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fmooth on both fides, and heart-fliaped at the bafe." — Tliis 

 laft charafter feems to us to exift in T. Calappa. 



4. T. latifolia. Broad wedge-leaved Tcrminalia. Swartz. 

 Ind. Occ. 747. Willd. n. 4. (Arbor maxima, forti! pru- 

 nifera, cortice cannabino, foho longlflimo latilTimoquc ; 

 Sloiae- Hid. v. 2. 130.) — Leaves obovate, obtiifc, fomc- 

 what ferrated, fmooth 011 both fides, deftitute of glands at 

 the bafc : their midrib dovtfny beneath Native of moun- 

 tainous woods in the north part of Jamaica. A tall, ilout, 

 umbrageous t7-ec, rifing to the height of one hundred feet, or 

 more, with horizontal branches, downy when young. Leaves 

 crowded about the ends of the branches, on fmooth ftalks, 

 thickifh, fcarcely pointed, bluntly ferrated, or nearly entire, 

 tapering (not dilated or heart-ihaped) at the bafe. Flowers 

 fmall, whitidi or yellowilh, in long axillary clufters ; the 

 upper ones chiefly male. Fruit pulpy, greeni(h-red, fweet, 

 bu it-i'haped, larger than a peach, eaten chiefly by hogs. 

 Il- kernel taftes like an almond. The wood is valuable for 

 its hardnefs. The inhabitants of Jamaica know this fpecies 

 by the name of Broad-leaf Tree. Siuartz. 



5.' T. Chebula. Oval-leaved Terminalia. Retz. Obf. 

 fafc. 5- 31. Willd. n. 5. Ait. 11. 3. Roxb. Coromand. 

 V. 2. 52. t. 197. ( My robalanus Chebula ; Gjertn. v. 2.91. 

 t. 97.) — Leaves obovate-oblong, obtufe, entire, oppofite, 

 fmooth on both hdes ; filky when young. Footllalks with 

 two glands near the top. Clufters terminal. — Native of 

 hills in the Eaft Indies. Retzius, who received his fpeci- 

 mens from Koenig, defcribes this tree as not more than three 

 or four times the height of a man, with no very widely 

 fpreading top. Our fpecimens, from Dr. Rottler, agree 

 with every particular of his defcription. The young leaves 

 ai-e beautifully filky. We find none of the marginal glands 

 reprefented by Roxburgh, nor are our leaves pointed, as in 

 hia plate. Thejlowers in both are yellow, in terminal, often 

 aggregate, cluilers. Dr. Roxburgh mentions the wood of 

 the tree he defcribes as hard and valuable, and the head as 

 evergreen, and widely fpreading. The rind of its fruit is 

 much ufed by painters of chintz for drawing a permanent 

 outline, and by dyers to fix their colours. With fait of 

 tteel it makes an excellent ink. 



6. T. elliptica. Rounded-leaved Terminalia. WiUd. 

 n. 6. — " Leaves oblong-elhptical, bluntly rounded, enlii-e ; 

 flightly hairy beneath, with two glands at the bafe." — Native 

 of the Eaft Indies. The branches are round, brown ; downy 

 when young. Leaves two or three inches in length ; con- 

 ti-afted at the bafe ; very obtufe at the extremity, with a 

 flight point ; dark green and fmooth above ; pale, and be- 

 fprinkled with clofe-prctTed fcattered hairs, beneath ; furnifhed 

 at the bafe with two cup-(haped, fomewhat ftalked, glands. 

 Spikes terminal, panicled. IVilldenoiv. We have been in- 

 clined to fufpeA this might not be diilinft from the follow- 

 ing, but the injlorefcence does not agree, nor could Willde- 

 iiow furely have omitted to notice the great length of the 



Jootjlallis in T. Bellerica. 



7. T. Bellerica. Long-ftalked Terminalia. Roxb. Co- 

 rom. V- 2. 54. t. 198. (Myrobalanus Bellerica ; Breyn. Ic. 

 18. t. 4. Gaertn. v. 2. 90. t. 97. Tani ; Rheede Hort. 

 Malab. v. 4. 23. t. 10.) — Leaves obovate, wavy, fmooth. 

 Footftalks about half as long as the leaves, with two glands 

 at the top. Spikes axillary, folitary, hardly longer than 

 the footftalks. — Native of hills in the Eaft Indies. A 

 large tree, with a very widely fpreading head ; the wood is 

 white} but foft, and not durable. The bark, when wounded, 

 exudes a .copious infipid gum, Ijke gum arable, foluble in 

 water. The leaves are firm and fmooth, fix or feven inches 

 long when full-grown, but in the flowering feafon they fcem 

 Icarcely to exceed their footjlalks, which then meafure half 



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that length. Flowers fetid, dirty yellow, in copious axillary 

 fpikes, not clufters. Fruit the fize of a nutmeg ; its kernel 

 eatable, but reported to intoxicate if taken in any great 

 quantity. 



