Terminalia. CombretaceCB. 1 59 



1. T. belerica,* Roxb. PL Cor. ii. 54 (1798). Bulu, 6". Tanti, T. 



Myrobala.7ins bellerica, Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 90. Moon Cat. 73. Thw. 

 Enum. 103. C. P. 1605. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 445. Wight, 111. t. 91. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 19. 



A large tree, with straight, often buttressed trunk, and 

 long horizontal branches, bark vertically furrowed, brown, 

 young parts glabrous ; 1. alternate, closely placed at ends of 

 branchlets, 4-6 in., obovate-oval, tapering to base, rounded or 

 very shortly acuminate at apex, entire, with a pellucid margin, 

 glabrous and shining on both sides, paler beneath, stiff, 

 venation finely reticulate, pellucid, main veins prominent 

 beneath, petiole i|-2 in., cylindrical; fl. small, the male 

 shortly pedicellate, the bisexual nearly sessile, numerous in 

 axillary spikes or racemes shorter than 1., often crowded at 

 ends of branchlets without 1. so as to form a terminal panicle; 

 peduncles pubescent, bracts minute, caducous ; cal. tomentose 

 outside, the limb with long crisp hair within; drupe i^-i|in., 

 ovoid, often somewhat pyriform, narrowed at base, irregular 

 on surface, but not at all angled, covered with a fine, close, 

 brownish-yellow tomentum, stone large, woody, very obscurely 

 angled, with a large seed-cavity. 



Low country, moist and intermediate regions, not common. Kurune- 

 gala (Gardner). Often planted. Fl. February; pale greenish -yellow, 

 strongly scented. 



Also in India and Malaya. 



The Ceylon tree is the variety laurinoides, Miq. usually, but it varies 

 considerably in the form of the leaves. It never possesses the two glands 

 at the top of the petiole figured and described by Roxburgh. 



The fruits are the ' Beleric Myrobalans ' of the old pharmacists, and 

 are much used in native medicine. Wood greyish-yellow, hard but not 

 durable, moderately heavy. 



T. Catappa, L., the Kottamba of the Singhalese and the 'country 

 almond' of the English, is largely planted throughout the low country. 

 It is native to Malaya, but is grown in most Tropical countries. Hermann 

 does not seem to have noticed it in Ceylon. 



2. T. chebula,* Retz. Obs. Bot. v. 31 (1789). Aralu, S. Ka- 

 dukkay, T. 



Moon Cat. 73. Thw. Enum. 103. C. P. 1604. 

 II. B. Ind. ii. 246. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 27. 



A moderate-sized tree, trunk crooked, with many spreading 

 branches, bark very thick, grey-brown, young parts pubescent; 

 1. alt., 3-5 in., broadly oblong-oval, rounded or cordate at 

 base, very obtuse at apex, pubescent on both sides especially 



* 'I he names belerica and chebula are Latinisations of the Arabic 

 these two kinds of myrobalans by which they were first known 

 in Europe. 



