Termmalia.] lviii. cOMBEBTACEi). (C. B. Clarke.) 445 



obscure or wanting, glabroiis when adult ; petiole i in. Upper flowers of the spikes 

 male, lower hermaphrodite. Frmt 1-1^ in. — Much resembles T. Catappa, 



3. T. foetldlsslma, Griff. Notvli iv. 685 ; leaves alternate clustered 

 towards the ends of the branches, obovate attenuated into the petiole, spikes 

 solitary axillary simple, fruit IJ in. obovate ellipsoid subacute, compressed with 

 one face convex the other flat. 



Mbegui and Malacca ; Griffith. Malacca, Maingay No. 644, 643J. 



Leaves 6 in., glaucescent reticulate beneath, coriaceous with cartilaginous margin, 

 without glands ; petiole 1 in. Flowers all or very nearly all hermaphrodite. Young 

 ovary and bracts very hairy. Calyx-t6e\h glabrous or nearly so within and without. 



Reduced by Mr. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877 pt. ii. 53, 54, to T. beUrica ; from 

 which it differs so greatly in leaves and fruit that it raises a suspicion whether Mr, 

 Kurz had the true plant of Grriffith before him. 



4. T. belerlca, Soxb. Char. Reform. ; leaves alternate clustered towards 

 the ends of the branches broadly elliptic narrowed equally at both ends, petiole 

 very long, spikes solitary axillary simple, fruit ^f in. diam. globular suddenly 

 narrowed into a short stalk smooth covered by a close fulvous tomentum, when 

 dried obscurely 6-angled. 



Throughout Ikdla ; common in the plains and lower hills, extending to Ceyion 

 and Maiacca ; not in the desert region of the West of India. — Disteib. Malaya. 



Attains 60-80 ft. Leaves 3-6 in., deciduous in the cold season, when mature 

 glabrous and generally punctate on the upper surface ; the punctations being much 

 more permanent than in the other species (whence Eoth's name) ; petiole 1-lJ in. 

 Bracteoles minute. Upper flowers of the spikes male, lower hermaphrodite. Young 

 ovary always tomentose. Cab/x-teefh pubescent within and without. T. moluccana, 

 Miq. Fl. Irtd. Bat. i. pt. i. 601 differs from belerica by its short petioles ; the de- 

 scription appears compounded out of two plants. 



Vab. 1. typica ; no glands at the apex of the petiole. T. belerica, Bedd. Fl. 8ylv: 

 t. 19 ; T. eglandulosa, Eoxb. Herb, {wrongly referred in WUld. Sp. PI. iv. 968) ; 

 T. moluccana, Boxb. Hbrt. Beng. 33. Fl. Ind. ii. 432 ; T. belerica, W. ^ A. Prodr. 

 313 excl. syn. Wall. Cat. 3968; Wight Ic. t. 91; Thwaites Fmwm. 103; Baits. ^ 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 91 ; Brand. For. Fl. 222 ; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma i. 455 ; Bheede 

 Sort. Mai. iv. t. 10. T. Gella, Balz. m Hook. Kew Jimm. iii. 227. T. punctata. 

 Both Nov. Sp. 381 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 13, Myrobalanus belerica, Gaertn. Fruet. ii, 

 t. 97. 



Vab. 2. belerica, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 33, Cor. PI. t. 198, Fl. Ind. ii. 431 ; two 

 glands at the apex of the petiole beneath the leaf. BC. Prodr. iii. 12; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. i. pt. i. 600. — Circar Mts., Boxb. ; also Malaya, if T. microcarpa, Becne. Herb. 

 Timor. 129 ; Mj. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 602 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 502 be referred 

 here : the examples in the Kew Herbarium exactly agree but do not show the fruit. 



It is remarkable that not one specimen of this typical belerica Eoxb. exists at 

 Kew; and that both W. & A. (Prodr. 313) and Brandis (Forest Fl. 222) expressly 

 state that they have never been able to discover a single example. The distinction 

 between it and Eoxburgh's eglandmlosa (moluccana, Willd. in Fl. Ind.) is indeed 

 trivial ; but the absence of the glands seems without exception in the Indian so-called 

 belerica ; while Eoxburgh founded his belerica on the single character that it had 

 two glands, thereby differing from his T. eglandulosa, which he subsequently renamed 

 T. moluccana, Willd., a species made up of two trees. 



Vae. 3. laurinoides, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 600 ; leaves obovate or obovate- 

 elliptic shortly acuminate much thinner than in the typical belerica. Mergui ; 

 Griffith. Ceylon; Thwaites, Gardner, Col. Walker.— Distrib. Java, Malaya. T. 

 nitens Presl. lipimd. 214 is very near but has long subpersistent bracteoles. 



T. bialata is much mixed (in absence of fruit) with T. belerica, but may generally 

 be distinguished by the absence of punctations on the leaves. 



