5GG 
L. COMBRETACEiE. 
[Terminalia. 
allied species. Drupe, according to F. v. Mueller, 2 or rarely 3-winged, rather 
longer than broad, 2i- to 4 lines long, 3-angled, the one face larger than the other, 
and furnished in the centre with a prominent blunt spur. 
Hab.: Gulf of Carpentaria, F. v. Mueller ; Gulf country, Frank Hann. 
Wood dark-coloured, close-grained, hard and prettily marked ; useful for cabinet work. — 
Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. l(51a. 
5. T. circumalata (winged all round), F. v. il/. Fragm. iii. 91 ; Benth. FI. 
Austr. ii. 499. Closely allied to T. pterocarpa, with the same flowers and fruit, 
and perhaps a narrow-leaved variety with the foliage and inflorescence more or 
less clothed with a soft silky pubescence. Leaves oblong-cuneate or elliptical, 
1 to 2 or sometimes nearly 3in. long, with very oblique primary veins, the 
reticulate veinlets few and scarcely prominent. Flowers very silky, crowded in 
short pedunculate spikes. Fruits including the wings, obovate, f to above lin. 
long, the drupe entirely surrounded by a continuous wing. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. May belong to T. circumalata, but are 
not in fruit. — Bentli. 
G. T. Thozetii (after M. A. Thozet), Bentli. FI. Austr. ii. 500. Said 
to resemble T. volucris in foliage, except that it is perfectly glabrous 
(sometimes the leaves are velvety on the under side, F. v. M. Fragm. 
ix. 160), and the fruit is very different. Leaves narrow- obovate, crowded 
at the ends of the branches, 2 to 3in. long, reticulate as in T. volucris. 
Flowers not seen. Fruiting-spikes slender, glabrous. Fruits quite smooth and 
glabrous, nearly orbicular, about Ain. diameter including the two narrow confluent 
wings, which completely encircle the drupe. They may not, however, be perfectly 
ripe in the specimen. 
Hab.: Rockhampton, Thozet. 
7. T. Catappa (its Molucca name), Linn. “ Tom-min,” Cooktown, Both. 
Country Almond. A tree of about 80ft., the branches in horizontal whorls. 
Leaves alternate, clustered at the ends of the branches, on very short petioles, 
obovate from a cordate but very narrow base, 6 to Sin. long, deciduous, usually 
softly hairy when young, sometimes becoming glabrous in age, with 2-glandular 
depressions near the base of the midrib on the under side, these sometimes 
wanting ; petiole 3 to 9 lines long. Spikes solitary, axillary, simple, grey or rusty 
tomentose or pilose, the upper flowers male, the lower hermaphrodite. Bracts 
minute. Calyx-teeth glabrous, or nearly so, within and without. Young ovary 
glabrous or hairy. Fruit yellow, ellipsoid, slightly compressed so as to show two 
ridges, 1 to 2in. long, epicarp fleshy.— Wight Ic. 172; Bot. Mag. 3004; Bedd. 
FI. Sylv. t. 18 ; Catappa domestica, litorea, and syloestris, Rumph. Herb. Amboin. 
i. t. 68 ; Badamia Commersonii, Gfertn. Fruct. ii. 97 ; Rheede Hort. Mai. iv. t. 3, 4. 
Hab.: From Rockingham Bay northwards on the coast; abundant on the islands of Torres 
Straits. 
The wood of the Queensland tree I have not had worked up. J. S. Gamble, however, in 
Manual of Indian Timbers described it as red, with a lighter-coloured sapwood, hard, and says 
that the kernels of the nuts are eaten as dessert, and the bark and leaves give a black dye. It is 
one of the trees on the leaves of which the “ Tasar” or “ Katkura” silkworm (Anthercea Pctphia) 
is fed. 
8. T. melanocarpa (black fruit), F. v. M. Fragm. iii. 92; Benth. FI. 
Austr. ii. 500. A tree, usually glabrous, except the silky-white young buds 
and the flowers. Leaves obovate, very obtuse or rarely obscurely and very 
obtusely acuminate, 3 to 6 or even bin. long and sometimes above Gin. broad, 
narrowed into a short petiole, coriaceous, the primary veins prominent under- 
neath and rather distant, transversely reticulate between them. Spikes loose, 
about as long as the leaves, the rbachis nearly glabrous. Flowers numerous but 
