N. 0. CONIFERS. 
1235 
long, diam. 4-5in. ; peduncle Tin. Scales broad ; beak stout, 
recurved, obtusely triangular. Seeds irregularly cylindrical in. 
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 307 per cent, of a very viscous, greenish-yellow oil. 
Grimme (19U) obtained the following constants : Specific gravity at. 15°, 
0 9807 ; solidifying point — 17°; acid value, 1-6; saponification value, 191-8 ; 
iodine value (Wijs), 118-3. Fatty acids, 91’46; unsapouiflable matter, 1-64; 
melting point, 0° ; solididying point— 3° ; iodine value (Wijs), 125-0 ; neutralisa- 
tion value, 190 7 ; mean molecular weight, 285 2. 
1222. Cedrus Libani, Barrel , var. Deodara, 
Hook., H.F.B.i., v. 653. 
Syn. : — Pinus deodara, Roxb. 677. 
Sans. : — Devadaru, Sarala. 
Vern. : — Deodar (H. ) ; Dewdar, geyar, kelu, pallor, dadn 
(Pb.) ; Devadaru (B.) ; Devdar, vanseo-deodar (Guz.) ; Devadarfl 
(Mar.); Devaditru-chedi (Tam.); Devaduri-chettu (Tel.) ; Devata- 
ram (Mai.) ; Devadnri-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 tho 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 
