TERMINALIA PANICULATA. (Nat. ord. Combretaeese.) 



For Gen. Char. 3ee under " Terminalia tomentosa." 



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J-ERMINALIA PANICULATA. (Roxb.) A fine large timber tree, branches diverging, leaves nearly opposite oblong to 

 linear oblong with a more or less cordate base, acute or obtuse at the apex, entire, coriaceous, rugose above glabrous or rarely 

 pubescent, with 2 sessile umbilicate glands beneath near the base, or glandless, spikes terminal forming a compound panicle, fruit with 

 one large and two small wings. W. A. Prod. p. 315 ; — Pentaptera paniculata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 442. 



A valuable timber tree common in most of the forests on the western side of the Madras Presidency, up to an elevation of 2,000 or 

 3,000/ee£, and also found in Bombay and Bengal, caVed Marwa in South Canara, Poo Mardd and Pillah Murdd, in the Anamallays and Malabar. 

 Dr. Roxburgh gives Pe Karkai as the Tamil name, and Neemeeri as Teligoo, but I never met with any one who fame either of these names, It is 

 often called simply Matti or Mardah, the same name given to Terminalia tomentosa/ it is known by the name of Keerijul in the South Concan, 

 where it is common along the foot of the Ghats. The timber is very good, but not equal to that of Terminalia tomentosa ; it is said to be 

 improved by being kept under water. The bark contains tannin. The tree As not found in Ceylon, nor is it recorded from Birmah ; the tree 

 grows in the Botanical Gardens in Calcutta, where seedlings attained a height of 20 feet with a circumference of 18 inches in eight years ; it has 

 been introduced into our plantations at Nellumbur, and grows well from seed. 



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