252 FABACEiE. 



ScHOTiA, Jacq. (DC.pr. 2, p. 507.) 



1. speciosa, Jacq. {Icon. rar. I, t. 75 ; — B. Repos. 5, t. 348.) 3 C. G. 

 H. Senegambia. Has not fl. here. 



Omphalobium. 



\. Scholia, Jacq. {Eccl. ined.) 5 C G. H. R. S. 1840. 



Cynometra, L. (DC.pr. 2, p. 509 ^—W. and A.pr. l.p. 293.) 



1. cauUflora, L. (DC. /. c. ;—W. and A. I. c.;—Roxb. H. B. p. 32.— 

 Lam. ill. t. 331,/. 2;—/. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 63 ;—Rumph. 1, t. 

 62.) 5 Moluccas. Java. Sumatra. Penang. Cultivated in gardens. 

 Fl. small, white. Introduced into H. C. G. in 1800, but had not fl. 

 up to 1814. 



Intsia, Pet. Th. 



l.madagascariensis, DC. {pr. 2, p. 509.) 5 Madagascar. 

 2.polyandra, Roxb. {Coram. 3, t. 286 ;_/?. ind. 2, p. 372 ;—DC. pr. 2, 

 p. 509 ; — W. and A. pr. I, p. 294.) L. b Assam. Fl. largish, white, 

 March and April ; fr. July and Aug. Timber very useful. 



OuTEA, Aubl. {DC.pr. 2. p. 510.) 



X.bijuga, DC. (o. c.p. 511. — Macrolobium bijugum, Colebr. Linn. soc. 

 trans. 12, i. 19.) 3 Singapore. Has not fl. here, though cultivated 

 for more than 10 years. 



Hymen^a, L. {DC.pr. 2, p. 511 ;— G. Dons Mill. diet. 2, p. 458.) 



1. Courbaril, L. {DC. I. c. ; — G. Don's Mill. diet. I. c. ; — Lam. ill. t. 330, 

 /. 1 ; — DC. leg. mem. 12, t. 26,/. 120, germ. ; — Jacq. amer. pict. p. 63, 

 t. 264, /. 6o i—Roxb. H. B. p. 31 ;— J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 63.) 

 Gum Anime Tree. Courbaril Locust Tree. — L. b S. America. Petals an 

 inch long, here pure white. Filaments here pure white. Fl. June and 

 July ; fr. 0. The filamentose, white substance contained in the pods 

 is sweet as honey, and greedily eaten by the Indians, while fresh purga- 

 tive, but afterwards losing«this quality. Between the principal roots 

 of the tree exudes a fine transparent resin, white, yellowish or red, 

 which is collected in large lumps, and called by the English Gum 

 Anime, though, according to Martins, " the genuine Anime is the 

 produce of a species of Icica, and very nearly allied to Elemi." The 

 Courbaril resin {American Copal, Mart.) makes the finest varnish 

 that is known, superior even to the Chinese lac. " For this latter 

 use it is dissolved in the highest rectified spirits of wine. It burns 

 readily, and with a clear flame, emitting a grateful and fragrant smell, 

 for which reason it is sometimes ordered by way of fumigation in the 

 chambers of persons labouring with asthmas or suffocative catarrhs. 

 Its vapours not only strengthen the head, but all parts of the body 

 aff"ected with cold. Some apply it outwardly, dissolved in oil or 

 spirits of wine, to strengthen the nerves. An oil may be distilled 

 from it, useful in palsies, and contractions of the sinews. The inner 

 bark is an excellent vermifuge in spirit or decoction. The timber of 

 old trees is reckoned excellent, and is in great request for wheel- work 



