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Materials for a Flora of ilie Malayan Teninsutd. 



month with 5 short vnlvate triangular lobes, deoidiious. Petals 0. 

 Stamens 10, inserted on the calyx-tube ; the epigynous disc within thera 

 densely hairy. Ovary 1-celled, inferior ; style long, simple ; ovules 2 or 

 3, pendulous from the summit of the cell. Fruit ovoid, various in 

 size and texture, smooth or angular, or with 2-5 wings, indehiscent, 

 coriaceous. Seed solitary, exalbuminous^ cotyledons convolute. DisrniB. 

 Species 135 ; in the tropics of both worlds. 



Sect. I. Fruit ovoid or elliptic, sometimes compressed, 

 never winged, but sometimes keeled at the edges or obscure- 

 ly 4-5 -ridged : — 



Leaves broadly oblong, lanceolate-oblong to elliptic-oblong « 



fruit sub-clavate, obscurely 5-ridged, glabrous, 2-3 in. long 



Leaves elliptic or ovate, acuminate ; fruit oblong, obscure- 

 ly 5-ribbed, slightly compressed on one side, •6-75 in. iong, 



glabrous 



Leaves obovate, broadly elliptic or sub-rotund, minutely 



papillose on the upper surface, the petioles very long (1-75-4 



in.) ; fruit ovoid or globnlar-ovoid, minutely tomeutose ... 



Leaves obovate, tapering to a very narrow base ; fruit 



glabrous : — 



Fruit elliptic, 2-25 in. long, with very thick coijky peri- 

 carp ; leaves 3-4 in. long 



Fruit obovate-ellipsoid, plano-convex, 1*5 in. long ; 

 leaves 5-6-5 in. long... 



Fruit ellipsoid, somewhat compressed, keeled at the 

 edo-es, 2 in. long ; pericarp fleshy; leaves 6-9 in. long 

 Sect. IL Fruit narrowly elliptic, its edges produced into 2 

 broad leathery wings :— 



Leaves obovate or oblong-obovate, 6-9 in. long, the peti- 

 oles 2-25-2-75 in. ; fruit 1'25-1'75 in. long, its breadth 



(including the wings) 2 5-3*5 in. ... 



Leaves spathulate-oblanceolate, 3-4 in. long, the petioles 



1-15-1'5 in. ; fruit •75-1-25 in. long ; its breadth (including 



the wings) 1-2-2 in. ... ... ... ... 8. T. suhspathulata. 



1. Terminalia citrina, Fleming in Asiat. Res. XI, 183, A glab- 

 rous tree 60-80 feet high ; young shoots slender, rusty-pubescent, but 

 ■ at an early stage glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, sometimes almost 

 opposite, from broadly oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, on short 

 bi-o-landular petioles, the apex acute or shortly acuminate, the base cune- 

 ate or sometimes rounded ; both surfaces when very young rusty-puberu- 

 lous afterwards perfectly glabrous and shining, the lower minutely areo- 

 late-reticulate, the bottom of the areolae covered with white felt; main 

 nerves 8-12 pairs, curving upwards, distinct on both surfaces when dry; 

 leno-th 3-6 in., breadth 1-25-2-5 in., petiole ^4 or '5 in. Spikes in small 

 panicles shorter than the leaves, axillary, deciduously rusty-puberulous. 

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1. T. citrina. 



2. T. Manii. 



3. T. lelerica. 



4. T. phellocarpa. 



5. T. foetidissima, 



6. T. Catappa. 



7. T. hialata. 



