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■which we have made with it, we conclude that its properties 

 are similar to those of Pine tar. 



Description.^Tho wood is hard, but easily split ; when 

 sawn across it presents a yellow resinous surface ; sections 

 examined with the microscope show that the yellow colour is 

 due to a solid resinous deposit in the pitted vascular system. 

 The tar has exactly the odour, colour, and consistence of 

 Stockholm tar. 



Heterophragma Rdxburghii, DC, Roxb. Cor. Pi- 



it., f. 145, yields a similar product. Its vernacular names are 

 Waras {Mar.), Baro-kala-goru {Tarn.), Bondagu (Tel). 



DoHchandrone Rheedii, Seem., is the Nir-pongelion 

 of Rheedc (vi., 29), who states that the seeds with ginger and 

 Pavetta root are administered in spasmodic affections, and that 

 in Malabar a decoction of the bark is used for preserving 

 fishing nets. He gives Cornos das Diabos as the Portuguese 

 name and Eocks hoorn as the Dutch. 



I 



DoHchandrone falcata, Scetn. Bedd. Fl. Syiv., 



<. 71, a native of Oudh, Rajputana, Central and South India, 

 has the reputation of being used to procure abortion, and the 

 bark is, it is stated, used as a fish poison. 



Dr. Lyon, Chemical Analyser to the Government of Bombay, 

 found, however, no ill effects to follow the administration of a 

 considerable quantity of a decoction of the bark to a small dog. 

 i^fed. Juris, for India, p. 216.) It is possible that the woody 

 capsules, which are about a foot in length by | of an inch in 



diameter, and somewhat curved, may be used as abortion 

 sticks. 



CRESCENTIA CUJETE, L 



tnn. 



Fig.— Jarq. Atnb., t. Ill ; Flumb. Gen., t 109. Calabash 

 tree {Eng.), Calebassier (/>.). 



Hab.^ South America. Cultivated in India. The fruit. 

 IV»a^<^;-._Kalab"sh [Ajrira). 



