444 LVIII. COMERETACEJ;. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Terminalia. 



flower, soon deciduous. Calyx-tube produced above the ovary with a cam- 

 panulate mouth, limb of 5 short valvate triangular lobes, deciduous. Petals 0. 

 Stamens 10 inserted on the calyx-tube ; epigynous disc within them densely 

 hairy. Ovary 1-celled, inferior ; style long, simple j ovules 2 or 3, pendulous 

 from the summit of the cell. Fruit ovoid, very various in size, smooth or 

 angular or winged with 2-5 wings, indehiscent, coriaceous. Seed solitary, ex- 

 albuuiinous, cotyledons convolute. DISTRIB. Species 80 ; in the tropics of 

 the whole world, less numerous in America. 



T. angustifolia, Jacq. Hort. Vindob. t. 100 not of Roxb. ; leaves attenuated at 

 both ends lanceolate, with two glands at the apex of the petiole, fruit narrowly 

 2-winged. Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 970; DC. Prodr. iii. 11; W. $ A. Prodr. 312; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 599. T. Benzoin, Linn. ; Spreng. Syst. ii. 358 ; Lamk. Diet. i. 

 349 ; Wall. Cat. 3976. Catappa Benzoin, Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 127, is included in the 

 Peninsula Flora of W. & A., but there is nothing to show that it has ever been found 

 wild in the Deccan. DISTRIB. Central Malayan Islands. 



SECT. I. Catappa (including Myrobalanus). Fruit not winged, ovoid 

 or subcompressed, sometimes showing (especially when dry) two or five obscure 

 lines or ridges. 



1. T. Catappa, Linn. ; Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 967; leaves alternate clustered 

 towards the ends of the branches very sbort-petioled obovate from a cordate 

 but very narrow base, spikes solitary axillary simple, fruit 1-1| in. ellipsoid 

 slightly compressed so as to show two ridges. Roxb. Hort. Beny. 33 and FL 

 Ind. ii. 430 ; Lamk. El. t. 848 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 11 ; Wall. Cat. 3975 ;" W. $ 

 A. Prodr. 313 ; Wight Ic. 172 ; Bot. Mag. 3004 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 

 599 ; Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 18 ; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma, i. 454. T. Catappa 

 and Badamia, Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. iv. vol. vi. 92. T. moluccana, Lamk. 

 Diet. i. 349, not of Roxb. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 11 ; Willd. Sp. PL iv. 96 ex- 

 <;luding the synonym T. eglandulosa, Roxb. T. Myrobalana, Roth. Nov. Sp. 378. 

 T. subcordat'a, Willd. Sp. PL iv. 968. T. intermedia, Spreng. Syst. ii. 359. Jug- 

 lans Catappa, Lour. FL Cochinc. 703. Catappa domestica, fitorea and sylvestris, 

 Humph. Herb. Amboin. i. t. 68. Badamia Comrnersoni, Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 97. 

 JRheede Hort. Mai. iv. t. 3, 4. 



Wild in the lowlands of MALAYA, and perhaps of the Transgangetic Peninsula ; 

 largely planted in all INDIA from the North-West Provinces to Ceylon and Burma, 

 mostly at 0-1000 ft. alt. DISTRIB. Planted in nearly all tropical countries. 



Attains 80 ft., with branches in horizontal whorls. Leaves 6-8 in., deciduous in 

 the cold season, usually softly hairy when young, when adult hairy or glabrous, 

 with two glandular depressions near the base of the midrib on the under side which are 

 often obscure or wanting ; petiole |-f in. Spikes (and innovations) grey or rusty 

 tomentose or pilose, the upper flowers male, the lower hermaphrodite, the bracts mi- 

 nute. Calyx-teeth glabrous or nearly so within and without. Young ovary glabrous 

 or hairy. Fruit finally glabrous. This species may generally be recognised by the 

 short petiole and the very narrow but cordate base of the leaf. 



2. T. procera, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 33 and Fl. Ind. ii. 249 ; leaves alter- 

 nate clustered towards the ends of the branches obovate attenuated into a very 

 short petiole, spikes solitary axillary simple, fruit ellipsoid obscurely 5-sided, 

 not in the least compressed. Wall, Cat. 3974 ; Kurz For. FL Brit. Burma, i. 

 454. Terminalia sp. nov. No. 168, Kurz. in Journ. As. Soc. 1876, pt. ii. 130. 



ANDAMANS ; Roxburgh, Kurz. NICOBARS ; Kurz. 



Attains 100 ft. *ith branches in horizontal whorls. Leaves 6-12 in., with two 

 glandular depressions near the base .of the midrib on the under side which are often 



