TERMINALIA CATAPPA. (Nat. ord. Combretacese.) 



For Gen. Char, see under " T. tomentosa." 



J-EKMINALIA OATAPPA. (Willd.) A large tree, branches horizontal verticelled, bark smooth, of a dull olive color 

 whilst young, leaves about the extremities of the branches glabrous subsessile obovate crenate and attenuated, but at the same time 

 slightly cordate at the base ; a little repand with a large depressed gland beneath on each side of the midrib near the base, from 6 to 12 

 inches long, racemes axillary solitary simple shorter than the leaves, flowers numerous, small dull whitish, male most numerous above the 

 hermathrodite, bracts minute deciduous, drupe oval compressed smooth with elevated navicular margins, convex on both sides, yellowish 

 when ripe, nut oblong with a rough surface. Koxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 430 ; — W. A. Prod. p. 3,13 ; — Adamaram, Rheede Mai. iv. t. 3, 4. 



A highly ornamento.1 tree much planted throughout the Presidency, and met with in some of our forests, but doubtfully indigenous • it is 

 in flower and jruii throughout the year ; it is called the Indian Almond tree by Europeans, in Hindustani, Badam or Junglibadam, and in 

 Malabar Nat vadom . "It makes a good avenue tree, and is well worthy of extended cultivation. The wood is light but tolerably durable,and is 'used 

 for vavious purposes, and the levers of Pakottahs are often made of it; the, kernels of the nuts are eaten and are very palatable; the oil expressed 

 from the seeds is very like Almond oil, and the oil cake is used to feed pigs ; the bark and leaves yield a black pigment vjith which the natives* 

 color their teeth and make into Indian ink ; the juice oj the leaves and milk of the nut are used medicinally; the tussa silk-worms feed on the 

 leaves. 



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