1 1 2 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



much alike, but they can be easily distinguished by the fruit. The 

 leaves are often collected at the end of the branches, whence the 

 generic name. 



(a) Fruit not winged. 



1. T. belerica. A large, spreading tree, leaves large, broad 

 ovate or obovate, long petioled, flowers yellowish-green in 

 spikes with a very sickly smell, fruit nearly round, size of a 

 damson, dark, covered with grey silky down. Bahira, bJtirda, 

 vela, bdbra. 



Common throughout India. It has 3 varieties, one without glands 

 on the petiole. 



2. T. chebula. A large tree with ovate or oblong leaves 

 more or less cordate at the base, spikes of flowers often panicled, 

 fruit oval, smooth, about the size of an olive. Hirda, cliam- 

 bdri hirda, rangdri hirda. 



Common in the Ghauts and Konkan. It has 6 varieties, one or 

 other found all over India. The fruit of this and other Indian species 

 are the myrobolans of commerce, but those of this species are 

 the most valuable. The nuts with sulphate of iron make capital ink. 

 Hooker, in Le Maout. 



(b) Fruit with 5 wings. 



3. * T. arjuna. A large tree with smooth bark and oval leaves 

 often cordate, spikes of flowers usually panicled, fruit ovoid, 

 nearly smooth, truncated or suddenly narrowed at the top. 

 Arjun, arjun Sddara, shdrdul, pinjal. 



Common in jungles S.B. of Surat and abou 1 : Belgaum (D.). Also 

 found in the Konkan and at Matheran. H. includes in this D.'s T. 

 Berryii, which has narrower leaves. 



4. T. tomentosa (T. gJalra, D.). A small tree, leaves linear 

 oblong obtuse, somewhat cordate, with a pair of top-shaped 

 glands on the midrib, flowers in large cross panicles, wings of 

 fruit broad. A in, Sddri, Asan. 



This is, perhaps, the commonest tree in the Konkan, and one of 

 the most useful ; common also over a great part of India in one of its 

 3 varieties (if.). 



(c) Fruit with 3 wings. 



5. T. paniculata. A small tree very like the last, but with 

 whitish flowers becoming purplish, calyx segments reddish- 

 brown, the fruit dark-red, the wings unequal. Kinjal, Jional. 



Very common in the S. Konkan and elsewhere with the ain, but it 

 has a much narrower range. The clusters of dark-red fruit make 

 the tree conspicuous. 



T. catappa, bengali baddm, a fine tree in gardens ; kernels eatable. 



