674 Combretaceae. — Myrtaceae. 
filiform, straight or rarely curved; stigma simple, acute, or obtuse. 
rarely truncate or obscurely lobed. Ovules 1 or 2—6, suspended 
by a slender funiculus from the top of the cell. Fruit coriaceous 
chartaceous or drupaceous; putamen crustaceous or bony, angled or 
suleate or 2- or 4—5-winged, 1-seeded. Seed pendulous. Albumen 0. 
Kmbryo smooth or sulcate; cotyledons convolute or plicate or contor- 
tuplicate, often fleshy and oily; radicle small, superior. — Trees or 
shrubs, often scandent, rarely spinose. Leaves opposite or alternate, 
rarely verticillate, simple, petiolate, entire. Stipules 0. Flowers in 
spikes or racemes, less often paniculate or capitate, bracteate. 
A considerable Natural Order, confined to the Tropics, but distributed 
in them round the world. 
372. Terminalia Linn. 
Calyx-tube not produced above the ovary; limb campanulate 
or urceolate, 5-cleft. Petals none. Stamens 10, longer than the 
calyx. Style filiform. Ovules 2, rarely 3. Fruit ovoid, terete, 
angular, compressed or with 2 or 3—5 longitudinal wings. Cotyle- 
dons convolute. — Trees or erect shrubs. Leaves alternate or rarely 
opposite, usually marked with minute pellucid dots, often only visible 
under a strong lens. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, small, 
green, white or rarely coloured, sessile in loose spikes, rarely con- 
tracted into dense heads, either axillary or clustered on the old 
nodes. Calyx-tube usually small and narrow, the limb much broader. 
The genus extends over nearly the whole range of the Order, but is 
most abundant in Africa and Asia. 
965. Terminalia glabra Roxb. Flor. Ind. II (1824), p. 440. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.75. — Leaves oblong, 10 to 
20 em long, 2—5 em broad, abrupt at both ends, slightly hairy on 
the veins and short petioles. 
N. d. Cairo, often cultivated in gardens, scarcely naturalized. 
Also known from India. 
A great specimen in the Ezbekiye garden at Cairo, from seeds obtained 
from Sennar. 
77. Myrtaceae. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary at the base or up to the insertion 
of the stamens; limb more or less divided (usually to the base) 
into 4 or 5, very rarely 3 or more than 5, lobes or teeth, or 
reduced to a narrow border, or entirely wanting; lobes usually 
imbricate or open in the bud. Petals usually as many as calyx- 
