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L. C0MBRETACBJ5. 
[Terminalia . 
Catappa, and even between that and Myrobalanus, the acute angles of the fruit of T. melunocarpa 
almost pass into the wings of Catappa. The section Pentaptera, with 4 or 5 wings to the fruit, 
is as yet unknown in Australia. Among the following species, several are only known from very 
imperfect specimens, and may henceforth require much correction in their circumscription, 
although I do not think that they will be much reduced in number.— Benth. 
Sect. I. Catappa. — Fruit with 2 longitudinal membranous or coriaceous wings, or rarely, in 
the first 3 species, with a third narrow wing or prominent nerve. 
Fruit, including the wings, much broader than long. 
Fruit, including the wings, three times as broad as long ; wings quite 
distinct. Leaves velvety-pubescent underneath 1.2’. platyptera. 
Fruit, including the wings, not twice as broad as long ; wings often 
confluent above and below. Leaves nearly glabrous. Spike 
slender, interrupted. 
Leaves obovate, much reticulate. Fruit-wings scarcely confluent . 2. T. volucris. 
Leaves cuneate-oblong, much reticulate. Fruit-wings shortly 
confluent 3. T. oblongata. 
Fruit, including the wings, rather longer than broad and quite sur- 
rounded by the confluent wings. 
Leaves lanceolate or oblong, silky-pubescent. Spikes elongated, dense. 
Fruits under Jin. long 4. T. bursarina. 
Leaves lanceolate or oblong, mostly silky-pubescent. Spikes short, 
dense. Fruits j to above lin. long 5. T. circumalata. 
Fruit orbicular, quite surrounded by a narrow wing. Leaves obovate, 
much reticulate, glabrous. Spikes slender 6. T. Thozetii. 
Fruits 1 to 2in. long, ellipsoid, slightly compressed so as to show two 
ridges. Leaves on very short petiole, obovate from a cordate but very 
narrow base. Spikes solitary, axillary 7. T. Catappa, 
Sect. II. Myrobalanus (from the Greek muron, ointment, and balanos, any glandular 
fruit). — Fruit globular or more frequently ovoid, terete or slightly compressed, or surrounded by 
a prominent acute angle, but not distinctly winged. 
(There is no difference whatever in inflorescence or flowers in the two sections, and no constant 
one in foliage, although in general there is a greater tendency to dry black in Myrobalanus 
than in Catappa, and the primary veins diverging from the midrib are more prominent, parallel, 
and distinct. — Benth.) 
Leaves very obtuse, usually broad. Flowers rather small. Stamens not 
above 3 lines long. 
Leaves quite glabrous, large, narrowed into a short petiole. 
Calyx-tube white, with appressed hairs. Drupe glabrous, sur- 
rounded by a very prominent angle 8. T. melanocarpa. 
Calyx-tube quite glabrous. Drupe ovoid, without any angle . . . 9. T. Muclleri. 
Leaves loosely tomentose-pubescent, at least underneath. 
Drupe ovoid, glabrous 10. T. porphyrocarpa. 
Drupe ovoid or oblong, often acuminate, tomentose 11. T. platyphylla. 
Leaves mostly shortly acuminate. Flowers rather small. Stamens not 
above 3 lines long. 
Leaves obovate, cuneate at the base, on short petioles. Flowers small. 
Stamens very short, yellow. Fruit silky, slightly compressed, with 
angular margins 12. T. sericocarpa. 
Leaves ovate, three or four times as long as the petiole, the pellucid 
dots very conspicuous under a lens 13. T. microcarpa. 
Leaves narrow, obtuse. Flowers large. Stamens 5 to 6 lines long . . 14. T. grandiflora. 
1. T. platyptera (broad-winged), F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 151 ; Benth. FI. Austr. 
ii. 498. A tree, the young branches and petioles hoary-pubescent or almost 
velvety. Leaves crowded at the ends of the flowering branches, obovate or 
obovate- oblong, very obtuse, 1J to 2J-in. long, on a rather long petiole, 
velvety-pubescent on both sides when young, at length nearly glabrous 
above, the reticulate veins prominent. Spikes tomentose, slender, interrupted, 
exceeding the leaves. Calyx softly tomentose inside and out, the adnate tube 
about as long as the broad campanulate limb ; lobes short and broad. Filaments 
