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BIGNONIACEJE. 23 



more erect to the lop ; leaves opposite, pinnate, -with an "odd one)' 

 about twenty inches long ; leaflets opposite, short petioled, gener- 

 ally lour pair, the inferior smallest, obliquely oval, pointed. 



mar 



sometimes slightly notched about the 



downy, afterwards smooth, about 4 inches long by two broad ; 



petioles about 9 inches long, channelled, smooth ; stipules none ; 



panicles terminal, the larger ramifications decussate, the smaller 



mi 



cles and pedicels round, . covered with oblong grey scabrous 

 specks; bmcts small, caducous; flowers pretty large, yellow, 

 veiy fragrant ; calyx 5-notched ; nectary, a yellow fleshy ring 

 surrounding the base of the germ; filaments, there is a fifth 

 sterile one between the lower pair ; anthers double ; stigma 

 2-cleft; silique very long, slender, twisted; receptacle of the 

 seeds spongy, white, with alternate notches on the sides for the 

 seeds to lodge in. {Roxh.^ FL IncL^ IIL, 106.) 



STEREOSPERMUM XYLOCARPUM, 



Fig.-^Wtghi Tc, L 1335-6 ; Bedd. FL 8ylv., t 70. 



Hab. — Beccan Peninsula. The wood and tar. 

 Vernacular, — Kharsing [Mar.), Ghansing {Can.). 



History, Uses, &C. — This tree is a native of the forests 



of Western India from Khandesh to Malabar. It was introduced 

 by Dr. Andrew Berry into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, and 

 is minutely described by Roxburgh. 



The natives by a rough process of the same nature as that by 

 which tar is obtained from Pine wood, extract from the wood a 

 thick fluid of the colour and consistence of Stockholm tar, which- 



for scaly eruptions on the skin. Two 



rem 



globular earthen pots are used, the upper contains the wood in 



small 



om 



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cover, and is luted to the mouth of the lower pot. Cowdung 

 cakes are then piled up round the two pots and set fire to. 

 Dr. Gibson appears to have been thp firsf fn Avon, ^+^'^r.^^;^.r^ frw 



the use of this substance by the natives. From some trials 



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