524 MONOECiA MONANDKiA. Arlocarpus. 



best chesmits. In Ceylon, where the tree grows most plenti- 

 fully, and where the frnit attains to its greatest size, the in- 

 habitants make them a very considerable article of their diet. 



The wood comes near to mahogany in appearance, and is 

 much used for making- furniture, in Ceylon and some other 

 parts of India. 



The Indians of those parts prepare their best bird-lime 

 from the tenaceous white juice, wich abounds in all the 

 uneatable parts of the fruit, and in the young tender parts of 

 the tree. It flows freely from recent wounds. 



3. A. Lukoocha. Roxb. 



Leaves entire, oval. Aments axillary, globular. Fruit 

 nearly round, somewhat lobate, and almost smooth. 



Smis. Lukoocha. 



Betuj. Dhea-phul-Burhul. 



Found in the gardens in the vicinity of Calcutta, and is 

 common all over Bengal. Leaves deciduous during: the cold 

 season, appearing again with the flowers in March about the 

 beginning of the hot season. 



It is so far as 1 have seen, a tree of a middling size, with a 

 short but thick trimk, and a very large spreading head. 



fiar/t; of the trunk very rough ; that of the young parts pret- 

 ty smooth. Leaves about the extremities of the branchlets al- 

 ternate, short-petioled, somewhat bifarious, oval, entire, gene- 

 rally pointed, smooth above, downy beneath, with many pa- 

 rallel veins, and beautifully reticulated between them, from 

 four to twelve inches long, and from two to six broad. Stipu- 

 les small, cordate, caducous. Aments axillary, being from the 

 axills, or most exterior germs, of last year's leaves; the male 

 are below, the female on the same branchlets, but from diffe- 

 rent axills. Malc flowkrs. Calyx ; spathe no other than 

 one,or two, small, stipide-like scales, embracing the insertion 

 of the spadix. Aments sub-sessile, irregularly roundish, 

 about the size of a nutmeg, every where covered with innu- 

 merable florets, internally ofii brautilul rose-colour. Pen- 



