TEREBINTHACEM. 305 



serves are also made. The nut also contains an acrid, irritant, caustic 

 juice, cleansing eruptions and ulcers, and employed as odontalgic 

 and antisyi:)liilitic. The embryo is oily and edible. ;.S'. Forsteni Bl. 

 and Cassuvium Eoxb. also have a fleshy and edible peduncle. In the 

 Ilolic/arna racemosa^ of India, the recei^tacular portion is elevated 

 still more around the true fruit, which contains a bitter resinous irri- 

 tant juice, blackening in the light. In most Hpondkv it is the meso- 

 earp itself which is fleshy and edible. Thus the species of Spomlias, 

 such as Spo7idi(is lutecr (fig. 260, 261), have drupes which resemble, 

 outwardly at least, oiu- Plums. Hence the name of American or 

 Spanish Plums, frequently given to them. The sarcocarp is sweetish, 

 astringent, or sowewhat sour ; refreshing diet cbinks are made with 

 it, also conserves. The embryo is astringent and antidiarrhreic, like 

 the bark and root. The flowers are used for preparing aromatic 

 infusions, prescribed for afi'ections of the larynx and eyes. The 

 Apple of Cythertea is also a good and handsome fruit, that of the 

 Sj)oiidia.s diilcis.^ So also is that of the S. imrpurea^^ another Spanish 

 plum, with aromatic and acidulate pulp, given as a syrup for diarrhoea. 

 In several varieties the fruit has an odour and taste of tui-pentine ; 

 from the stalks of all a soluble gum oozes,° employed for the same 

 purposes as that of the ±\cucia$. The Sclcrocarija cafra^ andBirra'a'^ 

 also have sweetish cbupes fi-om which fermented di'inks are made. 

 In the Buchanania the embryo is eaten ; those of the B. angustifoUu^ 



1 Eoxb. PL Corcrmand. iii. t. 282 ; Fl. I»d. ii. thcrtea dulcis Wight et Akn. — Poupartia Mangi- 



80. — DC. Prodr. ii. 63. — Lindl. Fl. Med. 282. fera Bl. — P. dulcis Bl. — Evia amara Commers. 



— RoSEXTH. op. cit. 853. — Maiigifora racemosa — P. dulcis Bl. — jitiil/alam Hheed. Hort. Mnhli. 



Lamk. III. ii. 113. i. t. 50 {Amra, Ei'ij, V>/, Monbi» dc Malabar, 



- L. Spec. 75.— DC. Prodr. ii. 75, n. 2.— Arbre dc Cythire). 

 March. Anacard. 24, 151. — S. Mijrobalaims L. ■* L. Spec. 613. — March. Anacard. 24, 151. — 



SijSt. 357 (nee jAca-). — S. Mombin jAca. Amer: S. Mombin L. (neo jAca.). — S. Mijrobaluims 



378 (nee L.). — S. graveolens Macf. Jam. i. 228. Jacq. (necL.). — S. C'in^iiella Tvsi. {Ramboitilaii, 



— 6'. aiirantiaca Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. 225. Bnstard Mombin, Plum-tree). 

 — 8. psendo-myrobalamis Tuss. Fl. Ant. iv. 97. ^ " Gum B'jcaijn, G. Stieitre." 



t. 33.—*. Microcarpa A. Rich. Fl. Sen. Tent. " Sond. i& Liiincea, xxiii. 26 ; Fl. Cap. i. 525. 



i. 151, t. 40.-5. diibia A. Ricu. loc. cit. 153. — — March. Anacard. 150 (vulg. Jacoa). 

 S. ZaiizecVos. Ocn. Sijst. ii. 79 {Sobo, C'aja; 'i Hochst. in Flora, •s.s.vM. {ISii), Pes. Pell. 



Piapia-fi/, Tapan-Tapoii o{ the Ta.hitia.nfi). 1.— Walp. Pep. v. 418.— March, /oc. ciV. 30 ; 



■■' FoRST. Prodr. 198. — Kosexth. op. cit. 858. 150.— Spondia.i Birreeu A. Rich. Fl. Sen. Tent. 



— March. Anacard. 25, 151.-5. Cgt/icrasa i. 152, t. -11.— Rosevtu. op. cit. 858 {Birr). Oil 



SoxN. Vo)/. ii. t. 123. — Lamk. Pict. iv. 100 ; is also ottainod from tho sco.da. 

 III. t. 384.— G.i-;rtn. Fruet. ii. 101, t. 133. — S. ' Roxb. Cut. Calc. 32.— DC. Prodr. ii. 64, n. 



paniciilata Roxii. — ? S. acuminata Uoxn.—S. 2. — Mangifera axillaris La.«k. — Spondias sim- 



Mangifcra Pers. Sijn. i. 509.— LiNDL. Fl. Mid. jilici/olia Rottl. — Ltindia mangiferoides Peuk. 

 104. — S. Amara Lamk. Diet. iv. 201, n. 4. — Cy- 



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