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ADENANTHERA PAVONINA. Mimosece. NAT. BANJUNA. TAM. 

 MANSENI KOTTA. Redwood. An unarmed tree; flower small, 

 and white; the seeds are of a bright scarlet colour, worn as 

 beads, also used as weights; the wood yields a dye used by 

 Brahmins, 



^EGLE MARMELOS. Aurantiacece. NAT. BEL. T. MAREDOO. 

 The Bengal Quince. A thorny tree with ternate leaves, fruit 

 smooth, resembling an orange with a yellow hard rind, the pulp 

 is used by the natives in chronic diarrhoea ; it has also an aperient 

 quality and is said to be very nutritious, the rind, which is 

 astringent, is used in dyeing yellow. 



AGLAIA ODORATA. Aurantiacece. A shrub with ternate 

 and pinnate leaves, and very small yellow flowers in axillary 

 racemes. 



AGATHIS AUSTRALIS. Coniferce. The New Zealand pine. A 

 most stately pine, lately introduced from the Cape into the Hor- 

 ticultural Society's Garden, Bombay, by A. N. Shaw, Esq. 



AGATHIS LORANTHIFOLIA. Dammar pine of the Eastern 

 Isles. 



AGATI GRANDIFLORA. Leguminosce. NAT. BUCKA OR BOKPHOOL. 

 This is a tree of rapid growth, generally cultivated for its 

 large red or white flowers and pods, the legumes are from twelve 

 to eighteen inches long, and as well as the flowers, are much 

 used for food by the Natives : there are several species with a 

 variety of variegated and red flowers. 



AGAVE MEXICANA. ORDER Bromeliacece. This plant resem- 

 bles the Aloe ; the centre scape rises to the height of 18 or 20 

 feet, flowers in the rains, while the seed germinates in the cap- 

 sules before they drop off. It grows in almost any soil, requires 

 little care, and yields in Mexico, the celebrated liquor called 

 "Pulque," which is thus procured. 



" When the Indian becomes aware that the plant is about to 

 flower he cuts out the heart, covers it over with the side leaves, 

 and all the juice which should have gone to the stem of the flower, 

 runs into the empty bason thus formed, into which the Indian, 

 thrice a day and during several months in succession inserts a 



