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v Ter minalia- Bellerica. Roxb ; Fl. Bz. Ind. i.c. 445 

 var I tijpica = T. Bellerica, Bedd. 

 var II Bellerica, Roxb? 

 var III laurinoides, Miq. 



Habitat. A large, deciduous tree, commoo in the plains 

 and lower-hills throughout India, with the exception of 

 the arid tracts to the West, and extending to Ceylon and 

 Malacca. ; var. Bellerica is met with in the Circers also in 

 Malaya, if T. microcarpa Den., be the same species; while 

 var. laurinoides is found in Merqui, Ceylon, Java and Malaya. 



Dye and Tan — The fruit is one of those exported 

 from India under the name of myrabalans, and is largely 

 employed in India for dyeing and tanning. 



Two kinds are said to be met with, one nearly globular \ to 

 | inch indiameter, the other ovate and much larger . . . . 



It may be used alone, in which case it gives a yellow- 

 ish or brownish-yellow colour to the cloth, or, with various 

 other dye stuffs to produce dark-brown and black 



The drape is also used as a mordant, instead of harra 

 (Term. Chebula) in dyeing with maddee or manjit x ) 



Chemical Composition-analyses of the fruit of this, as 

 of other myrabalans, give very varying resultsand strongly 

 indicate the necessity of a thorough investigation into 

 the effects of: climate, soü and age of the fruit, on its 

 tanning value .... 



Oil. The seeds yield a fatty oil to the extent of about 

 30.44 percent which on standing separates into two 

 portions, the one fluid of a pale-green-colour, and the other 

 flocculent, white-semi-solid, with the consistence of ghi 2 ). . . . 



The fruit is used for making country ink, and, bij the 

 Bhils, to poison fish 



Terminalia Chebula Retz The chebulic or black myra- 

 bolan, syn. T. reticulata Roth., T. Aruta, Ham; Myrobalanus 



1 ) Rubia cordifoHa. 



2) Geiten-boter. 



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