TER3IINALIA BELERICA. Roxb. p. 431. Beleyluj, . . . ARAB. Vibbituka, . . SANSIC. Tit-sein, Ban-kha, BURM. Bulu-gaas, . . SINGIL BGILI? . . Demi. Tandi marani, . . Test.
Belem ruyrobalan, ENG. Tani kaia maratn, . , Bahira, . HIND., SANSR. TOndi, Tadi chettu, TEL. Benin, Yebela, . MAIIR. Katthu elupze, . . Tani, . . . . MALEAL. Babadha, Bahadrba, Beleyleb, . . . PERS.
This very largo forest tree has a straight tnink and a spreading head. It grows in Ceylon up to an elevation of 2000 feet on the open grassy plains, and it is found throughout India; is not uucom tnon in the Walliar jungles of Coimbatore, grows on the Siwalik tract, and at Peshawnr, and occurs, planted. up to the Indus. Grows also in Goal para, Sukanaghur, Gorakhpur, Dhomtola, 3Io rung mountains. Flowers small, greyish-green, offensively smelling. The wood is whit,e or yellow ish, coarse-grained, and soft, but is used and is said to be tolerably durable ; it answers well for packing - cases, coffee - boxes, and catamarans ; grain measuies are made from it ; and in Malabar and South Canara the tree is sometimes hollowed out for canoes. The fruit is used in dyeing and tanning, and the leaves also for the latter purpose; the dried fruit is said to be similar to,the tEgle fruit ; an oil is expressed from the seed, which is used for strengthening the hair. In the Bombay
Presidency it is found abundantly in all the in land and the coast jungles, but although one of the largest aud finest-looking trees in the forest, straight, tuul of great scantling, it is thero quite useless as a building timber, being immediately attacked by worms. Bark, when wounded, gives out a large quautity of an insipid gum. Its fruits are know, it as the beleric myrobalans ; they are itstringent, tonic. Kernels, tasting liko filberts, eaten by the natives, and held to be intoxicating when eaten in quantity. It attains full size in GO years; the people of Kangra consider it unlucky to employ it in house-building. It is a good avenue tree, is extensively cultivated for the cake of its dense foliage, and tho leaves are considered the best and I most nutritious of all fodder for cattle, particularly for milch COWS. The oil from the kernels separates into two portions,the ohe fluid, of a pale oil-green colour, and the Other white, floccular, and of the consistence of ghi. Madras Mztseunz Report ; Drs. Roxb., W. and A., IVight, Gibson, Brandis, Voigt, and Cleghorn; Beddow.