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serves are also made. Tlie nut also contains an acrid, irritant, caustic 

 juice, cleansing eruptions and ulcers, and employed as odontalgic 

 and antisyphilitic. The embryo is oily and edible. >S'. Forsteni Bl. 

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

 Holigarna racemosa'^ of India, the receptacular portion is elevated 

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

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

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

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

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

 Spanish Plums, frequently given fco them. The sarcoearp is sweetish, 

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

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

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

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

 Apple of Cythersea 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 diarrhoea. 

 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 

 purposes as that of the Acacias. The Sclerocarya cafra^ and Birrcea'' 

 also have sweetish drupes from which fermented drinks are made. 

 In the Buchanania the embryo is eaten ; those of the B. angustifolia ^ 



1 EoxE. PL Coromcmd. iii. t. 282 ; M. Ind. ii. theraa duleis Wight et Ajrn. — Foupartia Mangi- 

 80. — DO. Frodr. ii. 63. — Lindl. Fl. Med. 282. fera Bl. — P. duleis Bl. — Evia amara Oommerb. 

 — EosENTH. op. cit. 853.' — Mangifera raeemosa — E. dulcis^Zj. — AmbalamTiwE^T>. JSort. Malab. 

 Lamk. III. ii. 113. i. t. 50 {Amra, Evy, Vy, Monbin de Malabar, 



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



March. Anacard. 24, 151. — S. Myrabalanm L. * L. Spec. 613. — March. Anacard. 24, 151. — 



8i,st. 357 (nee jAca.). — S. Mombin Jacq. Amer. 8. Mombiu L. (iiec Jacq.). — S. Myrobalcmus 



378 (nee L.). — S. graveolens Maop. Jam. i. 228. Jaco. (necL.). — 8. OimwllaTviS. {Sambousian, 



— 8. awantiaea Schum. et Thonn. Seskr. 226. Bastard Mombin, Plum-tree). 

 —8. psevdo-myrobalamus Tcss. PI. Ant. iv. 97. * " Gum Sycaya, G. Bucare." 



t. 33. — S. Microcarpa A. Eich. Fl. Sen. Tent. " Sond. in Linnaa, xxiii. 26 ; Fl. Cap. i. 525. 



i. 151, t. 40.— jS. dubia A. Eich. loc. cit. 153. — — March. Anacard. 150 (vulg. Jacoa). 

 8. Zanzee Don. Gen. Syst. ii. 79 {Hobo, Caja ; '< Hochst. in Flora, xxvii. (1844), Bcs. Beil. 



Piapia-vy, Tapan-Taponoi the TahiUana). 1.— Walp. Bep. v. 418.— March. Zoc. cit. 30 ; 



' FoEST. Prodr. 198. — Eosenth. op. cit. 858. 150. — Spondias Birraa A. Eich. Fl. Sen. Tent. 



— March. Anacard. 25, 151. — S. Cythercea i. 152, t. 41.— Eosenth. op. cit. 858 {Birr). Oil 



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

 III. t. 384— Gjsrtn. Fruct. ii. 101, t. 133.— A ^ Eoxb. Cat. Gale. 32.— DO. Frodr. ii. 64, n. 



paniculata Eoxb. — f 8. acuminata Eoxb.— jS'. 2.— Mangifera axillaris JiAhk..— Spondias sim- 



MangiferaVv&s. Syn. i. 609.— Lindl. J'/. Med. pUeifolia 'Roiih. — LundiamangiferoidesVwR. 

 164.— 5. Amara Lamk. Diet. iv. 261, n. i.—Gy- 



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