210 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOTANY OF [Onagraria. 
Terminalia benzoin in the Isle of France. The galls found on the leaves of 7. Chebula by 
Dr. Roxburgh are powerfully astringent, and used in dyeing yellow and black. So the 
ripe fruit of 7. Bellerica is reckoned astringent, and 7. moluccana is like it. That of 
I. Chebula in an unripe state, and of different ages (v. Fleming, As. Res. xi. p- 182. 8vo.), 
has long been known under the name of black, yellow, and chebulic (kaboolee from 
Cabool) myrobolans, and considered gently laxative. The fruit of 7. citrina, as well as 
of T. angustifolia and T. gangetica, is like that of T. Chebula, and employed for the same 
purposes. The kernels of 7. Catappa have the same name, badam, applied to them, as 
to those of the common almond; they are eaten as such, and are very palatable. I have 
seen the tree as far north as Allahabad, in gardens. The kernels of 7’. moluccana, and 
those of 7’. Bellerica, are also eaten. From the latter a gum exudes, as from Combretum 
alternifolium in S. America. A milky juice is described as flowing from 7’ benzoin, 
Linn. f., which, being fragrant on drying, and resembling benzoin, is used in churches 
in the Mauritius as a kind of incense. 7 
Conocarpus latifolia; Roxb. Fi. Ind: vol. ii. p. 442. Wight and Arnott, Prod. Fl. Ind. Penins. 1. 
p. $16. Anogeissus latifolia. Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 4014.—Tab. 45.—(a.) Head of flowers ;— 
(4.) a single flower separated ;—(c.) the same, with the upper part of the calyx opened, showing the 
insertion of the stamens, the filiform part of the calyx contracting above the base, which embraces the 
ovary ;—(d.) carpels imbricated in a head ;—(e.) a single carpel with its two wings, and terminated 
by the indurated tube of calyx and the style. ; 
This species, common in the southern, is also found in the northern parts of India, as in the Kheree 
Pass,where it is called baklee. It clearly belongs to the same section as the African Anogeissus leio- 
carpa. v. Tent. Fl, Senegamb. p. 279. t. 65. 
67. RHIZOPHOREZ. 
The mangrove tribe, so common on the equinoctial shores, both of the Old and the 
New World, and which are so remarkable for their seed germinating while yet attached 
to the branch, as well as for the adventitious roots which serve as supports to the 
trunk, hardly admit of notice in this work, were it not that Carallia lucida, one of the 
family, is mentioned by Dr. Wallich as having been procured from Kemaon, as well as 
from Silhet, Chittagong, and the Malayan Peninsula, and the lower regions of the Circar 
mountains. This is another instance of a tropical plant travelling far north along the | 
tract of forest. 3 . 
In the Delta of the Ganges, and near Chittagong, Rhizophora (Bruguiera. Lam.) 
gymnorrhiza, is found, as well as R. Candel, whence both extend to the shores of the 
Indian Peninsula; The wood of several plants of this tribe is described as being hard 
and durable. 3 
68. ONAGRARLE. 
This family, as constituted by De Candolle, contains several tribes, some of which 
have been separated as distinct orders ; but as the tribes Jussiee and Onagree are still 
retained, there is a want of uniformity in its geographical distribution. Eypilodium, 
found in the cool parts of the world, and in mountainous situations, is like so many 
other genera of the same distribution, common in the Himalayas, with Circea, found 
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