. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 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 doubtf
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 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 Cutch. C. Fr. dry, winged, fl. zygomorphic, wings Fi«*. 137.—Terminalia paniculata, Both Fr. and transverse section. 15. T. paniculata, Roth; Bedd. Fl. Bylv. t. 20; Brandis F. FL 226. Vern. Kinjal, Kindalj Mar.; Ronal, Iluhtve, Kan.; PuJl maddi, Tel.; Piduval, Tarn. A large tree, 1. glabrous, oblong, from a rounded, often unequal base; pale-brown beneath, blade 4-7, petiole |-| in. long, the upper 1. always alternate, the lower often opposite, sec. n. 10-15 pair. Fl. in ample rusty-pubescent panicles, bracts pubescent, acuminate, free portion of calyx glabrous reddish~l?rown, cup- shaped, the inside clothed witb long brown hairs, ovary with 5 rounded ridges. Fr. \-\ in. long, rusty-pubes- cent, sessile, close set in large spreading panicles, the front ridge of ovary growing out into a wing, which is |-1 in. broad. Forests on the west coast and the Ghats, on the Kilgiris^.
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