456 COMBRETACER. [ Terminalia. 
Has.—Common in the upper mixed forests and low forests all over Pegu 
and .. down to Tenasserim, up to 2,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. June ; Fr. 
C.S.—1.—SS. = Metam. SiS. Ar, 
RemarKs.—Wood pale-brown, rather heavy; close-grained, the heart-wood 
yellowish brown. Used for yokes and canoes. Fruit mixed with iron-clay 
gives an ink of an inferior 
. T. chebula, Retz. ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 27; Brand. For. 
Fi. e358, t. 29.—A tree ig anlrsighabe Tage ae shedding leaves 
in H.S., the younger parts rusty villous; leaves opposite or nearly 
so, oblong, on a 1$-2 in. long petiole usually 2-glanded below the 
apex, shortly and bluntish acuminate or apiculate, with or with- 
out 2s glands on the margin near the base, entire, almost 
coriaceous, 6-8 in. long, while young covered with a dense rusty- 
coloured tomentum, when full-grown glabrous above, or altogether 
glabrescent ; flowers small, dull-whi a all herm aphrodite, sub- 
eae St 5-angular, smooth, ‘sini yellow, the + mesocarp hard, 
yellowish 
Has. Chittagong. 
ReMarKs.—Sap-wood greyish, streaked, tolerably close-grained ; the heart- 
wood Sion. _yollivetist or dark-brown to blackish h, heavy ; — a fine polish. Good 
for furniture. Nuts used with iron-clay for a good sort of ink ; they also give 
with alum a durable yellow dye. 
6. T. citrina, Roxb.—A tree (60—80+15—30+5—8), shed- 
ding leaves in H.S., all parts glabrous, the very young shoots rusty 
villous ; leaves almost opposite, from broadly lanceolate to oblong, on 
a 4-1 in. long petiole2-glanded at the apex, usually with a few glands 
along the margin towards the base, shortly acuminate, entire, char- 
taceous, when very young rusty villous, soon quite glabrous, and, 
in a dried state, of a peculiar metallic or silky lustre, 4-6 in. long ; 
flowers small, dull-yellow, sessile, all hermaphrodite, ” subtended by 
a deciduous linear bractlet, forming spikes collected in a terminal 
Se af ecg 
* *« Fruit a dry nut with a chartaceous or fibrous-coriaceous 
pericarp, samaroid, or 3-5-cornered, with as many or 
Sewer equal or unequal wings. 
— 7.7. bialata, Wall—Lein-pen—A tree (80—1004+40—60+ 
— onlin, leafless in H.S., all parts glabrous, the leaf-buds rusty 
