. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Terminal ia] L. COMBRETAGE^ 311 its 1. and is one of the latest trees to come out m fresli leaf. T. macrocarpa, is a variety in tlie Eng forests of Burma witli large fr., up to 2| in. across. 13. T. Arjuna, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 28 : Brandis F. FL 224—Syn. T, glabra^ W. et Arn., Trinien Handb. Cevlon 11. 160; Pnifaptera Arjiina^ Roxb. Vera. ArjUna, Kauri, Kohcij Hind. Guzerat: Dlicnda IIolemattL Had}\ Kan. Thella inadcU^ Tel. large tree
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Terminal ia] L. COMBRETAGE^ 311 its 1. and is one of the latest trees to come out m fresli leaf. T. macrocarpa, is a variety in tlie Eng forests of Burma witli large fr., up to 2| in. across. 13. T. Arjuna, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 28 : Brandis F. FL 224—Syn. T, glabra^ W. et Arn., Trinien Handb. Cevlon 11. 160; Pnifaptera Arjiina^ Roxb. Vera. ArjUna, Kauri, Kohcij Hind. Guzerat: Dlicnda IIolemattL Had}\ Kan. Thella inadcU^ Tel. large tree, with liu2:e A often buttressed trunk; bark smooth fijrey, flaking off in large thin layers, branches drooping, heartwood dark brown, very hard. Glabrous, only inflorescence slightly pubescent. Leaves generally sub-opposite, hard, , oblong, sometimes spathulate- oblong, 0 ften crenulate, blade 3-6, petiole I in. long. Fl like 12, Ir. 1 in. long with 5-7 thick narrow wings, ^ in. broad, irregularly marked with ascending Fi(t. 136 —Termmaha Arjuna, Bedd ^. Common on the hanks of rivpis, streams and dry -watercourses in Central India and South Behai, in the Peninsula and Ceylon. Here and there m the Subhinialayan tract (Kangra, 1868). Not in east and central Bengal nor in Burma. Foresters readily distinguish these two species by their bark, their mode of growth and by their habitat. Botanists (Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 448, Trimen Handb. Ceylon ii. 161) are doubtful regarding them. 14. T. Oliveri, Brandis in Hook. lo. t. 2202. Vern. Thanj Burm. A moderate-sizeA glabrous tree, 1. sub-opposite broadly-ovate, blade 1^-3, petiole I in., sec. n. 5-6 pair. Fl. small, nearly glabrous, in slender terminal panicles. Wings narrow, membranous^ f in. long, |- in. broad. Dry region of the Irawaddi valley between 19 and 22 N. lat., chiefly in the Pakokku district, associated with Acacia Cafechu. Bark thick, filled with starch, an extract ot the hark used to adulterate Cutc
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