202 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
this country. I have seen plum trees but have not seen the fruit. I do not recollect of ever 
having met with a cherry tree or a cherry in India. Me. 
Propertizs anv Uses. To dwell on these here would be out of place since none of the — 
species are to be had in this country, but it may be mentioned again that both the leaves and | 
ernels of some of the species produce Prussic acid in such abundance as to become poisonous — 
to cattle that brouse on them, and it may equally be mentioned that Prussic acid is the most 
terious effects of the animal one, which had never been overcome, until met by this more — 
though it finally terminated fatally, yet holds ont a hope of cure in that hitherto incorable — 
ficiency of the one poison to overcome oF 
; nthe living animal fibre. ‘To Prussic acid 
Noyeau Owes Its peculiar flavour, and that fact should make people cautious not to use mach of 
a Liqueur, depending for its excellence on so active and dangerous an ingredient, so active — 
— that merely smelling the concentrated acid is enough to endanger or even to destroy 
Sub-order SANGuisorBear. The Burnet tribe. 
« Flowers often unisexnal, Caq/ i : . i oo 
: ’ vs : : ‘ye witha thickened t ¥. lobed limb, ifs — 
tube lined with a disk. Petals none. S'anens definite eee ede Bt ‘s 
the calyx, with which they are then alte 
int 
simple, with a style Proceeding from the apex . 
ewe ig pex or the base; ovule solitary, always 
eee oA that part of the ovary which is next the base of the atte. eh anes onal or 
; . “Vue solitary, enclosed in the often indurate| tube of the calyx. ost solitary, SUS- 
"a; raticle superior or inferior, C. tyledons large, 
ecasionally spiny. Leaves simple aad 
small, often capitate.” ne te a 
remain here, / 1 MRE rae’ . May even be doubted whether it ought fo . 
, in here, Alchemilla vulgaris or laly @ native of the higher hills of India vie ie 
ti the cols ans wha tin ® other genera are found j t [adia fei 
Poe ela ss come a coxa at the Cape of Good H Wa Thay ae ae ‘comiattl 1 
a: ian of Maliaile yeh eg The celebrated Frederick Hoffinan states that : 
lie t freshness” & as the effect of restoring the faded beauty of ladies to its . 
os the Neligherlies ani crmation as Tam enabled to add that the plant in question is a native 
4 Timent being tried, if we can nae fin, } Pi aad there in sufficient quantity to admit of the expe 
iment, 'Y Qad fit subjects among our Ir ones on whom to make om 
> Rides on Gren. | : f 
= ‘concerned, so. Pi apse Srrctrs. In an order to which, so far as the Indian flora is 
es : & much Space need not be devoted to this head. In the Penia- 
