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Observe fruits of the BLOOD PLUM of the Niger CASE 

 {Haematostaphis Barteri, Hook. f.). They are edible 31. 

 :and have an acid flavour. 



No. 172. Wood and gum of Odina Wodier, Roxb., 

 a deciduous tree, 40 to 50 feet high. The wood is used 

 for spear-shafts, scabbards, wheel-spokes, oil-presses, rice- 

 pounders, &c. ; the tree is pollarded for fodder, especially 

 for elephants. The brittle gum is used for sizing paper 

 by the Nepalese ; it is also used for mixing with lime in 

 whitewashing. 



No. 173. Marking Nuts, the fruit of Semecarpus 

 Anacardmm, L. til., a moderate-sized deciduous tree of 

 the East Indies. The juice of the nut mixed with a little 

 quicklime and water is used all over India for marking 

 linen, and is far more durable than the marking inks of 

 Europe ; undiluted it acts as a blister. The bark is used 

 in dyeing. 



Note KuRAKA Nut {Cory nocar pus laevigata^ Forst.), 

 a New Zealand tree 40 feet high ; the fruit is a fleshy 

 drupe an inch long, the palp is edible, the kernel is 

 poisonous, but is eaten by the Maoris after preliminary 

 roasting and washing in salt water. 



Note fruits, oil, and gum, of HOG Plum or Wild 

 Mango (Spondias mangifera, Willd.), a tree of the dry 

 forests of many parts of India and Burma. The ripe 

 fruit is used as an acid vegetable and pickled. " Deer eat 

 it greedily, and heaps of the hard kernels are found 

 everywhere in the forests where this tree grows." 



Fruits of Otaheite Apple {Spondias dulcis, Willd.), 

 and of other species of the genus are exhibited in this 

 case. 



Observe edible fruits of Kaffir Date or Plum 

 {Harpephylliim caffrum^ Bernh.), from the Cape. 



Moringa Order (Moringeae). A. small family of 

 deciduous soft- wooded trees. Natives of Northern Africa, 

 Western Asia, and the East Indies. 



No. 174. Fruits of the Horse-Radish Tree (Mor^ 

 inga pierygosperma^ Gaertn.), cultivated in the Eastern 

 tropics on account of its leaves, flowers and pods, all of 



