BUCHANANIA LATIFOLIA. (Nat. order Anacardiacefe.) 



BUCHANANIA, Roxb.— GEN. CHAE. Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx short, obtusely 3 to 5-toothed. Petals 5, imbricate in the bud. 

 Disk orbicular, crenate. Stamens 10, inserted round the disk. Gynscium of 5 or 6 distinct carpels, of which oue only perfect, the others rudimentary 

 and style-like ; style of the perfect one short, with a truncate stigma ; ovule suspended from an erect filiform funicle. Drupe small, the putamen crusta- 

 ceous or bony, 2-valved. Seed with thick cotyledons and a superior radicle. Trees, leaves alternate, simple, entire coriaceous. Flowers small, white, 

 in terminal or axillary panicles. — Coniogeton, Blume Bijdr. 1156. Cambes3edea, Kunth. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ii. 366. 



BUCHANANIA LATIFOLIA. (Roxb.) A good sized tree, trunk straight and often of considerable height, branches 

 numerous spreading in every direction, leaves broadly oval to obovate very obtuse or emarginate, glabrous or subglabrous above, hirsute 

 •with rather matted hairs beneath, 6-7 inches long by 3-4 broad, petioles 6-10 lines loDg, panicles tenaiual and from the upper axils 

 hirsute erect much branched, bractes small caducous, flowers numerous small whitish green, structure as in the genus ; drupe size of 

 a cherry a, little compressed smooth and black when ripe. Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 385. 



A very comynon tree in most subalpine jungles in this Presidency both on the eastern and vjestem side, and ascending the mountains to 

 nearly 4000 feet eleoation ; it is also found in Bengal and Birmah, it flowers in December and January, and ripens its fruit in May. The latter is 

 eaten by the natives, and the kernels are also eaten and used in confectionary and they abound in oil. It is called Chironji in Hindustan, Kit mad 

 and Aimd in Tamil, Chara and Chinnamoral in Teligu,Nuskulin Canarese, Pyal and Char 61% in the Bombay Presidency, anol Charu at Cuttack ; 

 the wood is rather tough and used by the natives for bullock yokes and other purposes and for charcoal, a cubic foot seasoned weighs 36 lbs ; the bark 

 is used by tanners. 



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