342 SAFOTACEiE. 



boiled in water, and given as a medicine in several diseases. The hark 

 is a cure for the itch. The flowers, which fall in May, are gathered 

 by the common people, dried in the sun, roasted, and eaten as food. 

 They are also bruised and boiled to a jelly, and made into small balls, 

 which are sold, or exchanged for fish, rice, &c. The milk of the green 

 fruit, and of the tender bark is given as a medicine. The oil pressed 

 from the, fruit is used for lamps. It is the principal ingredient in mak- 

 ing country soap, and to the common people a substitute for ghee and 

 cocoa-nut in their curries and other dishes. Cakes are made of it, 

 and many of the poor get their livelihood by selling these sweet oil- 

 cakes. The cake, left after the oil is expressed, is used for washing 

 the head, and carried as a small article of trade to those countries 

 where the tree is not to be found. {Rozb.) 



2. latifolia, Roxb. (Corom. 1, t. 19; fl. ind. 2, p. 526; — Spreng. syst. 

 2, p. 447, excl. syn. Forst. ; — G. Don's Mill. did. 4, p. 36; — J. 

 Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 107.) *Js^yl Muhooa. b Mountainous parts of 

 the Circars. Bengal. Malabar Hill. Bombay. Throughout the Con- 

 cans. Guzerat. Malwa. Fl. middle-sized, white, with a tinge of green 

 and cream-colour, March and April ; fr. July and Aug. Wood hard, 

 very strong, and proper for naves of wheel-carriages. Flowers eaten 

 raw by the natives. An ardent spirit is distilled from them by the 

 hill-people. The seeds yield by expression a large quantity of con- 

 crete oil, which is used to adulterate ghee, for frying cakes, and by 

 the poorer people to burn. There is frequently to be found a drop 

 of whitish, soft, tasteless resin on the apices of the flowers, before 

 they open. {Roxb.) 



3. butyracea, Roxb. {As. Res. 8, p. 477 ;—fi. ind. 2, p. 527; — Spreng. 

 syst. c. p. p. 189 ;— G. Don's Mill. diet. 4, p. 36 ;— D. Don. pr. fl. 

 nep. p. 146.) b Almora Hills. Nepal. Fl. smallish, white. Has not 

 fl. here as yet. This tree produces a vegetable butter. The Kernels 

 are bruised into the consistence of cream, and then put into a 

 cloth bag, with a moderate weight laid upon them, and left to stand 

 till the oil or fat is expressed. This becomes immediately of the 

 consistence of hog's lard, and is of a delicate white colour. It 

 is much esteemed in rheumatism and contractions of the limbs. It is 

 also used by the natives of rank perfumed as an unction. The pulp 

 of the/rM«7 is eaten by some. {Roxb.) 



SiDEROXYLON, L. {Spreng. syst. I, p. 510, No. 721 ; — G. Don's Mill. diet, 

 p. 28.) 

 l.inerme, L. {Spreng. syst. I, p. 666; — G. Don. I. e. ; — Mill. ill. t. 

 299. — S. Argan, Lam. ill. No. 2455, t. 120,/. 1. — Romcria inermis, 

 Thunb. in Rom. arch. 2, p. 2.) S C. G. H. Fl. small, white. Has 

 not fl. here, though it has l)een in the garden many years. 

 2. regium, Wall. {Cut.) L. b Pegu. Has been introduced into H. C. G. 

 Fl. ? 



