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No — 3 stamens inflexed in bud; erect trees; flowers in 
- Terminalia. 
Petals ae as ely wanting ; stamens straight in bud ; usually 
climbers ; flowers usually in racem - Combretum. 
x xX Calys-tube long- produoa began: the ovary. 
freer 2-winged at base; stam es es al- 
nate; fiowers in dense heads ; - Anogeissus. . 
Calyetabe B-comered ay equa sae beyond the ‘ovary ; the 
3 stamens straight ; — ny aiaed — 
bs 
swe ‘ ‘Seasieat shru : " Guleaiiie 
O Calyx-limb persistent 
Calyx-tube 5-ribbed, not produced beyond t =p: net be mes limb en- 
larging after flowering ; stamens eaves Op- 
posite ; climbers, with racemose flow - Calycopteris, 
Saiye tae elongated, narrowed above the ovary, the limb not 
SATeNg 5 Saee_E- oM AUSES Slee alternate ; 
fiowers in racemes ‘ . - - Lumnitzera, 
* Stamens alternating with as ma ‘glands or staminodes; 
—— opening by a slit Lage ioe the sisi riidainn or in 
Ovules solitary im cymes. 
Chae Borclcovyg a Ral “fruit alia 2. or Sees 
with 3-foliolate lea . Illigera. 
Calystobes t imbricate, 2 of “rigs persiste istent and enlargin g i 
long terminal wings ; erect tree with simple or lobed raeB: Gyrocarpus. 
TERMINALIA, L. 
‘Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamously pate Calyx-tube 
not produced beyond the ovary, the limb bell-shaped or urceolate, 
5-cleft, deciduous. Petals none. Stamens in 2 series; filaments 
celled, with 2 or rarely 3 ovules ; style subulate with a 
simple stigma. atigulite, compressed or winged, sometimes 
samaroid, dry or fleshy, the putamen 
coriaceous or bony. Seed 
pendulous, the testa membranous. Cotyledons convolute,— Trees 
or erect shrubs, with alternate or rarely opposite or whorled lea 
often at the base. Flowers small, usually Stionatecly 
smelling, in axillary spikes. 
* Fruit a —< — with a long compressed or obsoletely 
Young shoots 064 pers es cuneate obovate, very port 
ioled ; spikes all =n, panne: drupes compressed T. catappa. 
As former, but drupes obsolete 5-angular, red within Z é 7. procera, 
Buds rus rusty villous ; leaves ae on 2-3 in. long petioles; spikes 
all simple, puberulous ; drupes obovate, usually silky pubes-, : 
cent . T. Belerica. 
Young shoots and under-side of the short-petioled oblong leaves 
aa ; spikes simple or panicled, to rang r puberu- 
: Ana oval, glabrous ; calyx-tube v T. chebula. 
As fore but calyx-tube quite glabrous, the S aities “and fruits 
h smaller . ZT. tomentella. 
Very 3 pennies shoots rusty-villous ; leaves quite glabrous, ‘shortly 
petioled, acuminate ; spikes tomentose or se hg ected 
in terminal panicles ; drupes uisecdancociete Peseta 
5-cornered . . . : . . a . tee a; citrina. 
