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large or moderate sized, often subdivided. Med. rays both very brond 

 aad fine, numerous fine between each pair of broad rays. Weighs 

 about 45 lbs. to the cub. ft. Bars of soft tissue and closed pores 

 numerous and close between the broad rays. The fruit is globose, 

 flattened and crowned with the calyx. Epicarp red, pulpy. Seeds 

 1-2, enclosed in a membranous sac and attached ventrally to it, narrow, 

 liorse-shoe shaped ; episperm thin, brown, very rugose ; albumen white, 

 copious embryo green, slender curved, (usually 2 seeds in each fruit). 



Ordkr 40. COMBRETACEiE. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, sub-opposite or opposite, 

 petiolate, entire. Flowers bracteate, usually bisexual, spikate or 

 racemose, the racemes often panicled. Calyx- tube adnata to the 

 ovary, limb 4-5 divided. Petals 4-5 or 0. Stamens 4-5 or twice as 

 many, inserted on the calyx. Ovary inferior, 1 -celled ; style sim- 

 ple, stigma usually simple ; ovules 1-7, pendulous from the apex of 

 the cell. Fruit 1-celled, 1-seeded, often winged, crowned by the 

 enlarged caljx in Caii/copfens, and Gyroca7'ptis ; cotyledons oonvolute 

 or plano-convex ; seeds exalbuminous. 



Flowers racemose or capitate. Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. 

 Petals 0. Calyx-limb deciduous or accrescent. 



Flowers spiked. Calyx-limb deciduous ... 1. Teeminalia. 



Flowers spiked. Calyx-limb accrescent ... 2, Caltcopteris. 



Flowprs capitate. Calyx-limb deciduous ... 3, Ano&eissus. 



Petals 4-5. 



Tree. 



Leaves alternate. Calyx -limb persistent ... 4. Lumnitzera. 

 Climbing shrubs. 



Calyx-tube short ... ... ... 5. Comrretum. 



Calyx-tube long, prodnced beyond ovary ... 6. QtriSQFALis. 

 Flowers cymose. Anthers opening by lateral valves ... 7. GtYROCARPUS. 



TERMINALIA, Linn, 

 Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbers. Leaves entire, petiolate, 

 without stipules. Flowers usually bisexual, bracteolate. Calyx- 

 tule adnate to the ovary; limb 4-5 cleft, segments valvate. Petals 

 4-5 or 0. Stamens, 4-5 or 8-10^ on the calyx. Ovary inferior 

 1-celled ; ovules 2-3, pendulous from the apex of the cell ; style 

 ■simple, stigma usually simple. Fruit ovoid, angular or winged, 

 usually indehiscent 



Fruit not winged, ovoid, obovoid or globose. 



Fruit globular, tomentose ... ... ... 1, T, bet erica. 



Fruit ellipsoid or ovoid, glabrous, obscurely ridged 



when dry ... ... ... .,. 2. Chehula, 



Frr.it with 3-7 longitudinal wings. 

 Wings of fruit subequal. 

 Bark whit >, smooth. Fruit with 6-7, narrow, sub- 

 eq:al wings .. ... ... ... 3. T, Arjuna, 



Bark black, rough. Fruit with 5 subequal, broad 



wings ... ... ... ... 4. 21 tomentosa. 



Wings of fruit unequal. 



Fruit 3-wingcd, wings 1 large ?.nd 2 small ... 5. T. pauioulata^ 



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