90 38. RHiZOPHORAOEJir. [Carath'a. 



CARALLIA Roxb. 



Trees or shrulfs. Leaves simple, ovate. Flowers small, in short 

 branching eyiiies, often crowded. Calyx with mintue bracts at the 

 base, shortly 5-8-lobed. Petals 5-8, inserted round the thin disc. 

 Disc 10-16-lobed. Stamens usually twice as many as petals. Ovary 

 inferior. Fruit globose, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seeds albuminous 



C. integerrima, DC. Prod. III. 33 ; Fl. Br. I. 2. 439 ; Bedd, Fl. Sylv. 

 t. 193; Bramlis For. Fl. 219; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 9,'). Shemjali, 

 j)anasi, M. ; anda-murjal, K. ; piinschi, Vern. Throughout the evergreea 

 forests of the Konkan and North Kanara. Flo^vers in bud appear during 

 August, b-utdo not open until Jany. or Feb. Fr. H, S, The inflorescence 

 is covered with resinous scales, 



Okder 39. COMBKETACEJE. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves petiolate, entire. F'lowers bractePote', 

 usually bisexual. Calyx-tube adnate to ovary, litnb 4-5-divided. 

 Petals 4-5 or 0. Stamens 4-5 or twice as many, on the calyx. 

 Ovary inferior, 1-celled. Ovules 1-7, pendulous from apex of cell. 

 Fruit 1-celled, 1-seeded, often winged. Cotyledons convolute or 

 plano-convex. 



Flowers racemose or capitate. Anthers opening by a 



lotigitudiniil slit. 

 Petals 0. Calyx-limb deciduous or accrescent. 

 Flowers spiked. Calyx-limb deciduous. ... ... Termiwalia. 



Flowers spiked. Calyx-limb accrescent. ... ... Caltcoptebis. 



Flowers capitate. Calyx-limb deciduous. ... ... Anogei.ssus. 



Petals 4-5. 



Tree. Leave-? alternate. Calyx-limb persistent. Lumnitzera, 



Climbing shrub.?. 



Calyx-tube short Combretum. 



Calyx-tube long, produced beyond ovary QuiSQUALrs. 



Flowers cymo.<'e. Anthers opening by lateral valves. Gybogarpus. 



TERMINALIA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves entire, petiolate^ without stipules. 

 Flowers usually bisexual, bracteolate. Calyx-tube adnate to the 

 ovary; limb 4-5 cleft, segments valvate. Petals 4-5 or 0. Stamens, 

 4-5 or 8-10, on the calyx. Ovary inferior, 1-celled; ovules 2-3, 

 pendulous from the aj>ex of the cell. Fruit ovoid, angular or 

 winged, usually indehiscent. 



Fruit ovoid, not winged, obscurely ridged. 



Fruit ellipsoid, •2-ridged... .. T. C'atappa. 



Fruit glolnilar, tomentose ... ... ... ... 'J', bekrica. 



Fruit ellipsoid or obovoid, glabrous, more or less T. Chebula. 



5-ribbed when dry. 

 Fruit with 3-7 longitudinal wings. 

 Wings of fruit sul>equal. 

 Baik white. Fruit with 5-7, narrow, subequal 



wings ... ... ... ... ... ... ... T. Arjuna. 



Frait with 5, Hubequal, broad wings. Bark black ... T. totneniosa. 

 Fruit 3-winged ; wings 1 large and 2 small ... ... T. panicul^ta. 



