on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IF. 159 



fruits, and the latter for the reasons I have already stated : and besides, the 

 flowers of the T. Bellirica of Retzins, which in the Hindwi dialect is called 

 Sahara, have an abominable stercoraceous smell, while Rheede says of his 

 plant " flores suaveolentes." 



In the woods of Southern India [Buchanans Mysore, i. 183.) I found a tree 

 called Tan in the dialect of Carnata, and Tani Cai Maram by those of Mala- 

 bar, as already stated, which therefore, I have little or no doubt, is the Tani of 

 Rheede, although I have not noted the smell of its flowers, by which chiefly it 

 is distinguished from the Terminalia Bellirica. Specimens were given to Sir 

 J. E. Smith under the name of Terminalia or Myrobalanus Taria, and I shall 

 here annex a description. 



Jrbor magna, ligno firmo, albido, non resinoso, durabili. Ramuli sulco e 

 petiolo utrinque decurrente angulati, surculis novis pubescentibus nudi. 

 Folia decidua, subopposita, apices versus ramulorum conferta, obovata, 

 aliquando acuta, ssepius cum acumine obsoleto obtusa, margine cartila- 

 gineo integerrima, costata, venosissima, coriacea, eglandulosa; juniora 

 pubescentia, adulta utrinque glabra. Petiolus compressiusculus, margi- 

 natus, glaber, supra medium glandula, setate ssepe evanida, utrinque in- 

 structus, brevis, non stipulaceus. 



SpiccB infrafoliacese vel axillares, petiolo longiores, pubescentes, laxse, nudae, 

 solitarise. Flores sparsi : superiores masculini ; inferiores in eadem spica 

 hermaphroditi. 



Drupa subcarnosa, angulis quinque obsoletis obovata. Nux semine esculent© 

 monosperma. 



In the collection of specimens which I have given to the library at the India 

 House, are those of several varieties of the Terminalia Bellirica, which, as I 

 have said, I can scarcely distinguish from the Tani by any mark, except the 

 smell of the flowers ; for I found a very considerable difference in the form and 

 pubescence of the leaves, in the shape of the nut and seed, and in the presence 

 or absence of glands, in the difi"erent trees that were admitted by all to be the 

 Bahara, the name by which the plant with fetid flowers is known in the Hindwi 

 dialect. In some places the Bahara was distinguished into two kinds, the 

 great and the small, on account of a difference in the size of the fruit. The 



