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mestica, G. litorea and 0. sylvestris, Rumpli. Heib. Amboln. I, t. 68. 

 Badamia Coinmersoni, Guertn. Fruut. II, 97; Rheede Hort. Mai. IV, 

 t. 3, 4. 



In all the provinces ; near the coast. 



A magnificent species, at times attaining an enormous height, and nsnaTIy With 

 horizontal branches. The stem is frequently most picttiresquely butressed. The 

 embryo is eatable, and is often known to Europe.ms in the East as the " Indian 

 Almond." I have reduced to this T. procera, Koxb., the only tangible distinction 

 between which and T. Catappa is said to be its obscurely 5-ridged fruit. But 

 fruits with this peculiarity may be gathered from the same trees as those bearing 

 the ordinary sharp-edged smooth fruit. 



7. Tekminalia bialata, Steud. Komencl. II, 668. A glabrous tree 

 80-100 feet high ; young branches stout and with large cicatrices. 

 I>eai;es crowded at the apices of the branches, alternate, thinly coria- 

 ceous, obovate or obovate-oblong, with long petioles, the apex abruptly 

 and shortly cuspidate, narrowed from above the middle to the cuneate 

 and usually oblique base; upper surface shining when dry, the lower 

 dull and paler, the reticulations rather di>;tiiict on both ; main nei-ves 

 7-9 pairs, spreading, rather distinct on both surfaces when dry ; length 

 6-9 in , breadth 2-75-4-5 in., petioles 2-25-2-75 in. Spikes axillary, 

 drooping, solitary, longer than the petioles but rather shorter than the 

 leaves, rusty-puberulous. Floivers '2 in. in diam., sessile, the male 

 flowers in the upper part, the hermaphrodite flowers in the lower, 

 each with a minute deciduous bracteole. Calyx rusty-pubescent out- 

 side, densely rusty-villous inside ; the lobes triangular, reflexed. Stamens 

 exserted. Ovary villous. Fruit ellipsoid, tapering to each end, some- 

 what flattened on one side, covered with minute dense rusty tomen- 

 tum and Avith 2 large slightly wavy, coriaceous, puberulous, horizontally 

 striate lateral wings; length of fruit 1'25-1'75 in , breadth •5-75 in., 

 the wings from I '25-1 75 in. in width. Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 456 ; 

 Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Bi-. Ind. II, 419. Fentaptera hialata, Roxb. 

 Hort. Beng. 84 ; Fl. Ind. II, 441 ; Wall. Cat. 3986. 



Andaman, and probably also the Nicobak Islands. Distrib. Burma. 



8. Terminalia subspathulata. King n. spec. A tree over 100 feet 

 hio-h ; young branches rather slender, deciduously pubeiulous. Leaves 

 alternate, crowded near the ends of the branches, coriaceous, spathulate- 

 oblanceolate, shorty and bluntly cuspidate, tapering from near the apex 

 to the long petiole, eglandular and sometimes slightly oblique at the 

 base, the edges thickened and slightly revokite ; upper surface glabrous 

 and shining, the lower pale and sub-glaucous, both minutely reticulate ; 

 main nerves about 8 pairs, spreading and curving upwards, distinct ; 

 length 3-4 in., breadth near the apex 1-16 in., petiole 1-15-1-5 in. 

 jS^^/A-ef solitary, aT?illary, shorter than the leaves when in flower, longer 



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