472 NOTES ON MYROBALANS. 



texture, and from half-an-inch to an inch and a half in diameter in one 

 direction, and about one-fourth of that diameter in the other direction, 

 with these galls and alum a durable yellow is dyed in India. 



Mature myrabolans are called Haritika in Sanscrit, whilst in Hin- 

 .dustani they are known as Hur, Harhara, Hulda, and Hura. In many 

 districts they have also their local names, as Huritukee in Bengal, Heerda 

 oxHuldali in the Deccan, Arulay in Mysore, Kodorka amongst the Malays, 

 Kadukai of the Tamuls, Karakaia and Seingi-tige of the Telugos, Ara- 

 loo in Ceylon, Kayoo-bin in Pegu, and Alilile or Halileh in Arabia and 

 Persia. 



Myrabolans, the produce of another species of Terminalia (T. 

 lellerica) have during the past few years found their way into the 

 English market under different names, but generally as " Bedda-nuts." 

 Their obovate form will at once distinguish them from the true myra- 

 bolan. Like the varieties already named, these are also an Indian pro- 

 duct, and are much employed by the natives on account of their astrin- 

 gency both in manufactures and medicine. The kernels yield a larger 

 quantity of oil than those of the Chebulic myrabolan which is em- 

 ployed for strengthening the hair. 



Beference to the ' Technologist,' vol. ii., pp. 233, will furnish the 

 relative values of the Chebulic myrabolan, mature and immature, and 

 the Belleric myrabolan, as tanning substances, viz. : — 



Chebulic Myrobalan (mature) .... 18'230 

 „ „ (immature) under the name 



ofKiritochee 35-280 



Belleric Myrobalan 9-086 



Other notes by the Editor on " The Myrobalans of Commerce " will 

 be found in the same volume, p. 184, from which it would appear that 

 he has met with the fruits of T. augnstifolia in commerce ; but I think 

 that, on renewed examination, he will confess himself to have been 

 misled by the different appearances of the fruits of T. chebula, when 

 collected and dried at earlier stages of growth. 



