12 ' SAPOTAC.E&. [MIMUSOPEK 



greatly valued for its sweet succulent corollas, which are eaten either 

 raw or cooked, or made into sweetmeats. A coarse kind of spirit is also 

 distilled from the flowers The fruit is eaten, and from it is extracted 

 an oil, which is used for soap-making as well as for burning and cook- 

 ing. The oil-cake is used for poisoning fish. The heartwood is of very 

 good quality, but owing to the value of the flowers and fruit the tree ia 

 very seldom felled. 



2. B. tmtyracea, Roxb. in As. Res. viii, 477* Fl. Ind. ii, 527; Eon* 

 Prod. 146 5 Eoyle III. 263; Brand. For. Fl. 290, t. 35; Ind. Trees 427; 

 F. B. I. iii t 546 ; Watt E. D.; Eanjilcil For. II. 219; Gamlle Man. Ind- 

 Timb. 445. Vern, Cheuli (Oudh), chiura (Kumaon). 



A large tree, with dark grey or brownish bark. Leaves coriaceous, 

 crowded near the ends of the branches, 6-12 in. locg, obovate or obovate- 

 oblong, sub-obtuse, rhomboid at the base, tomentose when young, 

 glabrous or floccose-tomentose beneath when mature; primary nerves 

 15-20 pairs ; petiole 1-1^ in. ; stipules in., ovate-lanceolate, caducous. 

 Flowers crowded below the sub-terminal leaves, drooping, tomentose 



. Calyx coriaceous, rustyvillous ; lobes 5, imbricate, not 2-seriate. Corolla 

 I in. long, tube pale-yellow, cylindrical, not fleshy ; lobes 8-10, spread- 

 ing. Stamens 30-40, inserted at the' mouth of the corolla tube ; fila- 

 ments glabrous, nearly as long as the anthers ; anthers exserted, linear* 

 lanceolate, not hairy. Ovary 7-9-celled. Berry ovoid, smooth, 1-3- 

 seeded. 



Dehra Dun at Tapoban, and occasionally as a small tree in the forests cf 

 the Gonda district inN. Oudh. Flowers Nov. to Jan. DISTRIB. : Sub- 

 tropical Himalaya up to 5,000 ft. from Kumaon to Sikkim and Bhutan. 

 The seeds yield a white substance resembling lard, which remains 

 solid and does i ot deteriorate in the plains during the hot weather. It 

 is used in the manufacture of soap and candles, and in the preparation 

 of an ointment for relieving rheumatic pains. The pulp of the fruit 

 and the oil-cake are eaten. 



2. MIMUSOPS, Linn. ; PI. Brit. Ind. iii, 548. 



Trees with milky juice. Leaves coriaceous, with many slender 

 spreading primary nerves. Flowers axillary, solitary or in fascicles. 

 Calyx-segments 6-8, in 2 series ; outer series valvate in bud, enclosing 

 the inner 'imbricate segments. Corolla-tube short ; lobes 18 or 24, in 

 2 or 3 series. Stamens 6-8, inserted near the base of the corolla and 

 opposite to the lobes of its interior series; filaments ^hort ; anthers 

 lanceolate, connective excurrent ; ^taminodes as many as the stamens, 

 alternate with those of the same series or connate with them at the 

 base* entire or variously toothed. Ovary hairy, 6-8-celled. Berry 



