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month with 5 short valvate triangular lobes, deciduous. Petals 0. 

 Stamens 10, inserted on the calj 7 x-tube ; the epigynous disc within them 

 densely hairy. Ovary 1-celled, inferior ; style long, simple ; ovules 2 or 

 3, pendulous from the summit of the cell. Fruit ovoid, various in 

 size and texture, smooth or angular, or with 2-5 wings, indehiscent, 

 coriaceous. Seed solitary, exalbuminous, cotyledons convolute. Distuib. 

 Species 135 ; in the tropics of both worlds. 



Sect. I. Fruit ovoid or elliptic, sometimes compressed, 

 never winged, but sometimes keeled at the edges or obscure- 

 ly 4-5-ridged : — 



Leaves broadly oblong, lanceolate-oblong to elliptic-oblong; 

 fruit sub-clavate, obscurely 5-ridged, glabrous, 2— 3 in. long 1. T. citrina. 

 Leaves elliptic or ovate, acuminate ; fruit oblong, obscure- 

 ly 5-ribbed, slightly compressed on one side, '6-'75 in. long, 

 glabrous 



Leaves obovate, broadly elliptic or sub-rotund, minutely 

 papillose on the upper surface, the petioles very long (175-4 

 in.) ; fruit ovoid or globular-ovoid, minutely tomentose ... 

 Leaves obovate, tapering to a very narrow base j fruit 

 glabrous : — 



Fruit elliptic, 225 in. long, with very thick corky peri- 

 carp ; leaves 3-4 in. long 



Fruit obovate-ellipsoid, plano-convex, 1*5 in. long; 

 leaves 5-6 5 in. long... 



Fruit ellipsoid, somewhat compressed, keeled at the 

 edges, 2 in. long ; pericarp fleshy; leaves 6-9 in. long 

 Sect. II. Fruit narrowly elliptic, its edges produced into 2 

 broad leathery wings : — 



Leaves obovate or oblong-obovate, 6-9 in. long, the peti- 

 oles 2'25-275 in. ; fruit 1*25-1*75 in. long, its breadth 

 (including the wings) 2 5-3' 5 in. ... 



Leaves spathulate-oblanceolate, 3-4 in. long, the petioles 

 T15-r5 in. ; fruit '75-1*25 in. long; its breadth (including 

 the wings) 12-2 in. 



1. Terminalia citrina, Fleming in Asiat. Res. XI, 183. A glab- 

 rous tree 60-80 feet high ; young shoots slender, rusty-pubescent, but 

 at an early stage glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, sometimes almost 

 opposite, from broadly oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, on short 

 bi-glandular petioles, the apex acute or shortly acuminate, the base cune- 

 ate or sometimes rounded ; both surfaces when very young rusty-puberu- 

 lous, afterwards perfectly glabrous and shining, the lower minutely areo- 

 late-reticulate, the bottom of the areolae covered with white felt; main 

 nerves 8-12 pairs, curving upwards, distinct on both surfaces when dry; 

 length 3-6 in., breadth l'25-2'5 in., petiole '4 or *5 in. Spikes in small 

 panicles shorter than the leaves, axillary, deciduously rusty-puberulous. 



2. T. Mann. 



3. T. belerica. 



4>. T. phellocarpa. 



5. T. foetidissima. 



6. T. Catappa. 



7. T. bialata. 



8. T. subspathulata. 



