COMBRETACES. 
SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 19 
TERMINALIA. 
FLowErs perfect or polygamo-dicecious; calyx 5-toothed, the teeth valvate in 
estivation; petals 0; stamens 10, in two series; ovary inferior, l-celled; ovules 2 or 
rarely 3, suspended. Fruit drupaceous, l-seeded. Leaves alternate or occasionally 
opposite, destitute of stipules. 
Terminalia, Bentham & Hooker, Gen. i. 685 (1865). — 
Baillon, Hist. Pl. vi. 280 (excl. Conocarpus, Ramatuella, 
Anogeissus, and Buchenavia). 
Bucida, Linneus, Syst. ed. 10, 1025 (1759).— Adanson, 
Fam. Pi. ii. 80.— A. L. de Jussieu, Gen. 75. — Meisner, 
Gen. 110. — Endlicher, Gen. 1180. 
Adamaram, Adanson, Fam. Pl. ii. 445 (1763). 
Terminalia, Linneus, Mant. 21 (1767). — A. L. de Jussieu, 
Gen. 76. — Meisner, Gen. 110. — Endlicher, Gen. 1180. 
Tanibouca, Aublet, Pl. Guian. i. 448, t. 178 (1775). — 
A. L. de Jussieu, Gen. 76. 
Pamea, Aublet, Pl. Guian. ii. 946, t. 359 (1775).— A. L. 
de Jussieu, Gen. 76. 
Trees or shrubs, with astringent properties. 
Kniphofia, Scopoli, Introduct. 327 (1777). 
Chuncoa, A. L. de Jussieu, Gen. 76 (1789). 
Badamia, Gertner, Pruct. ii. 90, t. 97, f. 1 (1791). 
Myrobalanus, Gertner, Fruct. ii. 90, t. 97, f. 2 (1791). 
Catappa, Gertner, Fruct. ii. 206, t. 127, f. 3 (1791). 
Gimbernatia, Ruiz & Pavon, Prodr. Fl. Peruv. 138, t. 36 
(1794). 
Fatrea, A. L. de Jussieu, Ann. Mus. v. 223 (1805). 
Hudsonia, Lunan, Hort. Jam. ii. 310 (not Linnzus) (1814). 
Pentaptera, De Candolle, Mém. Soc. Phys. Genéve, iv. 5 
(1828) ; Prodr. iii. 14. — Endlicher, Gen. 1180. 
Chicharronia, A. Richard, F7. Cub. 529 (1845). 
Leaves alternate or rarely opposite or subopposite, 
usually clustered at the ends of the branches, sessile or sometimes petiolate, generally entire and marked 
with minute pellucid dots, glandular or eglandular at the base. Flowers in the axils of minute bractlets, 
green, creamy white, or bright-colored, in lax elongated simple or branched spikes, rarely contracted into 
dense heads, axillary or clustered on the old nodes. Calyx-tube ovoid or subcylindrical, constricted 
above the ovary, the short limb urceolate or campanulate, five-toothed or divided, usually deciduous. 
Disk epigynous or annular. Stamens ten, in two ranks, inflexed in estivation, inserted on the limb of 
the calyx, the five inferior opposite its teeth, the five superior shorter and alternating with them ; fila- 
ments subulate or filiform, exserted ; anthers minute, attached on the back, sagittate or oblong, introrse, 
two-celled, the cells opening longitudinally. Ovary included in the tube of the calyx, one-celled; style 
subulate, often thickened or villose at the base, terminated by a simple minute stigma; ovules two or 
rarely three, suspended from the apex of the cell on elongated slender funiculi, anatropous ; raphe 
ventral, the micropyle superior. Fruit ovoid, terete, angular or compressed, sometimes with two to five 
longitudinal wings, or samariform, one-seeded ; exocarp usually thin, fleshy or coriaceous; endocarp 
Embryo destitute of 
albumen ; cotyledons convolute, fleshy ; radicle minute, superior, turned toward the hilum. 
coriaceous or bony. Seed elongated, ovoid or terete; testa membranaceous. 
Terminalia, as the genus is now enlarged, inhabits the tropics of the two worlds; eighty or ninety 
species! are distinguished, of which the larger part are found in Asia and Africa. 
W. Ind. 276.— Bentham, Fl. Austral. ii. 496.— Eichler, Jfartius 
Fl. Brasil. xiv. pt. ii. 82. — Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 415. — Kurz, 
Forest Fl. Brit. Burm. i. 453. — Hooker f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 443. — 
Baker, Fl. Jfaur. and Seych. 110. — Hemsley, Bot. Biol. Am. Cent. i. 
402. — Vidal y Soler, Fl. Forest. Arch. Filip. 135. 
1 Willdenow, Spec. iv. 967.— Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, 
Nov. Gen. et Spec. vi. 113. — Kunth, Syn. Pl. .Lquin. ii. 399. — De 
Candolle, Prodr. iii. 10.— Gray, Bot. Wilkes Explor. Exped. i. 
615. — Miquel, FV. Ind. Bat. i. 598. — Harvey & Sonder, FV. Cap. 
ii. 508. — Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeylan. 103.— Grisebach, Fl. Brit. 
