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ERYTHROXYLON INDICUM. (Nat. order Linese.) 



ERYTHROXYLON, Linn. Benth and Hoolc. Gen. PI. p. 283. — Sepals 5, rarely 6, united into a lobed calyx or free, petals as many with a 

 2 lobed appendage iuside below the lamina. Stamens 10, rarely 12, the basal tube short without glands, or more or less thickened into 10 glands, the fila- 

 ments attached inside just below the crenulate top, ovary 3 rarely 4 celled with 1 or rarely 2 ovules in each cell, drupe usually 1 seeded, albumen copious 

 or thin or none, styles 3 rarely i free, or more or less connate. Trees or shrubs, leaves entire, stipules united into 1 with the petiole deciduous or persis- 

 tent, especially on the leafless base of the young shoots ; flowers small whitish, solitary or clustered in the axils of the leaves or of leafless stipules. 

 L. Gen. n. 575. Steudelia, Spreng. Sethia, Kunfh. 



ERYTHROXYLON InDICUM. (DC) A small tree, leaves alternate obovate or oblong obtuse cuneate at the base, 

 feather nerved reticulated with veins, under side pale, 1-1J inches long, by about £ an inch broad, pedicels axillary 1-3 about twice as 

 long as the petiole, 1 flowered, calyx 5 lobed, styles 3 combiued nearly to the apex longer than the stamens, stigmas clavate, drupe oblong 

 triangular 3 celled, 2 of the cells small abortive. Sethia Indica> DG. Prod. 1 p. 576. Erythroxylon, monogynum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 2 p. 449. 



This small tree is common throughout the Madras Presidency ; the timber is flesh colored and excellent, but of small size; the tree is 

 known as the bastard Sandal, and is called Devadaru in Tamil ; the wood is used as a substitute for Sandal-wood, and an empyreumatic oil or 

 wood-tar, of a reddish brown color, is procured from it, which is used for preserving the wood employed in the construction of native boats. 



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