N. O. CONIFERS. 1235 



long, diam. 4-oi 11. ; peduncle lia. Scales broad ; beak stout, 

 recurved, obtusely triangular. Seeds irregularly cylindric, lin. 

 long, oily, edible ; wing short, caducous. 



Uses : — The seeds are considered anodyne and stimulant. 

 The oil extracted from them is highly esteemed for its stimulat- 

 ing and healing powers when applied as a dressing to wounds, 

 ulcers, etc. It is also said by Stewart to be employed as an 

 external application in diseases of the head. (Watt.) 



The seeds yield 30*7 per cent, of a very viscous, greenish-yellow oil. 

 Grirame (1911) obtained the following constants : Specific gravity at 15°, 

 9307 ; solidifying point— 17°; acid value, 1*6; saponification value, 19L'S ; 

 iodine value (Wijs), 118*3. Patty acids, 91*46; unsaponifiable matter, 1*64; 

 melting point, 0° ; solididying point— 3° ; iodine value (Wijs), 125*0 ; neutralisa- 

 tion value, 196*7 ; mean molecular weight, 285*2. 



1222. Cedrus Libani, Barrel, var. Deodara, 

 Hook., h.f.b.i., v. 653. 



Syn. : — Pinus deodara, Roxb. 677. 



Saiis. : — Devadaru, Sarala. 



Vevn. : — Deodar (H.); Dewdar, geyar, kelu, pallur, dada 

 (Pb.) ; Devadaru (B.) ; Devdar, vanseo-deodar (Guz.) ; Devadaru 

 (Mar.); Devadaru-chedi (Tarn.); Devadari-chettu (Tel.) ; Devata- 

 ram (Mai.) ; Devadari-mara (Kan.). 



Eng. : — Deodar, Himalayan Cedar. 



Habitat: — N.-W. Himalaya, from Kumaon westwards. 



A horizontal-branched tree, leader and young branchlets 

 pendulous or drooping. Bark brown with a whitish lustre. 

 Branchlets somewhat tuberculose from the persistent bases of 

 the fasciculi of leaves. Leaves growing on branches in tufts 

 20-60 in number. Young twigs have no tufts, but solitary. 

 Each tuft may be called an arrested bud ; young leaves light- 

 green and glaucous, and dark- green as they become older, 

 triquetral (midrib being prominent on the inner side and 

 rounded on the back) stiff, perennial, |-2in. long, acicular, acute ; 

 stomata about 4 rows of each side of the inner side, and one or 

 two lines of stomata as sometimes only a few irregular scattered 

 stomata on the rounded or outer side. Male catkins numerous, 

 solitary at first, oblong, oval and obtuse, afterwards more 