8. T. ntauriliana. Mauritius Terminalia. Lamarck 

 Diet. V. I. 349. Willd. 11. 7. (Badamia Commerfoni ; 

 Gsertn. v. 2. 90. t. 97 I Pamca guiancnfis ; Aubl. Guian. 

 V. 2. 946. t. 349 ?) — Leaves lanceolate, flightly crenatc, 

 tapering at each end, fmooth on both fides. Spikes 



axillary, the length of the leaves Native of the ifles of 



Mauritius and Bourbon, and probably of Madagafcar. Com- 

 merfon defcribes it as the largell and talleft tree of the two 

 former iflands. He took it tor a new genus, and named it 

 Refmaria, under which name, and that of lefaux benjoin, his 

 fpecimens are preferved in the Linnxan herbarium. The luood 

 is much efteemed for making canoes. The branches are 

 fwelled at the ends, where they bear ample tufts of leaves 

 three or four inches long, on downy ftalks, three-quarters of 

 an inch in length ; when full-grown both appear, by La- 

 marck's account, to be much larger. Flowers copious, in 

 fimple axiUary fpikes. Fruit an inch or inch and half long, 

 with a dilated compreflcd border, not altogether anfwcring 

 to Gsertner'g figure, which makes us doubt his fynonym. 

 He has formed his barbarous generic name, Badamia, out of 

 the French Badamier, which is fynonimous with Terminalia. 

 Aublet's plate of his Pamea greatly refembles our plant, and 

 our chief doubt arifes from their diftant places of growth. 

 That they are of the fame genus cannot be difputed. 



9. T. angujlifolia. Narrow-leaved Terminalia. Jacq. 

 Hort. Vind. v. 3. 51. t. 100. Willd. n. 8. Ait. n. 4. 

 (T. Benzoin ; Linn. Suppl. 434. Lamarck Dift. v. i. 

 349. Croton Benioe ; Linn. Mant. 297. Willd. Sp. PI. 

 V. 4. 533.) — Leaves linear-lanceolate, wavy, downy ou 



both fides Native of the Eaft Indies. Jacquin reports 



that feeds of this fpecies were fent him by Lemonnier, under 

 the French name of Bien-joint, from the ifle of Bourbon. 

 Hence he ingenioufly and fatisfaftorily conjeftures, that this 

 appellation, which alludes to the mode of growth of the 

 tree, may have been confounded with Benjoin or Benzoin, 

 the French word for gum Benjamin, or Benzoe, and thus 

 the faid gum was fuppofed to come from the plant before 

 us. (See Styrax.) T. angujlifolia has long been culti- 

 vated in our ftoves, but the flowers are unknown. Its man- 

 ner of branching is like T. Catappa, mauritiana, &c. nor 

 does it much differ from the laft named, except that the 

 leaves are narrower, often quite linear, and clothed, more or 

 lefs completely, with brown, rather rigid, hairs. Their 

 veins, rib, and margin are tinged with a blood-colour. The 



fruit appears to be fimilar to the laft. Liiinieus raifed a 

 plant from feed in the Upfal ftove, and remarked that the 

 feed-leaves were of a blood-red. The leaves of his fpecimen 

 hardly exceed a line in breadth. 



10. T. Vernix. Varnifli Terminaha. Lamarck Dift, 

 v. I. 350. Willd. n. 9. (Arbor vernicis ; Rumph. Am- 

 boin. V. 2. 259. t. 86.) — Leaves hnear-lanceolate, entire, 

 fmooth on botTi fides. — Native of the Molucca ifles. It is 

 prefuraed to belong to this genus from the imperfeft defcrip- 

 tion of Rumphius, and its evident refemblance to the two 

 laft fpecies. The leaves however are more difperfed, and of 

 larger dimenfions, being from nine to eleven inches long, ar.d 

 the breadth of three or four fingers, fo that they are fcarcely 

 to be termed /;n('«/--lanceolate. The rib is very prominent 

 beneath. Flowers yellow or whitifli, with red Jlamens, m 

 drooping clufters or fpikes. Fruit oblique and comprefled, 

 two inches broad. The nut exudes a large quantity of refjn, 

 foon turning brown, and a milky refinous fluid is lodged 

 under the bark of the tree, at firft of an acrid quality, but 



3 A hardening 



