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3. CONOCARPUS, Gaert. 



1. C Latifolia, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 442. — A lurge erect tree 

 with white bark ; leaves elHptic or obovate-obtuse or emarginate, 

 smooth ; heads of flowers aggregated, on branched peduncles ; fruit 

 coriaceous, scale-Kke, closely imbricated. Meera hills, and other 

 elevated jungly places in the Concan. The timber is good for cart- 

 axles, and the tree produces a very white, hard, and valuable gum. 

 Wight Ic. 994. Native name " Daura" or " Dabria." 



4. GETONIA, Roxb. 



1. G Floribunda, Roxb. Cor. PI i, t. 87 ; Fl Ind. ii, p 428.— 

 A climbing shrub, with opposite short-petioled leaves, resinous 

 dotted beneath, the young ones tomentose ; panicles of greenish- 

 white flowers, erect; fruit small, drupaceous, dry, ovate-oblong, 

 between round and pentagonal. Extremely common in tlie 

 Concan and Ghauts, not found in Ceylon. Native name " Wook- 

 sey" or " Bagoolee." 



5. TERMINALIA, Linn. 



1. T Belerica, Roxb. Cor. PI t. 198; Fl Ind. ii, p 431.— A. 

 large handsome tree ; leaves collected about the extremities of the 

 branchlets, large, long-petioled obovate-obtuse or shortly acumi-- 

 nated, quite entire, generally smooth ; spikes of small yellowish- 

 green ; flowers axillary sohtary, almost as long as the leaves ; drupe 

 small, roundish, covered with a grey silky down. Native name 

 " Bherda." 



2. T Chebula, Retz. Obs. v, p 31. — A large tree with shortly- 

 petioled leaves, which are ovate or oblong, obtuse or cordate at the 

 base, when young clothed with silky hairs ; petiole with a pair of 

 glands at the apex ; spikes terminal, often panicled ; drupe oval, 

 about 1 1 inch long. This is the Heerda tree, of which the fruit is 

 an article of commerce, for the large quantity of tannin which it 

 contains. The fruit of T citrina is sometimes imported into Bom- 

 bay from the North- Western Provinces, and is highly valued for 

 some imaginary properties. 



3. T Glabra, W. and A. Prod. Var. tomentosa, Roxb. — An 

 erect-growing tree of middling size ; leaves linear oblong obtuse, 

 somewhat cordate at the base, crenulate, with turbinate glands on 

 the midrib; drupes ovoid, coriaceous, winged. The Ainee tree, 

 much valued and in great demand for a variety of purposes. Com- 

 mon in the jungles at the foot of the Ghauts, and near the Ghauts 

 in the upper country. 



4. T Arjuna, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 438. — A tree with smooth bark 



