T<-r mm til/a. ] 179 



W. and A. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 152. ( I., lillnrat. Voigt ; Kur/i. KVJ;, basm*!) treeofthe 

 mangrove swamps oi' Tenasserim. Ctnitl>r<-h<in comprises 1 f> large shrubs, generally 



dimbing, found in the moist zones of India and Burma, of which the most common u 

 ('. </;///</r/an, Uoxh. Fl. hid. ii. 2:52; Hook. Fl. Iml. ii. 452; Brandis 221 ; Kurz i. 



460; <J;inihlf 1.0. Vern. .funk, jiJiin'xirr, illwbela, Hind. ; KulUaru, Xep. ; Pindik, 



-ka- 



a ; A riknla, Tel. ; Tlutma-ka-moay, Burin., an evergreen scandent shrub, with 

 wMtish-yellow floral leaves, olimbing to tin- summits oi' the highest trees, and found in 

 the intermediate and moist zones of India and Burma. It has a whitish grey hark', and 

 soft light-brown wood, having lari;e pores ;uid moderate-si/ed, evenly distributed 

 medullary rays (E M01, Darjeeling Tcrai). Q///.vy//^//.v hntica, lloxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 427, 

 is tin- " IJangoon Creeper," Vern. ]) (tniiltini n<\ Burin., a climbing shrul) with red 

 flowers, indigenous in Tenasserim and cultivated in gardens in other parts of India. 



Illigera contains 3 species : /. Coryzadeniu, Meissn. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 460 

 (/. (ippendiculata, Bl.; Kurz i. 469) of Tenasserim and the Andamnns ; /. Kurzii, C. B. 

 Clarke, of Burma and the Khasia Hills; and /. khastana, 0. B. Clarke, of the Khasia 

 Hills: all scandent shrubs. 



Wood moderately hard to very hard, with a distinct dark-coloured 

 heartwood in some, but not in all species. Pores varying 1 in .size. 

 Medullary rays uniform, equidistant, fine or very fine, very numerous, the 

 distance between the rays less than the diameter of the pores. The 

 wood of Gyrocarpns is anomalous. 



1. TERMINALIA, Linn. 



Contains about 12 Indian trees, mostly of very large size, and furnishing valuable 

 timber as well as other products. T. procera, Koxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 429 ; Hook. Fl. Ind. 

 ii. 41 L; Kurx i. 451 is a lofty tree of the Andaman Islands. T. fcetidissima, Griff. ; 

 Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 415, is a tree of Mergui. T. pyrifolia, Kurz i. 457 ; Hook. Fl. Ind. 

 i i. 1 IS. Veru. Leinben, Burin., is a Burmese deciduous tree, with wood weighing 39 Ibs. 

 per cubic foot. 



Wood moderately hard to very hard. A distinct, dark-coloured, very 

 hard heartwood in T. tomentosa, Arjuna, myriocarpa, and paniculata ; 

 dark-coloured, but not well-defined wood near the centre in T. Chebula 

 andc^n#;no heartwood in the remaining species. Pores moderate- 

 sized to large, prominent on a vertical section. Medullary rays fine, 

 numerous, uniform and equidistant, the distance between two rays 

 being less than the transverse diameter of the pores. Concentric bands 

 of soft texture continuous in T. belerica, bi-alata, alata and Catappa ; in- 

 terrupted and sometimes wanting in the other species. 



1. T. belerica, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 431 ; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 445 ; 

 Beddome t. 19; Brandis 222; Kurz i. 455; Gamble 39. Vern. 

 Babela, beleyleh, Pers. ; Bahera, bhaira, behara, Hind. ; Bohera, Beng. ; 

 Baheri, Rujbanshi; Knnom, Lepcha ; Chiror(K 3 Garo ; Hulluck, banri, 

 Ass. ; T/iara, Uriyn ; Tani, kattu elupay, Tarn. ; Tani, tandi, toandi t 

 thandra, Tel. ; Akera, jfiera, Hyderabad; Santi, Kan. ; Bherda, ba/tera, 

 Mar.; Balra, balda, Dekkan ; Be/iedo, Mandevi; Tahaka, taka, banjir, 

 Gondi; Ye/iera, Bhil; BiUu, Cingh. ; Sacheng, Magh; T/iitsein, Burin. 



A large deciduous tree; bark^ inch thick, bluish grey, with numer- 

 ous fine vertical cracks. Wood yellowish grey, hard, no heartwood, not 

 durable ; readily attacked by insects ; annual rings indistinct. Pores of 

 two sizes, large and small ; the large ones frequently subdivided, joined by 

 irregular, wavy, concentric bauds of softer tissue, which contain the small 

 pores. Fine, uniform and equidistant medullary rays are distinctly visible 



