Terminalia.] — COMBRETACER. 455 
pubescent ; leaves obversely lanceolate to obovate-oblong, usually 
unequal at the acute base, on a rather slender petiole 4-7 in. long, 
5-8 in. long, coriaceous, glabrous, acute or apiculate ; flowers small, 
white, almost sessile, forming glabrous axillary racemes, the her- 
maphrodite ones situated near the base ; calyx-limb salver-shaped ; 
petals ovate-lanceolate, acute ; stamens alternately shorter and 
meurved ; drupes ellipsoid-oblong, obsoletely 5-cornered, glabrous, 
about an inch long or somewhat longer, yellow, the mesocarp pulpy, 
red, somewhat acid, the nut conform with the drupe, 5-angular and 
not in the least compressed. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the Andamans.—Fr. R.S. 
8. T. Belerica, Roxb. ; Bedd. Sylv. Mad. t. 19; Brand. For. 
_ Fl, 222.—Thitsein.—A leaf-shedding tree (70—80 + 30—40 + 6—8), 
parts glabrous, the leaf-buds rusty pubescent; bark thick, 
brittle, longitudinally fissured and cracked, blackish ; cut yellow ; 
eaves crowded at the end of the branchlets, obovate to obovate- 
oblong, on a glandless or 2-glandular slender petiole 2-3 in. long, 
often somewhat unequal at the base, apiculate, entire, membranous, 
5-7 in. long, glabrous; flowers small, dull greyish yellow, sessile, 
in axillary, solitary, simple, puberulous spikes, the males towards the 
apex of the spike, the females below ; calyx shortly rusty pubescent 
outside, densely rusty villous at the base mside, the tube oblong, 
pubescent ; drupes obovate, nearly as large as a plum, corky-fleshy, 
usually silky puberulous. 
— nent in the mixed forests, especially the upper ones, all over Pegu 
down to Upper Tenasserim, rather rare in Prome and Ava, up to 2,000 ft. eleva- 
tion.—Fl. Apr.-May ; Fr. C.S.—l.—SS. = Metam, SiS. 
REMaEKS.— Wood rather soft, white, tolerably durable. O’=40 pd. Good 
packing-boxes. Exudes a gum, 
4. T. tomentella, Kz.—Hpangah.—A tree (80—100 + 50—80 
; i with a 
for 
greenish yellow, smooth. 
