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L. TEREBINTHACE^. 



1. ODIN A, Roxb. 



1. WoDiEE, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 393,— A large tree; leaves 

 unequally pinnated ; leaflets 3 to 4 pair, subsessile oblong-oyate 

 acuminated, glabrous, entire, paler beneath ; racemes terminal 

 fascicled, pendulous ; flowers very small, purple ; fruit kidney- 

 shaped, size of a french-bean, when ripe, red. Very common. 

 Native name " Shimtee." Royle lUust. t. 31, fig 2. A quantity 

 of gum exudes from the trunk, used by the natives as a medicinal 

 plaster in Ceylon, 



2. HOLIGARNA, Roxb. 



1. H LoNGiFOLiA, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 80. — A tree; leaves 

 petioled alternate, cuneate oblong, acute or acuminated entire, 

 glabrous when old ; petioles with a subulate soft deciduous process 

 on each side about the middle ; panicles terminal and axillary ; fruit 

 inferior, oval ; pericarp thick, containing between its laminae cells 

 full of thick acrid juice, used in Malabar as a varnish. Roxb. 

 Cor. t, 282. Canarese name " Hoolgeree." 



3. GLYCYCARPUS, Dalz. 



1. G Racemosus, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, p 39. — A small 

 polygamous tree ; leaves alternate petioled, simple oblong entire ; 

 jjetiole naked ; flowers racemose, small,white; petals 4, oblong linear ; 

 stamens 4; drupe size of a cherry, transversely oblong; seed one, 

 large, covered with a sweet eatable pulp ; colytedons deeply plano- 

 convex. The Ghauts. Syn. Holigarna racemosa, Roxb. Fl Ind. ; 

 Pegia colebrookiana, Wight Ic. t. 236 ; the female plant. ; Syn. 

 H racemosa, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 82. Native name " Amberee." 



4. MANGIFERA, Linn. 



I. M Indica, Linn. Spr. syst. i, p 17. — A tree with a splendid 

 coma, thick and umbrageous in the wild state ; leaves lanceolate 

 acuminated, glabrous, shining, coriaceous ; panicle terminal, much- 

 branched ; flowers small, white ; drupe obliquely oblong, or slight- 

 ly reniform ; nut compressed, woody, 2-valved ; valves grooved and 

 covered with fibrous filaments. From this tree, so well known, 

 there issues a soft, reddish-brown gum resin like bdellium, dissolv- 

 ing entirely in alchohol, and in a great measure in water. DC. Piod. 

 2, 63 ; Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 641 ; Rheed. Mai. iv, t. 1 and 2 ; Tussac 

 flore desantilles ii 57, t. 15 ; Rumph. Amb. t. 25, 61 ? M. domes- 

 tica, Gaert. A singular variety, with double and triple fruit, is to 



