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tinctoria, L.) Fustick. 5 W. Indies. New-Granada. Brazil. Has not 

 fl. here. Fustick, a yellow dye, is the wood of this tree. 

 2. Calcar galli, Lodd. MSS. 3 Native place ? Has not fl. here. 

 /. BATiEiE, (Batideae, Mart.) 

 (Lindl. Nat. Syst.p. 178.) 

 Batis, p. Br. (Spreng. syst. 3, p. 893, No. 3169 ,—Juss. gen. pi. p. 443.) 

 .'' l.spinosa, Roxb. (/. ind. 3, p. 762, No. 1 ; — Trophis spinosa, Willd. ; — 

 Spreng. si/st. 3, p. 902; not Roxb. Jl. ind. 3, p. 762, No. 2; — Rumph. 

 5, t. 15, /. 2.) L. $ v_y Moluccas. Coromandel. Introduced into 

 H. C. G. in 1802, but had not fl. up to 1814. 

 ? 2.fruticosa, Roxb. {fl. ind. 3, p. 763.) B Chittagong. In H. C. G. fl. 



Oct. ; fr. May. {Roxb.) 

 ? 3. aurantiaca. Wall. MSS. Native place } In H. C. G. Fl. > 

 Epicarpurus, B1. {Bijdr.p. 488 ; — Endl. gen.pl. I, p. 277.) 



1. orientalis, Bl. (Trophis spinosa, Roxb. fl. ind. 3, p. 762 .'') 5 Moun- 

 tains of India. In H. C. G. fl. C. S. ; fr. H. S. {Roxb.) 

 Brosimum, Swz. {Spreng. syst. I, p. 6, No. 49 ; — Endl. gen. pi. I, p. 279.) 

 1. AHcastrum, Swz. {fl. ind. occ. \, t. I,/. 1 ; — Spreng. syst. \,p. 22; — 

 Roxb. H. B. p. 71.) Jamaica Bread-nut Tree, b Jamaica. Intro- 

 duced into H. C. G. in 1804, but had not fl. up to 1814. Abounds 

 in a tenacious, gummy milk. Its leaves and young shoots are much 

 eaten by cattle, but when they become old, they cease to be innocu- 

 ous. The roasted nuts are used instead of bread, and have much the 

 taste of Hazel nuts. {Swz.) 

 •2. utile, Endl, (/. c— Galactodendron utile, Humb.—B. M. m, t. 3723- 

 24. — Palo de Vaca, Humb.) Cow Tree of the Caracas, b Stem more 

 than twenty feet in circumference at about five feet from the root, 

 running up to a height of sixty feet, perfectly uninterrupted by either 

 leaf or branch, when its vast arms and minor branches, most luxu- 

 riantly clothed with foliage, spread on every side, fully twenty-five or 

 thirty feet from the trunk, and rise to an additional elevation of 

 forty feet, so that this stupendous tree is upwards of a hundred feet 

 high. Native place Caracas, more peculiarly on the Cordillera of 

 the shore, at an elevation of about 4000 feet, in dense forests where 

 the thermometer in May is 70^. Incisions made in the trunk of the 

 tree are followed by a profuse flow of gluey, thickish milk, destitute of 

 acridity, of an agreeable balsamic odour, and very nutritious. The 

 negroes and free people, who work in the plantations, soak in it bread 

 made of Maize, Cassava, &c. and generally grow stouter during the 

 season when the Palo de Vaca yields most milk, {Humb.) In H, 

 C. G. where, however, it does not thrive. 

 Trophis, P. Br, {Spreng. syst. 3, p. 893, No. 3172; — E?idl. gen. pi. p. 

 281. 

 1. aspera, Retz. {Spreng. syst. 3, p. 902 ; — Roxb. fl. ind. 3, p. 761 ; — 

 J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 176. — Streblus asper, Lour. — Achymus asper. 



