TEEEBINTHACE^. 305 



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

 juice, cleansing eruptions and ulcers, and employed as odontalgic 

 and antisyphilitic. The embryo is oily and edible. *S'. Forsfeni Bl. 

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

 HoUgarna racemosa^ of India, the receptacular portion is elevated 

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

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

 carp itself which is fleshy and edible. Thus the species of Spondias, 

 such as Spondias hitccr (fig. 260, 261), have drupes which resemble, 

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

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

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

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

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

 infusions, prescribed for affections of the larynx and eyes. The 

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

 Spondias dulcis.^ So also is that of the S. purpurea,^ another Spanish 

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

 In several varieties the fruit has an odour and taste of turpentine ; 

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

 piirposes as that of the Acacias. The Sclerocarya cafra^ and Birrœa'' 

 also have sweetish drupes from which fermented di'iiiks are made. 

 In the Bmhanania the embryo is eaten ; those of the B. angustifolia ® 



< Eoxb. PI. Coromaiid. iii. t. 282; Fl. Ind. ii. thercea duleisWiQwi et K-RS . — Poupartia Maiigi- 



80. — DC. Prodi: ii. 63. — Lindl. Fl. Med. 282. fera Bl. — P. dulcis Bl. — Evia amara Commees. 



— RoSENTH. op. cit. 853. — Mmigifera racemosa — E. dulcis 'Bj,. — Ambalam Hh-eed. Hart. Mnlai. 



Lamk. IU. ii. 113. i. t. 50 [Amra, Evij, Vy, Monhiii de Malabar, 



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



March. Anacard. 24, 151.— «S. Myrobalaiius L. * L. Spec. 613.— March. Aiiacnrd. 24, 151.— 



Si,at. 357 (neo Jaco.). — S. Mombiii jAca. Amer. S. Mombin L. (nee jAca.). — S. Myrobalunus 



378 (nee L.). — S. grnreolens Macf. Jam. i. 22S. Jacq. (necL.). — S. CiruuellaTLVSS. {Eambotislan, 



— S. aitraiitiaca Schum. et Thônn. Bcskr. 225. Bastard Mombin, Plum-tree). 



— S. pseitdo-mi/robalanus Tuss. Fl. Aiit. iv. 97. * " Gum Kijtaijn, G. Sucare." 



t. 33.— S. Microcarpa A. Rich. Fl. Sen. Tent. •> Sond. in Linnaia, xxiii. 26 ; Fl. Cap. i. S25. 



i. 151, t. 40. — S. dubia A. Rich. loc. cit. 153. — — Makch. Anacard. 150 (vulg. Jacoa). 



S. ZanzeeDos. Gen. Si/st. ii. 79 {Hobo, Caja; '• Hochst. in Flora, si-awM. (I8ii), Bes. Beit. 



Piapia-vij, Tapan-Tapon of the TaMtians) . 1. — Walp. Rep. v. 418. — March, loe. cit. 30; 



. ■' FoRST. Prodr. 198.— Rosenth. op. cit. 858. lôO.—Spondias Birrœa A. Rich. Fl. Sen. Tent. 



— March. Anacard. 25, 151.— S. Cythcrœa i. 152, t. 41.— Rosenth. o;;. fi<. 858 (iJiVc). Oil 



SoNN. Voij. ii. t. 123. — Lamk. Diet. iv. 160 ; is also obtained from the seeds. 



III. t. 384.— GiERTN. Fruct. ii. 101, t. 133.-5. ^ Roxb. Cat. Calc. 32.— DC. Prodr. ii. 64, n. 



paniciilata RoxB. — ? S. acuminata Roxb. — S. 2. — Mangifera axillaris 'LkniK.— Spondias sim- 



Mangifera Pers. Sijn. i. 609. — Lindl. Fl. Med. plicifolia Rottl. — Lttndia mangiferoidcs Peur. 

 164.— S. Amara Lamk. Diet. iv. 261, n. i.— Cy- 



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