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232 BOTANY OF WESTERN INDIA. 
squarrosis dorso albo-tomentosis, exterioribus lanceolatis acuminatis 
aristato-cuspidatis margine ciliatis, achenio basi vix attenuato pallido 
glabro nitido subcylindrico ecostato. 
Flores 12-14. Pappus valde caducus.— Crescit ad Parwar-ghát ; fl. Nov. 
This plant forms a remarkable exception to all the published species 
of this well-marked unmistakeable genus, by its unribbed seeds; but 
although it belies its generic name of Decaneurum, it would be doing 
violence to nature to remove, on this account, a plant agreeing so com- 
pletely in every other respect with the character and habit of the genus. 
When fresh gathered, it has a strong odour of Chamomile, which it- 
loses by drying. ; 
! Nat. Ord. ARTOCARPEÆ. 
—" 
ANTIARIS. 
À. saccidora, Dalz.—Lepurandra saccidora, Nimmo, Plants of Bombay, 
p. 193. 
Crescit in regno Warreensi, ad pedem jugi Syhadrensis; fructum 
maturum habet Januario. : : 
This is a gigantic tree, with a trunk eighteen feet in circumference 
at the base. On wounding the fruit, a milky viscid fluid exudes in 
considerable quantity, which shortly hardens into the appearance and 
consistence of bees' wax, but eventually becomes black and shining. 
The inner bark of the tree is composed of very strong tenacious 
fibres, and seems excellently adapted for the manufacture of cordage - 
and mattings. Mr. Nimmo speaks of this tree as being discovered by 
Dr. Lush at Kandalla in 1837, where it grows in deep ravines, and he 
adds, “It is common in the jungles near Coorg, where the people 
manufacture very curious sacks, and by a most simple process, which 
will be hardly credited in Europe. A branch is cut, corresponding to 
the length and breadth of the sack wanted. It is soaked a little and 
then beaten with clubs until the liber separates from the wood. This 
done, the sack formed of the bark is turned inside out until the wood 
. is sawed off, with the exception of a small piece left at the bottom of 
the sack, and which is carefully left untouched. These sacks are in 
general use among the villagers for carrying rice, and. are sold for about 
. Sixannaseach. Some of them have been sent to England as curiosities * 
—.* Two of these curious sacks 
, Sent by Mr. Nimmo, are deposited in the Museum 
of the Royal Botanie Gardens of De | 
