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d benzol, but less readily soluble in alcohol. It yields with 
se solvents deep orange-coloured solutions which are 
eached by solution: of chlorinated soda, and turned green by 
ydrochloric or sulphuric acids, the erange colour being 
again restored by an alkali. ; 
_ The bark and seeds contain a tannin. Fifty grams of the 
_ over sulphuric acid, left an extract weighing 3°16 grams. Of 
this extract °3 gram was of a resinous nature, and insoluble in 
water. The portion soluble in water, equivalent to 5°72 per 
at. of the seed, gave the usnal reactions of a tannin. The 
queous solution of the tannin was precipitated with gelatine, 
filtered, and the filtrate shaken two or three times with ether. 
_ No appreciable residue was obtained by the evaporation of this 
ethereal extract showing the absence of gallic acid. (J. G. 
ebble. ) 
ANACARDIUM OCCIDENTALE, Linn. 
_ Fig.—Beddome Fl. Syl. t. 168 ; Rheede, Hort. Mat. tii., 
54, Cashew-nut tree (Eing.), Anacardier (F’.). ; 
Hab.—America. Cultivated in India. The tar, spirit and 
Vernacular.—Kaji (Hind., Guz. Mar.), Kottai-mundiri 
(Tam.), Hijli-bédém (Beng.), Jidi-mamidi-vittu (Tel.), Gera- 
~ Poppa (Can.). 
History, Uses, &c.—A native of Brazil, which has been 
_ introduced into India by the Portuguese. Rumphius tells us : 
_ that the fruit is called in Amboyna Boa Frangi, or Portuguese : 
fruit ; it, was not known in Goa A.D. 1550; but Christopher a 
Costa saw it in Cochin shortly after this. The later Mahi 
etan writers notice it as a variety of Biladur (Seme- 
a few trees existed -on the Malabar Coast; since si: 
has become completely naturalized. on the Western ‘Cons , 
we 
arpus Anacardium), and call it Bédém-i-Farangi. In 1653 
