L. COMBBETACE.E 3<J7 



tangential bands « 1 f wood parenchyma. Several species, climbers as well as trees, 

 have strands of phloem in the wood. As far as known, the structure of the climbing 

 species is normal, but they demand further study. 



A. PI. in spikes, calyx-limb deciduous. 



Petals 0. Large trees. 1. alternate or subopposite . 1. Termi.nai.ia. 

 Petals -1 or 5. except in Combretum apetalum. 



Climbing shrubs or undershrubs, 1. opposite, 



>oiin-times whorled 2. Combretum. 



Climbers, 1. opposite, ealyx-tube slender, long . 3. Quisqcalis. 



B. Fl. in spikes, calyx-limb persistent. 



A rambling shrub, rusty pubescent, 1. opposite . 4. Calycopteris. 

 Trees or shrubs, wholly glabrous, 1. alternate, thick, 



fleshy 5. Loixitzera. 



('. Fl. in globose heads, fr. small, flat, imbricated . . 6. Axogf.issus. 



Two genera. Uligera and G-yrdcarpua, in Gen. PI. i. 689 included under Combretacece 

 (Sub-order Oyrocarpeee) with winged fruit, but entirely different in other respects, will 

 be included under Hernandiaceee. 



1. TERMINALIA, Linn. : Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 443. 



Large trees, 1. alternate or nearly opposite. Fl. sessile, small, greenish or 

 white, generally in long spikes. Calyx-tube campanulate, constricted above 

 the ovary, as a rule densely woolly within, deciduous, limb 5-toothed, petals 0. 

 Stamens 10, in two rows. Seed included in a coriaceous or osseous endocarp, 

 cotyledons convolute. Species 105, tropics of both hemispheres. 



A. Fr. more or loss fleshy, often angled, not winged. 

 (a) Spikes simple ( see also T. pallida). 



1. T. Catappa, Linn.: Wight let. 17-2 : Bedd. Fl. Svlv. t. 18 ; King in 

 Journ. As. S,,c Bengal GO ,1S!IS . 331.— Svn. '/'. /„■■„;,■<,. R,,xb. (',„-. PL t.22i; 

 Kurz F. Fl. i. 454. The Indian Almond tree. 



A tall tree, branches whorled, stem often buttressed. L. clustered at the 

 ends of branclilets. glabrous, petiole and midrib more or less hairy, obovate, 

 from a narrow cordate base. 6—10 in. long, petiole short, stout and channelled. 

 Fl. white, in slender axillary spikes, shorter than 1., $ at the top, c£ below. 

 Drupe glabrous, ellipsoid, somewhat compressed, keeled all round, 2 in. long, 

 pericarp fibrous and fleshy, endocarp hard, oil expressed from the seeds. 



Beach forests of the Andaman* and the Malay Peninsula. PL Feb. -May. A widely 

 Bpread literal species within the tropics. Cultivated throughout tropical India. The 

 I. turn deep red in autumn before falling. The seeds are eaten. 



2. T. belerica,* Roxb. Cor. PL t. L98; Wight 111. t. 91 : Bedd. PL Svlv. 

 t. lit: Brandis F. PL 222. Vern. Bahera, Bftatm, Hind. : Balra, Beheda,Max.; 

 Tare, Kan.; Tandi, Thandra, Tel. ; Tani, Thani, Tarn. ; Thitsein, Burin. 



A large deciduous tier, lurk bluish-grey, w 1 hard, yellowish -grey, no 



heart-wood. Branclilets. ..vary and outside of calyx with soft rust-coloured 



pubescence. L. clustered al il nds ..f branehlets, minutelj puberulous when 



young, glabrous when full grown, elliptic or obovate-elliptio from an acute 

 base, blade I '.», petj..le I I :'. in. long. PL greenish-yellow, with Strong 

 offensive smell, (J and . mixed, spikes simple, ou the current year's shoots, 

 in the axils of Lor of fallen 1.. bracts linear, early caducous. Inside of calyx 

 woollj with l"ug brown hairs. Fruit ovoid, grey, velvetv. I in. long, pericarp 

 dry. ' 



Subhimalayan trad from near the Indus eastwards. Common throughout India and 



In Cor. Plants Roxburgh writes betlerica, in PI. Ind. ii. HI, belerica. Roxb. 

 describes and figures two glands on top of petiole, which do nol 'be >|... i- 



mens examined by me. nor have they been found by others. 



