TEREBINTHACE.E. 303 



employed by confectioners for preparing comfits, or as a condiment in 

 several aliments, pies, ices, cakes, creams, and sansage meat. Green, 

 pectoral and soothing emulsions, a syrup, and emollient, and drinks are 

 prepared from them ; they were believed to be tonic and aphrodisiacal, 

 and for that reason formed part of certain exciting electuaries of the 

 ancient pharmacopoeia. The paste and oil of the Pistachios are also 

 used as cosmetics. There are many other Terchinthacca' whose seeds 

 or fruit are eaten in hot countries. Those of Corynocarpus Icevi- 

 (jatm FoRST.^ are sold as edibles in ISTeXv Zealand. In Madagascar 

 they use those of Sorindela madagascuriensis?' The Mango, the fruit 

 of the 3fa»(/ifera indica^ (fig, 318-320), is considered the most exqui- 

 site fruit of tropical regions.* There are many cultivated varieties, 

 grafted with care, in the majority of the warm countries of both 

 hemispheres, with great differences in size, colour, consistence, and 

 flavour of the flesh of the pericarp. This is considered to be refresh- 

 ing, antiscorbutic, stomachic, antidysenteric ; it is prepared with 

 sugar and brandy ; wine, alcohol, and vinegar are obtained from it ; 

 it is eaten, either alone or mixed with the embryo, which is more or 

 less astringent, sometimes bitter, sought after as autidiarrhoeic and 

 antidysenteric, anthelmintic. The leaves also are astringent, rich in 

 tannin, used for quinsy, toothache, bronchitis, and asthma. The 

 trunk and fruits contain an oleo-resinous matter with an acidulous 

 flavour, employed in America as a stimulant, sudorific, antisyjdiilitic, 

 and antipsoric* In the species of Anacardiiun^ principally in A. oc- 

 cidcntuW^' (fig. 321-324), the properties of the organs of vegetation 

 are very nearly the same ; from the bark oozes a yellowish and hard 

 resin, having almost the appearance of yellow amber, the Cashew 

 gum (Fr. Gomme d'Anacarde), soluble, and used for nearly ths same 



' Char. Gen. 31, t. 10. — Lamk. ///. t. 143, fig. * Some have even gone so far as to suppose 



3. — Hook, in Jlul. Mai/, t. 4379. — Hook. f. Fl. that the apple-tree of Eden was a Mango. 



jV.-/(7. i. 48. — XinHZ\iH. op. cil. 505. — Merretia 'Many other Mnngifcra are indicated as 



lue'ula Soi.AXD. MSS. ha/ing the same properties. They even eat in 



- Dvp.-Tii. &'<«. Niiv. Maday. 24. — DC. Cochin China, notwithstanding its odour, tlie 



Prodr. ii. 80 [Maiiguier a grappes). fruit of M. fvetida Lour. 



3 L. Spec. 290.— G*;ktx. Fruct. ii. 90.— DC. '• L. Spec. 548.- Jacq. Amei: i. t. 181.— DC. 



riodr. ii. 63, n. 1. — Ttur. in Did. Sc. Aat. Frodr. ii. 62, n. 1.— A. S. H. in Ai-c/i. But. i. 



Atl. t. 262.— JIek. et Del. Did. Mat Mid. iv. 269.— Guih. op. cit. iii. 452.— LixnL. Fl. Mrd. 



216. — Gum. op. cit. iii. 493. — Lindi,. Veg. 282.— Mer. et Dei,. Diet. Mat. Med. i. 274.— 



Kliigd. 466 ; Fl. Med. 281.— A. Rich. Ele'm. ed. March. Aiiacard. 141.— H. Bn. in Did. Encijcl. 



4, ii. 342. — RosESTH. op. cit. 8-54. — II. B.n, in Sc. Med. iv. 51. — Cassurliim pomifirum Lamk. — 



Diet, Hiicijcl. Sc. M61. ser. 2, iv. 506 {Maugn, Aeajiiba oceideiitalis G.1'.RT.\-. [Aiiacarde, Acajou 



31. cultirC; Apricot nf Saiiit-Domingn). ajriiils, A. A pimmes). 



