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MERRILL. 
KEY TO THE GENERA. 
Petals none, calyx-limb deciduous; trees 1. Terminalia 
Petals 4 or 5. 
Calyx-limb persistent; leaves alternate; trees of the mangrove swamps. 
2. Lumnitzera 
Calyx-limb deciduous ; scandent shrubs. 
Flowers small, the calyx-tube above the ovary less than 1 cm long. 
3. Gombreturn 
Flowers rather large, the calyx-tube above the ovary 4 to 6 cm long. 
4. Quisqualis 
1. TERMINALIA L inn. 
Fruit ovoid, oblong, or elliptic, sometimes compressed, never winged, but in some 
species keeled at the edges. § catappa. 
Fruit ellipsoid, strongly compressed and keeled, about 5 cm long.... 1. T. catappa 
Fruit oblong, very slightly compressed and keeled, about 10 cm long. 
2. T. magarapali 
Fruit slightly compressed, hardly keeled. 1.5 cm long or less; leaves glandular- 
punctate 3. T. edulis 
Fruit not at all compressed or keeled. 
Inflorescence of paniculate spikes 4. T. comintana 
Inflorescence of simple spikes; leaves glandular-punctate and with glands in 
the axils of the nerves; petioles usually with from 1 to 3 glands. 
Spikes rather strongly pubescent: leaves 10 to IS cm long; fruits ellipsoid 
or ovoid, not or very obscurely apiculate, about 5 cm long. 
5. T. odcarpa 
Spikes glabrous; leaves 7 to 12 cm long; fruits oblong-ovoid and strongly 
apiculate or ovoid and scarcely apiculate, 4 cm long or less. 
Petioles and midribs usually somewhat pubescent, the former with 3—1, 
or no glands near the apex; fruits less than 2.5 cm long. 
6. T. pellucida 
Leaves entirely glabrous, very strongly shining and usually dark-brown 
when dry, the petioles usually with two glands at about the middle; 
fruits about 4 cm long, strongly apiculate 7. T. nitens 
Fruit elliptic or narrowly elliptic, its edges produced into two broad, coriaceous 
wings. § BIALATA. 
Inflorescence, young branches, petioles and under surfaces of the leaves softly 
ferruginous-pubescent ; fruit, including the wings, 6 cm wide..- 8. T. blancoi 
Leaves glabrous beneath 9. T. caJamansanai 
Fruit equally or subequallv 2-3-4-winged, the wings less than 5 mm wide ; leaves 
ovate-elliptic to orbicular-elliptic; spikes panicled 10. T.polyantha 
Fruit equally 4-winged, the wings submembranaceous, 1 to 1.3 cm wide; leaves 
oblong-obovate to elliptic-obovate, 15 to 25 cm long 11. T. quadrialata 
1. Terminalia catappa Linn. Mant. (1771) 519; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 
(1878) 444; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 80; Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 
17 (1904) 35. 
T. latifolia Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 376, non Sw. 
T. mauritiana Blanco 1. c. ed. 2 (1845) 264. ed. 3, 2: 126. non Lam. 
Throughout the Philippines at low altitudes, especially near the sea, and 
somewhat cultivated as a shade tree. India to Malaya and Polynesia; planted in 
most tropical countries. 
