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INDIGOFERA L1NIFOLIA. 



XANTHOCIIYMUS PICTORIUS. 



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Leaves simple, alternate, nearly two-faced, short-petioled, form very rich cream, of a bright yellow colour, considerably acrid, and 



various, from oval to narrow-lanced, entire, hoary, size 



various. 

 Stipules petiolary, dagger'd. 



Raceme axillary, sessile, as long or longer than the leaves. 

 Flowers numerous, small, beautiful bright red. 

 Legume very small, hoary, globular, one-seeded. 



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hardens, and its taste becomes less acrid. 



It makes a pretty good water colour, either by itself as a yellow, 

 or in mixture with other colours to form green, &c. It sinks in 

 spirits or water ; in the first it is imperfectly soluble, but produces 

 a yellow tincture ; it is still less soluble in water, and the tincture 

 is of a less deep colour. Alkaline salts enable the water to dissolve 



This is the smallest species of the genus which I know. It is more of the gum, the solution being of a dirty, deep yellow ; but 



a native of dry, sandy, pasture ground. 





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XANTHOCHYMUS PICTORIUS 



Iwara-Mamady of the Telingas. 



both solutions soon become turbid, and most of the gum is preci- 

 pitated. It melts and burns in the fire into a black coal, with much 

 smoke, but no particular smell. 



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From wounds made in the bark of the tree, a milky juice 

 exsudes, which soon becomes thick, and as it thickens inclines 

 more and more to yellow. It has no smell and little taste, when 

 first taken into the mouth, but after some time a sense of acrimony 

 and dryness is perceived extending a little way down the throat. 

 This juice, like that collected from the fruit, is imperfectly soluble 



GENERIC CHARACTER 



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in spirits 



Calyx 5 -leaved. Cord 5-petal'd. Xectaries 5. Stamens conjoined 



into 5 bodies. Apple 1-5-seeded. 



Trunk straight, of a considerable height, covered with scabrous 



dark-colour'd bark. 

 Branches numerous, spreading, forming a large shady evergreen 



head. 

 Leaves opposite, petioled, linear-lanced, entire, pointed, very 



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TERMINALIA CHEBULA 



Retz. obs. 5. p. 31. 



Cadukay of the Telingas. 



smooth, shining, firm, 6 to 16 inches long, and from H to A large tree, with a tolerably erect trunk, and a large spreading 



4 broad. Petiole short, colour'd, worm-like, surrounded with 



annular rugae/ 



ties none. 

 Flowers from 4 to 8, form small simple umbels from the axils of 



Stip 



shady ever-green head. 

 Bark light ash-colour, and pretty smooth, except on the trunk of 



large trees, where it is very scabrous, and deeply crack'd. Its 

 taste astringent and bitter. 



last year's leaves, or where they stood ; they are white, and Leaves nearly opposite, petioled, egg'd, above smooth, below 



when full blown, about the size of a shilling. 

 Pedicels one-flower'd, smooth, thickening, about an inch long. 

 Calyx 5-leaved: leaflets concave, orbicular, unequal, permanent 

 Petals 5, orbicular, spreading. 



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standing alternately with the filaments. 



Filaments from 15 to 20, conjoined into 5. Anthers twin. 

 Germ above, round. 





short. 



Style very 



Stigma targeted, 5-lobed: lobes oblong, spreading. 



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covered with a whitish down ; round the under side of the 

 margin are many yellow glands, and always two or three of 

 larger size, where the leaf ends in the petiole ; length about 

 six inches, breadth three and a half. 



Petioles about two inches long, round, have two or more glands on 



their sides near the apex. 



Spike terminal, simple or compound, covered with yellow down. 



Flowers small, yellow ; they are all, so far as I have seen, herma- 

 phrodite. 



Drupe oval, somewhat pentagonal, smooth, when ripe yellow, and 



about the size of a pigeon's egg. 



pointed at the apex; when ripe, of a beautiful deep yellow Nut oval, exceedingly hard. 



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lour. 



Seeds from 1 to 4, large, oblong, immersed in the pulp of the 



apple. 



A native of the mountainous parts of the Circars ; flowering 

 time April, May, and June. 



This valuable, large tree, yields timber of considerable size, 



A large tree, a native of moist valleys among the Circar hard, and durable, and is applied to various purposes by the 



mountains ; 



flowers in the hot season. Fruit ripe in November, 



natives. The outer coat of the fruit is much used by the chintz 

 printers and dyers, on the coast of Coromandel. Its astringency 



viting to the eye, 

 apples in England: 



The ripe apples are eaten by the natives. They are very in- serves to fix the colours of the latter, and enables the painters to 



and in taste little inferior to many of our 

 I have often eat them myself, and have 

 no' doubt, if meliorated by culture, that they would prove a deli- 

 cious fruit. 



The green, but full grown fruit, yields a large quantity of a gum, paper, were exposed to the weather on the same day with two 



very like Gummi Guttse. The best way to obtain it was by cutting 



give better defined outlines to their figures. 



With this outer coat of the fruit and salt of steel, I have made a 

 better and more durable ink than what is brought to India from 

 England. By way of comparison, some lines written with it on 



pape 



written with best English cake ink, the 



the apples across, and, as the yellow juice issued, (which it does other with ink made of English ink powder. The result was 



rapidly) to scrape it off. It is, when recent, of the consistence of a much in favour of 



my 



for while, the lines written with it 



