446 LVIII. COMBRETACE2E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Terminalia. 



5. T. Chebula, Retz Obs. v. 31 ; leaves not clustered often subopposite 

 ovate or elliptic usually acute not acuminate and rounded at the base, spikes 

 terminal often panicled, fruit f-l in. ellipsoidal or obovoid from a broad base, 

 glabrous more or less 5-ribbed when dry. Roxb. Hort. Berig. 33, Cor. PI. t. 

 197, Fl. Ind. ii. 433 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 12 ; Wall. Cat. 3967 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 

 313 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 601 ; Dah $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 91 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. t. 27 ; Brand. For. Fl. 223 and t. 29 ; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma i. 456. 

 T. reticulata, Roth. Nov. Sp. 381 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 13. T. Aruta, Ham. in G. 

 Don Gen. Syst. ii. 659. Myrobalanus Chebula, Gaertn. Fruct. ii. t. 97. Em- 

 bryogonia arborea, Teys. $ Binn. No.. 2 160 in Hort. Bog. 



Abundant in Northern India from Kumaon to Bengal, and southward to the 

 DECCAN table lands at 1000-3000 ft. alt., and CEYLON, BURMA and the MALAY 

 PENINSULA. DISTBIB. Siam, Malaya. 



Attains 80-100 ft. Leaves 4-5 in., deciduous in the cold season, more or less 

 hairy when young ; petiole about 1 in. often with two glands near its summit. Ra- 

 cemes terminal. Bracteoles conspicuous in the young spikes, exceeding the flowers 

 pubescent, but soon deciduous. Flowers all hermaphrodite. Calyx-teeth hairy 

 within. 



VAE. 1, typica ; adult leaves nearly glabrous beneath or the interstices of the 

 ultimate nerves with minute sunk white tomentum, young ovary shaggy without, calyx- 

 teeth without glabrous. Deccan, Ceylon, and Burma and Malay Peninsula. 



VAB. 2 (T. citrina of authors partly) differs from var. 1 only in having the 

 young ovary quite glabrous ; it has the ovate fruit and round-based leaves of T. 

 Chebula. Common in Northern India from Kumaon to Bengal, and in Chota 

 Nagpore. 



VAE. 3 ; adult leaves very shaggy beneath, fruit much smaller, often only f in. 

 Gnarled small trees on the summit of Parasnath in Behar alt. 4000 ft. : but pass by 

 degrees into var. 2 the common form at the base of Parasnath. 



VAR. 4, tomentella, Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma i. 455 (sp.) ; leaves when young 

 densely coppery-pubescent beneath, when adult pubescent or glabrous beneath, young 

 ovary glabrous, fruit ovoid hardly 1 in. Pegu, up to 2000 ft. alt. ; Kurz. This is 

 reckoned, perhaps rightly, a species by Kurz, but the leaves are less hairy/ the fruits 

 less reduced in size than those of the preceding var. 



VAR. 5, gangetica ; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 33 and Fl. Ind. ii. 437 (sp.) ; adult leaves 

 with brown-red silky hairs on both surfaces. Wall. Cat. 3967 E. ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. 

 i. pt. i. 602. Banks of the Ganges ; Roxburgh. North-west India, cult. Edgeworth. 

 Very unlike the typical Chebula by the brown silky hair which covers the twigs 

 leaves and whole inflorescence. It may be a good species but the fruit is similar to 

 that of Chebula. Eoxburgh remarks that this tree ripens its fruit on the banks of 

 the Ganges, a remark he would hardly have made had he thought the tree indigenous. 

 It is therefore likely that T. gangetica, Roxb. does not grow wild within the limits of 

 the Indian Flora. 



VAR 6, parviflora, Thwaites Enum. 103 (sp.) ; calyx-teeth pubescent without. 

 T. zeylanica Heurck $ Muell. Arg. Obs. Bot. 220. CEYLON ; Thwaites. The flowers 

 are not smaller nor the fruits more acutely ribbed than in some examples of T. 

 Chebula. 



6. T. citrina, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 33, Fl. Ind. ii. 435; leaves sub- 

 opposite elliptic or oblong acuminate narrowed into the petiole, spikes terminal 

 and lateral often panicled, fruit nearly 2 in. oblong-lanceolar, while fresh ob- 

 scurely ,5-angular. Wall. Cat. 3970; DC. Prodr. ii. 12 : Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 

 pt. i. 602. Myrobalanus .citrina, Gaert. Fruct. ii. t. 97 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 313 ; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 223. 



ASSAM, EAST BENGAL, BUEMA and TENASSEBIM ; frequent. MALACCA at Mount 

 Ophir. 



