MYROSALANS, the astringent fruit of certain species of Terminalia, of the natural order Combrelacm, natives of the mountains of India. The genus Terminalia has a deciduous bell-shaped calyx and no corolla; the fruit is a juiceless drupe. 7'. Belerica, a species with alternate eliptical entire leaves, on long stalks, produces great part of the myrobalans of commerce; but the fruits of other species often appear under the same name. Tonic properties are ascribed to myrobalans; but although once in great repute, they are now scarcely used in medicine. They are used, however, by tanners and by dyers, and have therefore become a very considerable article of importation from India. They give a durable yellow color with alum, and, with the addition of iron, an excel lent 7nyrobalans are the frnit of Embliert obTeinalis, of the order Eupliorbicee,ere, a native of India. They arc used in India as a tonic and astringent; also iu tanaiug and in the making of ink—There is a kind of plum called the Nyrobalan Plum. See PLUM.
about B. C 480-430; native of Beeotia; Athenian sculptor and engraver of wood and silver; studied under Agendas at Argos. His first great production was the statue of a cow, so wonderfully life-like that it was mistaken for the real animal by cat tle. Myron, as Pliny observes, excelled not in expression but in realistic imitation of men and animals. Perhaps his most noted work was the "Discebolus." or quoit thrower. The image of the cow stood in Athens for many centuries, and was then taken to Rome, where it was known to be as late as the sixth century. Several statues were discovered in the last century, which it was claimed were the work of Myron, and one or two are almost certainly original. The British museum has an ancient marble copy of the "Discobolus."