TERNIINALIA ARJUNA. W. and A. Pentaptera arjuna, Roxb. P. angustifolia, Roxb. P. glabra, Roxb.
White Been, ANGLO•HIND. Koba, Jamla, . .
Arjun, '. BENG., HIND. Kabua, howah, . Mattrt. Sadara, . . . BOMBAY. Azun, . . Tonk-kyan, . . . BURM. Jumla, hukheoha, PA:4. 13elee waulkee,. . CAN. Vella mutt', . . TAM. Arjuna, DOM, SANSK.
This large tree grows in tho Panjab, in Bengal. , in the Irawadi jungles, south-east of Surat, and in Canara and Sunda, but only by rivers and strea.m.s, mostly below the ghats. As a forest tree, it is rare in the northern parts of the Bombay side, but very common iu the South Konkan, from Rain garh aouthward, and there too always found in the vicinity of streams and rivers. It reacfies every where a vcry largo aize. It is common throughout the Madras l'residency, growing near the banks of rivers, up to an elevation of 3500 or 4000 feet ; it is largely planted as an avenue tree, particularly in the Tinnevelly district, where it attains an immense girth, and is often furnished with very large buttresses. It is also found in Bengal, Bom
bay, and Burma. The wood is used for building, and boats are often made from it ; it is inferior to the Terminalia tomentosa, but a valuable timber. It flowers in April and 3lay, and the seeds ripen towards the close of the rains.
In the southern foreata of Pegn, next to teak, the most valuable kinds of timber arc T. glabra and T. arjuna, which present clean trunks of G to 8 feet in diameter, and 50 to 80 feet high without a branch. The bark is justly celebrated as an application to wounds.—Col. Beddome, Fl. Sylv.; Mr. Gamble; Drs. Roxb., Voigt, Gibson, 211`Clel land, J. L. Stewart, and Mason; Capt. Sankey.