TEREBINTHAOE^. 808 



employed by confectioners for preparing comfits, or as a condiment in 

 several aliments, pies, ices, cakes, creams, and sausage meat. Green, 

 pectoral and soothing emulsions, a syrup, and emollient, and drinks are 

 •prepared from them ; they were believed to be tonic and aphrodisiacal, 

 and for that reason formed part of certain exciting electuaries of the 

 ancient pharmacopoeia. The paste and oil of the Pistachios are also 

 used as cosmetics. There are many other Terebinthacece whose seeds 

 or fruit are eaten in hot countries. Those of Corynocarpus Icevi- 

 gatus FoRST.^ are sold as edibles in New Zealand. In Madagascar 

 they use those of Sorindeia madagascariensis? The Mango, the fruit 

 of ^Aie Mangifera indica^ (fig. 318-320), is considered the most exqui- 

 site fruit of tropical regions.* There are many cultivated varieties, 

 grafted with care, in the majority of the warm countries of both 

 hemispheres, with great differences in size, colour, consistence, and 

 flavour of the flesh of the pericarp. This is considered to be refresh- 

 ing, antiscorbutic, stomachic, antidysenteric ; it is prepared with 

 sugar and brandy ', wine, alcohol, and vinegar are obtained from it ; 

 it is eaten, either alone or mixed with the embryo, which is more or 

 less astringent, sometimes bitter, sought after as antidiarrhceic and 

 antidysenteric, anthelmintic. The leaves also are astringent, rich in 

 tannin, used for quinsy, toothache, bronchitis, and asthma. The 

 trunk and fruits contain an oleo-resinous matter with an acidulous 

 flavour, employed in America as a stimulant, sudorific, antisyphilitic, 

 and antipsoric* In the species of Anacardium^ principally in A. oc- 

 cidental (fig. 321-324), the properties of the organs of vegetation 

 are very nearly the same ; from the bark oozes a yellowish and hard 

 resin, having almost the appearance of yellow amber, the Cashew 

 gum (Fr. Gomme d' Anacarde), soluble, and used for nearly the same 



1 Char. Gen. 31, t. 16. — Lamk. III. t. 143, fig. * Some have even gone so far as to suppose 



3_ Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 4379. — Hook. p. Fl. that the apple-tree of Eden was a Mango. 



N.-Zel. i. 48. Eosenth. op. cit. 505. — Merretia ■' Many other Mangifera are indicated as 



Iwida SoiiAKD. MSS. having the same properties. They even eat in 



- Dvp.-Th. Qen. Nov. Madag. 24. — DC. Cochin China, notwithstanding its odour, the 



Prodr. ii. 80 {Maitguier a grappes). fruit of M. foetida Lour. 



3 L. Spec. 290. — G*;rtn. Fruct. ii. 96. — DC. ^ L. Spec. 648. — jAca. Amer. i. t. 181. — DC. 



Frodr. ii. 63, n. 1. — Tukp. in Diet. So. Nat. Prodr. ii. 62, n. 1. — ^A. S. H. in Arch. Bot. i. 



Atl. t. 262.— Mbk. et Del. Diet. Mat MM. iv. 269. — Gem. op. cit. iii. 452. — Lindl. Fl. Med. 



216. GuiB. op. cit. iii. 493. — Linm.. Veg. 282. — Mer. et Del. Diet. Mat. Med. i. 274. — 



Kingd. 466 ; Fl. Med. 281. — A. Rich. Elem. ed. March. Anacard. 141. — H. Bn. in Diet. Encycl. 



4 ii. 342. RosENTH. op. cit. 854. — H. Bn, in Se. Med. iy. 51. — Casstmium pomiferum'LKWK. — 



Diet. Encycl. Sc. M£d. ser. 2, iv. 506 {Mango, Aeajiiba occidentalis Gtertn. {Anacarde, Acajou 



M. cuUivi, Apricot of Saint-Domingo). d, fruits, A. d pcmmes). 



