l6o Combretacece. \Terminalia. 



when young, thick and rigid; petiole J-f in., pubescent, with 

 2 prominent glands at the top just beneath 1.; fl. as in the 

 last, but spikes all terminal, bracts linear, hairy, conspicuous 

 in bud ; cal.-limb glabrous outside, with long hair within ; 

 drupe pendulous, about i|in., broadly ovoid, glabrous, not at 

 all angled, yellowish-green, stone oblong, bony, very thick, 

 obscurely angled, seed cavity very small. 



Low country up to 2500 ft., principally in the dry districts, rather rare, 

 but locally abundant. Jaffna (Gardner); Watagoda(Thwaites); Panwila; 

 Uva Province, frequent; abundant about Nilgala, where it is gregarious. 

 Fl. April; greenish- white. 



Also in India, Burma, and Malaya. 



The fruits are called ' Ink-nuts ' or ' Gall-nuts ' by the English, and 

 are collected for sale to the Moormen by the country people. In Uva 

 the collection is leased, and the sale in 1892 fetched R. 7500. They are 

 the ' Chebulic Myrobalans ' of the old pharmacists, and are here a valued 

 medicine, both when young and in a mature condition. The flesh is very 

 rich in tannin. When dried they show five blunt obscure angles. Wood 

 heavy, very hard, dark brown with a purplish tinge, close-grained, durable. 



3. T. parviflora, Thw. Etium. 103 (1859). Hanpalanda, 5. 



T. zeylanica, Van Heurck and Mull.-Arg. Obs. Bot. 220. C. P. 618. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 446 (var. of T. Chebuld). 



A moderate-sized tree, with smooth, thin, pale brown bark, 

 young shoots quite glabrous ; 1. numerous, alt. or sub-opposite, 

 3|— 4! in., ovate-oval, rounded or narrowed and often unequal 

 at base, tapering to acuminate obtuse apex, entire but some- 

 what undulate, perfectly glabrous on both sides, rather thin, 

 venation pellucid, petiole §— f long, flat above, without glands; 

 fl. sessile, very small, spikes in terminal and axillary panicles, 

 very finely pilose, about equalling L, bracts minute, linear, 

 pubescent ; cal. pubescent outside, disk covered with long 

 hair, segm. 4 (rarely 5), triangular, acute; stam. 8 (rarely 10); 

 drupe 1-1^ in. by f- wide, oblong-ovoid, blunt, cylindrical, 

 not at all ribbed, smooth, pale olive green with white dots, 

 stone bony, with 5 deep wide grooves, and with 5 sharp angles, 

 so as to be star-shaped in section. 



Moist region in forests up to 4000 ft., rather rare. Ramboda (Gardner); 

 Ambagamuwa; Hantane; Heneratgoda; Karuwita Korale. 



Fl. April-June ; pale sulphur yellow. 



Endemic. 



Clarke, in Fl. B. Ind., places this as a variety under T. chebula; he 

 cannot have examined adequate specimens. 



Heart-wood orange-brown, moderately heavy, close-grained, smooth. 



4. T. glabra, W. &* A. Prod. 314 (1834). Kumbuk, S. 

 Xttarutu, T. 



T. alata, Moon Cat. 73. Thw. Enum. 104. C. P. 1603. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 447 (T. Arjuna). Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 28 (T. Arjuna) not 

 good. 



