. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 308 L. [Termlnalia Burma excepting the arid region of Sind, western Eaipiitana and the southern Puniab. L. shed Feb-March, fresh foliage copper or tan-coloured, in April. FI March-May. Fr. used for dyeing and tanning. 3 T. fcetidissima, Griff.; Mergui, Malacca. L. shining, coriaceous, obovatcj blade 5-7, tapering into petiole I in. long, drupe compressed obovate- ellipsoid. (6) Spikes paaicled excepting T. pallida^ panicles often t
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 308 L. [Termlnalia Burma excepting the arid region of Sind, western Eaipiitana and the southern Puniab. L. shed Feb-March, fresh foliage copper or tan-coloured, in April. FI March-May. Fr. used for dyeing and tanning. 3 T. fcetidissima, Griff.; Mergui, Malacca. L. shining, coriaceous, obovatcj blade 5-7, tapering into petiole I in. long, drupe compressed obovate- ellipsoid. (6) Spikes paaicled excepting T. pallida^ panicles often terminal. 4 T. Chebula, Retz.; Roxb. Cor. PL t. 197; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 27; Brandis t. 29. Vern. Hcn\ Ilarra, Hind.; Ilirda, Hahra, Mar.; Nella (black) Karaka^Tel.; Kadukal^ Tam.; Pangct^ Bui*m. A large deciduous tree, leaf-buds, branchlets and youngest 1. with soft shining, generally rust-coloured hairs. Leaves distant, often subopposite, elliptic or ovate, sec. n. 6-8 pair, arching, prominent, blade 3-8, petiole \-l in. long. Two glands or swellings on petiole near the top. Fl. bisexual. i m. across, sessile, dull white or Fia. 133.—Terminalia Chebula, Eetz. Fr. and transverse section enlarged yellow, with an offensive smell. Spikes sometimes simple, usually in short panicles, terminal and in the axils of the uppermost leaves. Bracts subulate or lanceolate, longer tlian buds, deciduous. Limb of calyx cup- shaped, cleft half-way into 5 acute triangular segments, woolly inside. Fruit more or less distinctly 5-angled, obovoid from a cuneate base, sometimes ovoid or nearly globose, 1-11 in. long. Shape and bizq of fr. varies exceedingly. Snbhimalayan tract-from the Sutlej eastwards, ascending to 5,000 ft, Common in the deciduous forests of both peninsulas. Sheds its 1. , new foliage in April, fl. April-Aug. fr. ripens In the Centr. Prov. two distinct flowering periods: April-May and July-August. The fi. often attacked by a gall insect. This species v
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