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trees require but a little attention and watering during the first two or three 

 years in the dry season, and being of so great use, we have here whole planta- 

 tions of them on high and sandy grounds, where no other fruit tree will grow. 



12. We may still add, thafc the owls, squirrels, lizards, country dogs and 

 jackals, take a share in the flowers, but the report is that the latter, espe- 

 cially in the time of blossom, are apt to grow mad by too much feeding on 

 them. (Roxburgh's Flora Indica pp. 410-411 Clarke's edition). 



The kernels of B. latifolia yield to solvents 41 to 46 per cent, of a yellowish 

 fat melting at 24°— 30°, and those of B. longifolia contain 54 per cent, or more. 

 The acid values sometimes reach 70. The constants are : Specific gravity at 

 100 c , 0'86 ; to 0*88 ; saponification value, 186—194 ; iodine value, 58 to 64 ; 

 Reichert-Meissl value, 1*6 to 1*7. Fatty acids, 93*7 to 94*9 per cent., melting 

 at 42° to 48° ; unsaponifiable matter, 1*4 to 2*2 per cent. The oil consists of 

 olein and palmitin and probably stearin. 



723. B. butyraeea, Roxb., h.f.b.l, hi. 546 ; 



Roxb. 411. 



Vern. :— Chiiira, chaiura, bhulel (Kumaun) ; Cheuli (Oudh); 

 Phalwara (Hind.); Churi (Nepal) ; Yet, yelpote (Lepcha). 



Eng. :— Indian Butter tree. 



Habitat: — Sub-tropical Himalaya, from Kumaun to Bliotan. 



A large deciduous tree, attaining 70ft. height, usually with a 

 short trunk and rounded crown. Bractlets, petioles, under- 

 side of leaves, stipules and pedicels, with fine silkly hairs. 

 Bark fin thick, dark-grey. Wood light brown, bard. Leaves 

 13 by 6in., or smaller, firm, crowded near ends of branches, 

 obovate, or obovate-oblong, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, sub-obtuse, 

 base rhomboid, glabrous when mature or fLocculose beneath ; 

 primary nerves 15-20 pairs. Petiole l-ljin., stipules Jin., ovate- 

 lanceolate, caducous. Pedicels l-2in., very many, crowded 

 among the subterminal leaves. Flowers in dense clusters at the 

 ends of branches, drooping, tomentose. Calyx coriaceous, segments 

 4 or 5, l-Jin. ovate, densely rusty tomentose inside. Corolla 

 fin. long, creamcoloured, fleshy, sweet, early caducous ; lobes 

 8-10, spreading, short, erect. Stamens 30-40. says 0. B. 

 Clarke ; 24-26, says Brandis ; inserted at the mouth of the corolla 

 tube ; filaments glabrous, as long as the anthers. Anthers 



