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Pig. 186. — Terminalia Arjuna, Bedd. k. 



its 1. Feb.-April and is one of the latest trees to come out in fresh leaf. T. macrocarpa. 

 is a variety in the Eng forests of Burma with large fr., up to 2k in. across. 



13. T. Arjuna, Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. t. "28 : Brandis F. Fl. 

 224.— Syn. T. glabra, W. et 

 Am., Trimen Handb. Ceylon 

 ii. 160 : Pentapti ra Arjuna, 

 Roxb. Vera. Arjuna, Kawa, 

 Kolia, Hind. : Dhaula Sadr, 

 Guzerat: Holematti, Kan. 

 Thella maddi, Tel. 



A large tree, with huge 

 often buttressed trunk, bark 

 smooth grey, flaking oft' iu 

 large thin layers, branches 

 drooping, heartwood dark 

 brown, very hard. Glabrous, 

 only inflorescence slightly 

 pubescent. Leaves generally 

 sub-opposite, hard, coriaceous, 

 oblong, sometimes spathulate- 

 oblong, often crenulate, blade 

 3-6, petiole \ in. long. Fl. 

 like 12, fr. 1 in. long with 5-7 

 thick narrow wings, \ in. 

 broad, irregularly marked 

 with ascending lines. 



Common on the banks of rivers, streams and dry watercourses in Central India and 



Simtl H ii ii"- I'eiiinsula and Ceylon. Here anil there in the Subhimalayan tracl 



Eangra, l».l">. 1868). Not in east and central Bengal nor in Burma. Foresters readilj 



distinguish these t wo species by their liark. their mod,- of growth and by their habitat, 



Fl. Brit. End. ii. lis. Trimen llandb. Ce3'lon ii. 161) are doubtful regarding 



them. 



14. T. Oliveri, Brandis iu Hook. Ic. t. 2202. Torn. Than, Burin. 



A moderate-sized glabrous tree, 1. sub-opposite broadly-ovate, blade li-3, 

 petiole \ in., sec. n. 5-ii pair. PI. small, nearly glabrous, in slender terminal 

 panicles. Wings narrow, membranous, J in. long, .', in. broad. 



Dry region of the [rawaddi valley between \'-> and 2> X. lat.. chiefly in the Pakokku 

 district, a sociated with Acacia Catechu. Bark thick, filled with stanli. an extrai 

 the bark used to adulterate Cutch. 



C. Fr. dry. winged, fl. zygomorphic, wings uuequal. 



I.".. T. paniculata, Roth; Bedd. PI. Sylv. t. 20; 

 Brandis P. PI. 226. Vern. Kinjal, Kindal, Mar.; Honal, 

 Huluce, Kim.: Puli maddi, Tel. ; Puluvai, Tarn. 



A large tree, I. glabrous, oblong, from a rounded, 



often u pial base: pale-brown beneath, blade 4—7. 



petiole J— j in. long, the upper I. always alternate, the 

 lower often opposite, seen. 10-1.*> pair. PI. in ample 

 rusty-pubescent panicles, bracts pubescent, acumii 

 free porti I calya glabrous reddish-brown, cup- 

 shaped, the inside clothed with long brown hairs, ovary 

 with 6 rounded ridges. Fr. \ \ in. long, rusty-pubes 

 rent, sessile, close set in large spreading panicles, the 

 front ridge of ovary growing out into a wing, which is 

 j 1 in. broad. 



Forests on the weal md the Ghats, on the Nilgiris, 



