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FOXWORTHY. 
Terminalia. The woods of the Pentaptera and Chuncaa sections are 
dark-colored, rather like, but darker and rougher than walnut; those of 
the Catappa section are lighter in' color, but have occasionally an irregular 
dark heartwood. In the former class the pores are larger and the texture 
rather more open, but in this respect T. belerica comes between the two. 
In all, the pores are in patches or single, and these patches are more or 
less concentrically confluent, and in all the pith-rays are fine, numerous, 
and uniform. The wood of T. oliveri resembles that of T. chebula in the 
Catappa section, but has SRialler pores. 
SUBGENUS 1, CATAPPA. 
Terminalia catappa L. “The Indian almond;” “Malabar almond;” talisai 
(Guam); talisay, dalisai (Phil.); talie (Samoa); kaorika, kauarika (Rara- 
tonga) ; tavola (Fiji); kamani (Hawaii); almendro (Spanish America); bada- 
mier (French); saori (Solomon Islands); tipop, tipapop (Ponape, Caroline 
Islands ) ; badam ( Beng. ) ; kottamba ( Cing. ) ; katapang ( Malay ) . 
Madagascar, British India and Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago to 
New Guinea and Polynesia ; cultivated in all the tropics. 
Wood red, with lighter-colored sapwood, hard. Pores moderate-sized, 
scantjq joined by wavy, short, concentric bands of wood parenchyma. 
Pith-rays fine. Troughs, carts, posts, planks, etc. 
Gamb. 337; Safford 385; Watt Diet. 6:22; Phil. Woods 393; Ridl. 173; 
K. & V. 9:27; Van Eed. 129. 
Terminalia belerica Roxb. Behara (Hind.) ; boliera (Beng.) ; tani (Tam.) ; 
bhlh ( Cing. ) ; thitsein ( Burm. ) . 
British India, Ceylon, Burma, Malacca. 
Wood yellowish-gray, hard, no heartwood, not durable, readily attacked 
by insects ; seasonal rings indistinct. Pores very scanty, large, frequently 
divided, joined by irregular, wavy, concentric bands of wood parenchyma. 
Fine, uniform and equidistant pith-rays distinctly visible in the darker 
and harder portions between the bands, and on radial section, where, too, 
the pores are prominent. Planking, packing-cases, canoes, and in north- 
west India for house building after it has been steeped in water, which 
renders it more durable. 
Gamb. 337, tab. VIII, fig. 5; Nord. VIII; Watt Diet. 6 4 :22; Van Eed. 129; 
K. & V. 9:17-20. 
Terminalia chebula Retz. Harra (Hind.). 
British India and Ceylon to Malaya. 
Wood very hard, brownish-gray with a greenish or yellowish tinge, 
with an irregular small dark-purple heartwood, close-grained, fairly 
durable. Seasonal rings indistinct. Pores small and moderate-sized, 
often subdivided, singly or in groups surrounded by small patches of 
wood parenchyma which are slightly confluent into more or less con- 
centrically arranged bands. Pith-rays very fine, uniform, equidistant, 
