L. COMBEETACEJ] 307 



tangential bands, of wood parpncliyma. Several species, climbers as well as treeb, 

 have btrands of pblopm in tbe wood. As far as known, the structure of tlie climbing 

 species is normal, bnt tbey demand further study. 



A. Fl. in spikes, cal^'x-limb deciduous. 



Petals 0. Large trees, 1. alternate or subopposite . 1. Terminalia. 

 Petals 4 or 5, except in Comhrefum apetahim. 



Climbing bhrubb or underslirubs, 1. opposite, 



sometimeb wliorled 2. Combretum. 



Climbers, 1. opposite, calyx-tube slender, long . 3. Quisqualis. 



B. Fl. in spikes, calyx-limb perbistent. 



A rambling shrub, rubty pubescent, 1. opposite . 4. Calycopteris. 

 Trees or shrubs, wholly glabrous, 1. alternate, thick, 



fleshy 5, Lumnitzeea. 



G. PL in globose heads, fr. small, flat, imbricated . . 6. ANOisiEissus. 



Two genera, IlUtjera and Gi/rocarjms, in Gen. PL i. 689 included ander Comhreiacem 

 (Sub-order Gyrocarpem) with winged fruit, but entirely different in other respects, will 

 be included under Meniandlaceie. 



1. TERMINALIA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 443. 



Large trees, 1. alternate or nearly opposite. FL sessile, small, greenish or 

 wliite, generally in long spikes. Calyx-tube campanulate, constricted above 

 the ovary, as a rule densely woolly within, deciduous, limb 5-toothed, petals 0. 

 Stamens 10, in two rows. Seed included in a coriaceous or osseous endocarp, 

 cotyledons convolute. Species 105, tropics of both hemisplieres. 



A. Fr. more or less fleshy, often angled, not winged, 

 {a) Spikes simple (see also T, pallida). 



1. T. Catappa, Linn. ; Wight Ic. t. 172 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 18; King in 

 Journ. As. Soo. Bengal QQ (1898), 331.— Syn. T. procera^ Roxb. Cor. PL t. 224; 

 Kurz F. FL i. 454. The Indian Almond tree. 



A tall tree, branches whorled, stem often buttressed. L. clustered at the 

 ends of branchlets, glabrous, petiole and midrib more or less hairy, obovate, 

 from a narrow cordate base, 6-10 in. long, petiole sLort, stout and channelled. 

 FL white, in slender axillary spikes, shorter than L, ^ at the top, ^ below. 

 Drupe glabrous, ellipsoid, somewhat compressed, keeled all round, 2 in. long, 

 pericarp fibrous and fleshy, endocarp hard, oil expressed from the seeds. 



Beach forests of the Andamans and the Malay Peninsula. Fl. Feb.-May. A widely 

 spread literal species within the tropics. Cultivated throughout trojjical India. The 

 1. turn deep red in autumn before falling. The seeds are eaten. 



2. T. belerica,* Roxb. Cor. PL t. 198; Wight 111, t. 91 ; Bedd. PL Sylv. 

 1. 19 ; Brand is F. FL 222. Yern. Bahera, Bhaira^ Hind. ; Balra^ Beheda, Mar. ; 

 Tdre^ Kan.; Tandi^ Thandra, Tel. ; Tani, TJiani^ Tam. ; Thitsein^ Burm. 



A large deciduous ti'ee, bark bluish-grey, wood hard, yellowish -grey, no 

 heartwood. Branchlets, ovary and outside of calyx with soft rust-coloui^ed 

 pubescence. L. clustered at the ends of branchlets, minutely puberulous when 

 young, glabrous when full grown, elliptic or obovate-elliptic from an acute 

 base, blade 4-9, petiole 1|"3 m. long, FL greenish-yellow, with strong 

 offensive smell, ^ and o mixed. Spikes simple, on the current yearns shoots, 

 in the axils of L or of fallen L, bracts linear, early caducous. Inside of calyx 

 woolly with long brown hairs. Fruit ovoid, grey, velvety, 1 in. long, pericarp 

 dry. 



Subhimalayan tract from near the Indus eastwards. Common throughout India and 



* In Cor. Plants Eoxburgh writes heUerica, in FL Ind. ii. 431, helerlca. Poxb. 

 describes and figures two glands on top of petiole, which do not exist on the speci- 

 mens examined by me, nor have they been found by others. 



