TERMINALIA CHEBULA. Ritz.
T. retieulata, Both.
Aleluj aswad, . . ARAB. Malela zard, .
. „ Urnbed'hur, . . . „Pang ah, . . . Bum Kodorka maram, !Lamar,. Pilla-marrada, . . CAN. Helileh.i-kalan, . PERS.
Alali mara, . . „ . • ,, Ho-li-leh, Ho-tsze, CHIN. Haritaka, . . SANSK.
Hirde, DUKH. Aralu-gass, . . SINGH.
llordah . . . . GOND. Kaclukai, . . . . TEL. MY, Fearhar, . HIND. Karaka, . . . „ This tree grows in Ceylon, in both the Pen insulas of India, and northwards to Nepal, the Panjal, and Kabul, in Tenasserim, and in Canton province, and everywhere is a large tree. Colonel Beddome describes the wood as of good quality, and much used for building purposes ; the heart wood is yellowish-brown or dark-brown, hard and heavy, and makes good fumiture, but is cross grained and difficult to work. In Burma, yokes and canoes are made of it. The tender leaves, when scarcely unfolded, are punctured by an. insect, and its eggs deposited therein which by the extravasation of the sap become enlarged into hollow glands of various shapes slid sizes, up to 1 inch in diameter they are powerfully astringent, and make as good ink as oak galls; they also yield, mixed with alum, a good durable yellow dye.
The fruit gives the black toyrobalans, which are better than those of T. belerica ; is an article of commerce for the large quantity of tannin which it contains. The fruit and gall-nuts are both used medicinally by the natives. Mr. Gamble says the bark is used for tanning and dyeing, and the unripe fruit is used for tanning, dyeing, and medicine, under the names balhar, zangi, and zangi bar. 471,167 cwt. of myrobalans were ex ported from India in 1882-83, value Rs. 18,46,976 ; and Mr. Gamble says that in the southern circle of Bombay, the Forest Department in 1877-78, from the fruit of this tree, had a clear profit of Rs. 77,000. —Drs. Boyle, Cleghorn Wight, M'Clelland, and Voigt ; Mr. Gamble; COlonel Beddome; Thwaites; p. 539.