36 COMBRKTACE.E. 



15 Guinea ; 2 S. Africa ; 4 Madagascar ; 2 Bourbon and Mauritius ; 1 the 

 Society Islands ; 2 China ; and 64 the E. Indies. Of the latter, 23 belong 

 to Jenninalia ; 25 to Combretum ; 2 to Poivrea ; 2 to Getonia ; 2 to Quis- 

 qualis ; 4 to Anogeissus ; 2 to Lumnitzera ; 1 to Bobua ; 1 to Sphalanthus ; 

 1 to Ceratostachys ; and 1 to Agatisanthes. 



Astringency seems to be the chief characteristic of the order. Bucida 

 Buceras, L. yields a bark, in the W. Indies employed for tanning. The 

 same is the case in Brazil with the bark of Laguncularia racemosa, Gartn. 

 The seeds of a species of this tribe are recommended as an efficacious 

 vermifuge by Dr. Oxley of Malacca, who gives them pounded and mixed 

 with a little jam or honey. " The dose," says he, " may be as large as you 

 can get a child to take ; but I believe four or five good nuts are sufficient. 

 The natives sometimes eat them by handfuls, so they are perfectly harmless. 

 I have known one dose discharge, without any other medicine given after 

 it, twenty-nine lumbrici." (Trans, med. and phys. soc. Calcutta, vol. 7, 

 p. 489.) Dr. Wallich who only saw the fruit, referred it to Quisqualis 

 indica, L. To judge from a flowering branch, lately received from Dr. 

 Oxley, of the plant in question, it is, however, a species of Combretum. 

 Terminalia, L. (DC.pr. 3, p. 10; — W. and A. pr. \, p. Z\1.) 



1. angustifolia, Jacq. {DC. o. c. p. 11 ; — W. and A. I. c. ; — J. Grah. Cat. 

 B. pi. p. 69 : — T. Benzoin, L. — Catappa Benzoin, Gcirtn. fr. 2, t. 

 127.) b. Peninsula of India. Fl. small, green, odoriferous, March 

 and April. A milky juice flows out from this tree, which being fra- 

 grant on drying and resembling Benzoin, is used in Churches at the 

 Mauritius as a kind of incense. {Royle.) Fruit used like that of T. 

 Chebula. 



2. Catappa, L. (DC. pr. Z, p. 11 ; — W. and A. pr. 1, p. 313 ; — Roxb. 

 fl. ind. 2, p. 430 ;—J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 69 ;— B. M. 57, t. 3004 ;— 



Wight, icon. 1, t. 172. — T. moluccana, Lam. — DC. I. c. not Roxb. — 

 Rheed. 4, t. 3-4; — Rumph. 1, t. 68.) ^tWl^T Badam. Country Almond 

 tree. L. b Moluccas. Both Peninsulas of India, Bengal, (Seram- 

 pore.) Fl. small, purplish-green, H. S ; fr. R. S. — Wood good. Ker- 

 nels (^Country Almonds) palatable. 



3. procera, Roxb. (Coram. 3, t. 244 ;— /. ind. 2, p. 429 ,—DC. pr. 3, p. 

 12.) L. b Andaman Islands. Fl. small, white. In H. C. G., fl. 

 Feb. and March ; fr. R. S. (Roxb.) 



4. bialata. Wall. (Rept. — Pentaptera bialata, Roxb.fl. ind. 2,j). 441 ; — 

 DC. pr. 3, p. 15.) L. b Mountainous parts of India. Fl. small, 

 greenish-yellow. In H. C. G. fl, H. S. ; fr. Jan. and Feb. 



5. Bellerica, Roxh. (Corom. 2, t. 198 ;— /. ind. 2, p. 431 ;— DC.pr. 3, p. 

 \1;—W. and A.pr. 1,|). 313 ;— Wight, ill. 1, f. 91 ,—J. Grah. Cat. 

 H. pi. p. 69 ; — Rheed. 4, t. 10.) ^^?1 Buhura, L. b Peninsula of 

 India, Goalparrah, Suk.inaghur, Goruckpur, Dhomtola, Morung 

 Mountains. Fl. small, greyish-green, offensively smelling. H. S. ; fr. C. 

 iS. — Wood white, softisli, durable, (Roxb.) Bark, when wounded, gives 



