Terminalia.] 
LVII. COMBRETACE/E. 
705 
3'25 in. wide; petioles '8 in. long. Spikes solitary axillary, 6 in. 
long, pubescent. Flowers '2 in. across, foetid. Calyx-tube elongate, 
clavate rusty-tomentose; teeth deltoid. Drupe ellipsoid, sub-acute, 
plano-convex 1-5 in. long. Hab. Malacca (Griffith and Maingay). 
Negri Sembilan, Pasir Panjang (Foxworthy). Native name: Jilawei. 
(4) T. phellocarpa King, l.c. 330. 
A stout spreading tree about 40 to 60 ft. tall and 2 to 3 ft. 
through. Leaves crowded at branch ends, obovate blunt, tapering 
to base, dark green, glabrous; nerves 4 to 6 pairs, 3 to 4 in. long, 
175 to 2 in. wide; petioles '8 in. long. Racemes produced with 
young leaves, red-woolly, 1-5 to 2 in. long. Flowers very small, 
■2 in. wide; buds conoid; pedicels short, thick, hairy. Bracts 
linear hairy. Sepals ovate acuminate, hairy both sides. Stamens 
10; filaments longer than sepals. Calyx-tube hairy. Fruit 
elliptic flattened, round at both ends with a terminal mammilla 
green ; pericarp thick spongy fibrous. Hab. Low country in damp 
ground in the south. Singapore, Tanglin; Bukit Mandai Road; 
Selitar. Malacca, Bukit Bruang (Derry). Native names: Mampelam 
Babi (Pig’s Mango); Pelawei. 
(5) T. Catappa Linn. Mantissa ii. 519; King, l.c. 331; Boi. 
Mag. t . 3004. 
A stout tree up to 80 or more ft. tall with large spreading 
branches. Leaves deciduous, obovate narrowed to a cordate base, 
glabrous; nerves 8 to 12 pairs, 6 to 9 in. long, 3*5 to 5*5 in. wide; 
petioles 35 in. long, broad. Spikes axillary, ‘6 in. long. Flowers 
*2 in. across. Calyx-tube conic, glabrous outside, woolly inside. 
Ovary glabrous. Drupe ellipsoid, compressed, green flushed pink, 
keeled all round; pericarp fleshy; endocarp woody, fibrous; 2 in. 
long, 1 ’25 in. wide. Hab. Common on sandy seacoasts, wild, but 
now planted or sporadic everywhere in villages and cultivated 
ground, and known as the Singapore almond. Native name: 
Ketapang. The tree sheds its leaves entirely and flowers after 
this. The withering red leaves make the tree very conspicuous. 
(6) T. subspathulata King, l.c. 332. 
A gigantic buttressed tree 150 ft. tall, 2 to 3 ft. through. Leaves 
crowded at branch-ends, thinly coriaceous, spathulate, glaucous 
beneath obtuse; nerves 8 pairs, elevate beneath, reticulations 
fine, conspicuous, 3-5 in. long, 1 to r6 in. wide near tip; petioles 
1*15 to 1*5 in. long. Spikes solitary, 33 in. long, puberulous. 
Flowers green, *15 in. long, upper ones male only, lower bisexual. 
Calyx-tube narrow, cylindric; teeth 5, broad. Fruit very broadly 
2-winged, 1*5 in. long, ‘2 in. wade, transversely rounded, oblong 
striate, pale yellow. Hab. Forests, Singapore, Botanic Gardens. 
Malacca, Sungei Hudang (Derry). Perak, Goping (Kunstler). 
Native name : Jilawei. 
(7) T. bialata Steud. Nomencl, ii. 668; King, l.c. 332. 
Tree 80 to 100 ft. tall. Leaves crowded at branch-ends, obovate 
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