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[Terminalia. 
obliquely acuminate, with a prominent angle, and shortly contracted at the base; in another of 
F. v. Mueller’s, they are straight, quite terete, oblong, rounded at both ends, but terminating 
abruptly in a narrow straight beak of about 2 lines. — Benth. 
Wood of a dark colour, close in grain, tough, hard, and prettily marked. — Bailey’s Cat. Ql 
I Foods No. 163b. 
Ripe fruit eaten. — Palmer l.c. 
12. T. sericocarpa (fruit silky), F. r. M. Fragm. ix. 159. A tall tree with 
light-coloured bark ; branchlets very thinly silky. Leaves obovate, cuneate at 
the base and decurrent upon the short petiole, 2 to 4in. long, 1 to 2in. broad, 
glabrous and shining on both sides. Spikes 2 to 8, interrupted. Flowers small, 
silky ; buds acute, apiculate. Calyx-lobes about 1 line long, flavescent inside, 
densely bearded at the base. Stamens yellowish, scarcely longer than the calyx- 
lobes. Style about 1 line long. Drupe small, ovate, about Ain. long, apiculate, 
slightly compressed, silky, the margins angular but not winged. Putamen 
tuberculose -rugose . 
Hab.: Many localities in tropical Queensland. 
Wood of a light-yellow, with a darker-coloured heartwood ; hard and tough ; would suit well 
for chair-making. — Bailey’s Cat. Ql. Woods No. 163. 
13. T. microcarpa (fruit small), Dene. Herb. Tim. Descr. 129 ; Benth. 
FI. Austr. ii. 502. Young shoots minutely pubescent. Leaves broadly 
ovate-elliptical, rarely slightly obovate, shortly and obtusely acuminate, 3 to 5in. 
long, uarrowed into a petiole of about lin., glabrous or slightly hoary underneath 
with a minute pubescence, thinly coriaceous, with distant primary veins and 
copious reticulations, the pellucid dots although small, yet more conspicuous than 
in most species. Spikes attaining the length of the leaves. Flowers numerous 
but not densely crowded. Calyx rusty outside with a minute tomentum, densely 
villous inside but not seen fully expanded. Drupe, according to Decaisne, olive- 
shaped, acuminate, glabrous. 
Hab.: Gulf country. 
Also in Timor. I have not seen the Australian specimens mentioned by Decaisne as having 
been gathered on the S. coast, probably from one of those mistakes in the labels which occur 
in so many instances in the Australian collections in the Paris Herbarium, owing in a great 
measure to the illegible handwriting and absurd orthography of the original labels of the 
gardener who accompanied Baudin’s Expedition. The above description is taken from a Timor 
specimen communicated by Decaisne The species may poss bly prove to be a variety of T. 
Belerica, Roxb., which extends over E. India and the Archipelago. The leaves are ovate, as 
stated in Decaisne’s description, rather than obovate, as they are said to be by some mistake in 
the diagnosis. — Benth. 
14. T. grandiflora (flowers large), Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 503. A small tree ; 
branches and foliage silky or the leaves at length glabrous. Leaves linear-oblong 
or cuneate, obtuse or retuse, 1A to 3in. long, coriaceous, very obliquely veined and 
reticulate, narrowed into a short petiole. Spikes usually exceeding the leaves, 
with flowers much larger than in any other Tenninalia. Buds acuminate. 
Calyx-tube or ovary above 2 lines long, and the limb of the calyx as 
much in diameter, the lobes acuminate. Stamens 5 to G lines long. Style Ain. 
long. Drupe nearly globular, about lin. long, tapering into a conical beak of 
about Jin., smooth and glabrous, without wings or angles. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria and Arnhem S. Bay, R. Broicn. 
There are two forms, one with long narrow leaves, quite glabrous except when very young, the 
spikes glabrous or slightly silky, and the stamens fully ^in. long ; the other much more silky, 
the leaves broader, shorter and more cuneate, and the silky flowers rather, but not much, 
smaller. — Benth. 
