Terminalia.'] LVIII. COMBKETACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 445 



obscure or wanting, glabrous when adult ; petiole in. Upper flowers of the spikes 

 male, lower hermaphrodite. Fruit 1-1 in. Much resembles T. Catappa. 



3. T. foetidissima, Griff. Notid. iv. 685 ; leaves alternate clustered 

 towards the ends of the branches, obovate attenuated into the petiole, spikes 

 solitary axillary simple, fruit 1 in. obovate ellipsoid subacute, compressed with. 

 one face convex the other flat. 



MEBGUI and MALACCA ; Griffith. Malacca, Maingay No. 644, 



Leaves 6 in., glaucescent reticulate beneath, coriaceous with cartilaginous margin, 



without glands ; petiole 1 in. Flowers all or very nearly all hermaphrodite. Young 



ovary and bracts very hairy. Calyx-teeth glabrous or nearly so within and without. 

 Reduced by Mr. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877 pt. ii. 53, 54, to T. belericd ; from 



which it differs so greatly in leaves and fruit that it raises a suspicion whether Mr. 



Kurz had the true plant of Griffith before him. 



4. T. belerica, Roxb. Char. Reform. ; leaves alternate clustered towards 

 the ends of the branches broadly elliptic narrowed equally at both ends, petiole 

 very long, spikes solitary axillary simple, fruit f in. diam. globular suddenly 

 narrowed into a short stalk smooth covered by a close fulvous tomentum, when 

 dried obscurely 5-angled. 



Throughout INDIA ; common in the plains and lower hills, extending to CEYLON 

 and MALACCA ; not in the desert region of the West of India. DISTBIB. Malaya. 



Attains 60-80 ft. Leaves 3-6 in., deciduous in the cold season, when mature 

 glabrous and generally punctate on the upper surface ; the punctations being much 

 more permanent than in the other species (whence Roth's name); petiole l-l in. 

 Bracteoles minute. Upper flowers of the spikes male, lower hermaphrodite. Young 

 ovary always tomentose. Calyx-teeth pubescent within and without. T. moluccana, 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Eat. i. pt. i. 601 differs from belerica by its short petioles ; the de- 

 scription appears compounded out of two plants. 



VAB. 1. typica ; no glands at the apex of the petiole. T. belerica, Bedd. FL Sylv. 

 t. 19 ; T. eglandulosa, Eoxb. Herb, (wrongly referred in Willd. Sp. PL iv. 968) ; 

 T. moluccana, Eoxb. Hort. Seng. 33. Fl. Ind. ii. 432 ; T. belerica, W. # A. Prodr. 

 313 excl. syn. Wall. Cat. 3968; Wight Ic. t. 91 ; Thwaites Enum. 103; Dalz. $ 

 Gibs. Bomb. FL 91 ; Brand. For. FL 222 ; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma i. 455 ; Eheede 

 Hort. Mai. iv. t. 10. T. Gella, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. iii. 227. T. punctata, 

 Eoth Nov. Sp. 381 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 13. Myrobalanus belerica, Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 

 t. 97. 



VAB. 2. belerica, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 33, Cor. PL t. 198, PL Ind. ii. 431 ; two 

 glands at the apex of the petiole beneath the leaf. DC. Prodr. iii. 12; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. i. pt. i. 600. Circar Mts., Eoxb. ; also Malaya, if T. microcarpa, Decne. Herb. 

 Timor. 129 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 602 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 502 be referred 

 here : the examples in the Kew Herbarium exactly agree but do not show the fruit. 



It is remarkable that not one specimen of this typical belerica Roxb. exists at 

 1 Kew; and that both W. & A. (Prodr. 313) and Brandis (Forest Fl. 222) expressly 

 state that they have never been able to discover a single example. The distinction 

 between it and Roxburgh's eglandulosa (moluccana, Willd. in FL Ind.) is indeed 

 trivial ; but the absence of the glands seems without exception in the Indian so-called 

 belerica ; while Roxburgh founded his belerica on the single character that it had 

 two glands, thereby differing from his T. eglandulosa, which he subsequently renamed 

 T. moluccana, Willd., a species made up of two trees. 



VAB. 3. laurinoides, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 600 ; leaves obovate or obovate- 

 elliptic shortly acuminate much thinner than in the typical belerica. Mergui ; 

 Griffith. Ceylon; Thwaites, Gardner, Col. Walker. DISTBIB. Java, Malaya. T. 

 nitens Presl. Epimel. 214 is very near but has long subpersistent bracteoles. 



T. bialata is much mixed (in absence of fruit) with T. belerica, but may generally 

 be distinguished by the absence of punctations on the leaves. 



