TEEMINALIA ARJUNA. (Nat. ord, Combretawa.) 



lor Gen, Char, see under " Terminalia tomentosa." 



TERMINALIA ArJUNA. (Roxb.) A very large tree, bark smo oth whitish or green, leaves sub-opposite linear-oblong, 

 with au unequal obtuse or cordate base smooth on both sides, crenulate on the margin, acute or retuse at the apex ; 6-9 inches long by 

 1J to 2 broad, furnished with two sessile glands at the base of the leaf just above the petiole, generally only visible when looking at the 

 underside, but sometimes visible above ; petioles up to half an inch long, spikes terminal panicled, calyx very hairy inside round the ovary 

 and furnished with some sessile glands, stamens ten, the five opposite the sinuses inserted on the calyx above the base, the five opposite 

 the teeth inserted at the base, style subulate stigma small, drupe ovate thick with five very hard thick rigid longitudinal wings and 

 with the apex produced into a furrowed truucated point. — Peutaptera Arjuna and P. angustifolia, Roxb. FL lad. ii. p. 437 and 435 ; — 

 Terminalia Berryi, W. A. Prod. 314. 



I cannot distinguish between Terminalia Arjuna and Berryi: the description and figure here given are taken from specimens 

 collected in Tinnevelly. 



A gigantic tree common throughout the Madras Presidency, growing near the banks of rivers,, up to. an elevation of 3,500 or 4,000 

 feel; it is largely plante}, as an avenue tree,pxrliiularly in the Tin ieve 7 ly district, where it attuns an immense girth and is often fu> nished with 

 very large buttresses. It is.als) fjuid in Bmjal, Bmbay an I Birmih ;it U cdlel Kohxaid Janla in Hindoostanl, and Yelld Mar da and 

 Yelld matti in Tamil, ani Arjoon in Bombay, and is generally called tht White M Utiby Eii'opeats. The wool is used for building and various 

 purposes, and boats are often miiefroni it ; it is inferior to the Terminalia tomentos i, but a valuable timber ; it flowers in Apvil a id May, and 



the seeds ripen toioards the close of the r> 



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