N. 0. SAPOTACEffi. 
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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, that the owls, squirrels, lizards, country dogs and 
jaokals, 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°— 80°, and those of B. longifolia contain 54 per cent, or more. 
The acid values sometimes reach 70. The constants are : Specific gravity at 
100', 0'86 ; to 0'88 ; saponification value, 186—194 ; iodine value, 58 to 64 ; 
Reichert-Meissl value, 16 to 1'7. Fatty acids, 93'7 to 94 9 per cent., melting 
at 42° to 48°; nnsaponi liable matter, 1*4 to 2 2 per cent. The oil consists of 
olein and palmitin and probably stearin. 
723. B. butyracea, Roxb., h.f.b.i., hi. 546 ; 
Roxb. 411. 
V ern. : — Chiura, chaiura, bhulel (Kumaun); Cheuli (Oudh); 
Phalwara (Hind.); Chfiri (Nepal) ; Yet, yelpote (Lepcba). 
Eng. Indian Butter tree. 
Habitat : — Sub-tropical Himalaya, from Kumaun to Bhotan. 
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 sllkly hairs. 
Bark £in thick, dark-grey. Wood light brown, hard. 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 1-lJin., stipules gin., ovate- 
lanceolate, caducous. Pedicels I-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, i $in. ovate, densely rusty tomentose inside. Corolla 
•Jin. long, creamcoloured, flesh}, sweet, early caducous ; lobes 
8-10, spreading, short, erect. Stamens 30-40. says C. B. 
Clarke ; 24-26, says Brandis ; inserted at the mouth of the corolla 
tube ; filaments glabrous, as long as the anthers. Anthers 
