with slender droop- 

 ing branches, or flowering as a small tree. Bark dark. L. 

 mostly snb-opp. narrowly ell. acute at both ends, more 

 rarely broadly ell. and very obtuse and mucronate, esp. when 

 young, always densely silky pubescent when young and more 

 or less so beneath when old with 4-10 prs. fine distinct sec. 

 nerves. Heads and peduncles rusty tomentose, mostly from 

 the previous year's shoots solitary axillary or from leaf scars 

 or several together. Wings of fruit not jagged. 



In valleys in Singbhum, esp. along water courses. 

 There seem to be two or three different forms of which complete 

 material (in all stages) is wanting : — 



(a) Small tree in full leaf and flower in April. L. narrowly ell. l|-2* 

 by |— f acute at both ends, thinly pubescent beneath. 

 Peduncles solitary. Branchlets very slender. 



(6) A tree in flower with new leaves in April. Branchlets stouter. 

 Innovations very villous or silky-pubescent. Old L. broadly 

 ell. 2£" by l£ v more densely pubescent beneath, acute both ends 

 or obtuse and mucronate. Peduncles usually clustered and 

 branched. 



(c) A tree 6-7 ft. eirth with very slender branches, flowering in March 

 and fruiting in April Frt. f 5 " long and i" broad with a beak 

 | 5 7 long, top of fruit villous pubescent. L. as in (a). 



Wood used for cart wheels and ploughs. 



3. A. sericea, Brandis. 



Described in the Indian Forester Vol. XXV, p. 287 as follows:— " A 

 mod.-sized tree, branchlets and underside of leaves olothed with long 



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