“0 BENGAL PLANTS. [Ano 
765. eavigte LANCEOLATA Wall. A. acuminata var. 
lat 451; E. D. oc. 1146. 
Ciba 
A tall tree. 
326. Terminalia Linn. 
arge trees; leaves alternate or subopposite, entire or slightly 
crenulate, often with glands on petiole or on the mi 
near the base. Flowers small, spicate, the spikes sometimes 
narrow, soon deciduous. Sepals 5, connate in a cam 
calyx, Hale ose slightly beyond the ovary ; lobes of limb valvae, 
triangular, deciduous. Petals 0. Stamens 10, inserted on 
RSP with a hairy, epigynous disk between them and ovary. 
Carpel solitary, inferior; ovules 2 or 3, pendulous from apex 
cell ; vse long, simple. Fruit an ovoid, fleshy and stringy: 
coriaceous drupe, with hard, indehiscent endocarp, 
pean or with 2 or 5 angles or wings. Seed solitary ; otal 
convolute. 
Fruit not winged, ovoid or subcompressed :— 
Leaves clustered towards ends of twigs, alternate; spikes always 
simple, axillar 
ie sone base of obovate leaf narrow but cordate; fruit 
brous, ellipsoid, somewhat compressed, showing mc 
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woecesoucer® 
Leaves not clustered, usually more or less price 
ect petioles distinct ; fruit somewhat 5-ridged, at leas 
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fete acute but not — at apex, rounded at base; 
ellipsoid or obovoid, -75-1:25 im. long. .......++eseereeeeeettt o 
Leaves acuminate at apex, ee at ira fruit oblong- 
2 in. ae! slightly 5-ridged, even when fr 
Fruit with 5 subequal acute wings; spikes rasitaiaate’ ‘eaves 
or subopposite :— 
Leaves i Nc ee at length glabrous beneath, oblong or ai 
old trees, lanceolate in seedlings; wings of fruit marked 
ascending striations; bark pale, smooth, flaky ....+-++-++1-77"" 
Leaves distinctly petioled, usually persistently pubescent 
’ elliptic or prea wings of fruit marked with horizontal * 
bark dark-grey, rough, corrugated 
