INDEX 



441 



Bloom poison, 243 



Boats, wood used for making, 350 



Bocoa prouacensis (tree), wood, 

 quality and uses of, 348 



von Boeyer, production of artificial 

 indigotin, 338 



Bois de caliateur, 354. See also 

 Pterocarpns santalDius 



Bombay, pea-nut in, average com- 

 position, 57 



yield of, 55 



Boname, analyses of Dolichos 

 biflontSj 1 10 



— calculations as to yield of soy 



bean, 185 



— manganese in ash of various 



plants, 228, 229 



— percentage composition of pods 



of PUJiecolobium sai/ianj 308 

 — - prussic acid in Leguminosse, 231 



— seeds of Tephrosia Candida as 



food for live stock, iq6 



— yield of Crotalaria at Agronomic 



Station, Mauritius, 102 



— — of dry ground- or pea-nuts, 



55. 



Bonavis bean, 116 



see also DolicJios lablah 



Bonema and Thiel, theory of assimi- 

 lation of nitrogen by plants, 42 



Bottomley, Professor, manufacture 

 of nitro-bacterine, 44 



Boussingault, absorption of nitrogen 

 from air by plants, 9, 10, 11 



Bowdichia major (tree), medicinal 

 uses, 378 



— wood ofj ciuality and uses, 



357. . 



— virgilioides (tree), medicinal 



uses, 378 



■ — • wood, quality of, 357 



medicinal uses, 378 



Box poison, 243 



Brachysenia undidatum (shrub), re- 

 puted poisonous, 240 



Brazil, Arachis hypogsca (ground- or 

 pea-nut), indigenous to, 47, 48 



— LeguminosJE yielding building 



wood in, 347/348, 350, 355, 356, 

 357, 358, 359, 361, 362, 363, 364, 

 365, 368, 370 



— Phaseolns Caracalla probable 



native of, 139 



— wood of species of Machaerium 



growing in, uses, 352 

 Bronchitis, plants used as remedies 



for, 375, 376 

 Brownea coccinea (shrub), medicinal 



uses, 378 

 Bruchus destructive to pigeon-pea, 



. 93, 94 

 Building, wood for, Leguminosse 

 yielding, 346-370 



Burkill, chemical analysis of Indian 

 variety of Psopliocarpus tetra- 

 gonolobns (Pois carre), 174 



■ — original habitat of Psopliocarpus 

 tetragOHolobiiSj 171 



Burma, Leguminosae yielding build- 

 ing wood in, 351 



• — peas produced in, prussic acid 

 content, 237 



Bntea frondosa (tree), bark used for 

 textile purposes, 385 



charcoal from, used for gun- 

 powder, 347 



kino gum produced by, 316 



— - — medicinal uses, 372 



— - — tannin and dye produced by, 



2>2>1 



— snperba (climbing shrub), wood 



of, 348 

 Butyric acid obtained from fruit of 

 carob tree, 297 



Cabinet making, wood for, Legu- 

 minosae yielding, 346-370 



Cacaos, best manure for dressing, 

 198 



Caesalpinieae, i, 2 



— differentiation from Papilion- 



aceac, 2 



— edible, 394 



— gum and resin producing, 320 

 — • leaves, 5 



— medicinal uses, 378 



— ornamental, 410 



— producing tanning matter and 



dyes, 33Q 



— species valuable as fodder, 293 

 — • suspect and poisonous species, 



244, 245 



— tribes, 2 



— used for textile purposes, 388 



— yielding wood for cabinet mak- 



ing, building. &c. , 356 

 Cxsalp'mia Bonditcella (climbing 

 shrub), medicinal uses, 380 



— coriaria (tree), cultivation of, 



340. See also Dividivi 



— digyna (tree), analyses of crushed 



husks, 340 

 seeds contain illuminant oil, 



394 

 • — Sappan (climbing shrub), medi- 

 cinal uses, 381 



— sepiaria, gum producing, 321 



— species of, yielding tanning 



matters and dyes, 340, 341 

 Cajanus bicolor , 86 

 — ■ flavus (shrub), textile uses of, 



.387 



— indicus (pigeon pea), as inter- 



crop, 93 



