Flora Indica; Or, Descriptions of Indian Plants, Band 21832 |
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acuminate acute Anthers apex attached axillary axills bark base Beng Bengal Berry bifarious bipinnate blossoms Botanic garden Bractes branches branchlets broad Calyx Calyx five-leaved Capsule cell Chittagong colour cordate Corol Corymbs Cotyledons downy Drupe eight Embryo inverse entire erect exterior feet Filaments five-toothed fleshy Flowers numerous four fruit garden at Calcutta Germ superior glands globular hairy hermaphrodite hot season inserted Integuments lanceolar lanceolate leaflets Leaves alternate Leaves opposite Legume length linear lobes margins native Nectary oblong obtuse one-celled one-flowered one-seeded oval ovate ovula pair Panicles terminal pedicelled Peduncles perisperm Petals Petals five Petioles pinnate plant Racemes Radicle ramous receptacle recurved Rheed round Rumph scandent Schreb seed ripens Seed solitary segments serrate sessile short short-petioled shorter Shrubby sides Silhet six inches long smooth species Spikes Stamens stamina Stem Stigma Stipules Style subulate Teling ternate thick three-celled tree Trunk tube two-lobed Umbels villous Willd yellow young shoots
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Seite 617 - ... object. The Camphor is procured in pretty nearly the same way. The trees are cut to the heart about the same height from the ground as in the former instance, till the Camphor is seen; hundreds may be thus mutilated before the sought-for tree is discovered ; when attained, it is felled, and cut in junks, of a fathom long, which are again split, and the Camphor is found in the heart, occupying a space in circumference, of the thickness of a man's arm. The produce of a middling sized tree is about...
Seite 423 - There can be little doubt that this is the tree which ' furnishes the real Calambac or Agallochum of the ancients, and there seems ' more reason to think that it was carried to China from our eastern frontier than ' to suppose it was carried from Cochin China or any other country in the vicinity 'of China, where it has always been in great demand. Small quantities are ' sometimes imported into Calcutta by sea from the eastward ; but such is always ' deemed inferior to that of Sylhet.
Seite 502 - This elegant very ramous bushy shrub has been received from China, into our gardens in Bengal, where it blossoms in February, immediately after which the luxurious foliage expands, and the fruit, which is about the size of the common plum, and nearly as palatable, ripens in May and June. "Trunk in our young cultivated trees, or rather shrubs, very short, soon dividing into numerous branches and branchlets in all directions from diverging to erect. Bark on all smooth. Leaves alternate, in the bud...
Seite 613 - ... the wound is charred, soon after which the liquid begins to ooze out. A small gutter is cut in the wood to conduct the liquid into a vessel placed to receive it. The average produce of the best trees during the season, is said to be sometimes...
Seite 580 - Joixarra, whence he alone wears a chaplet of Bilva flowers ; to him only the Hindus offer them ; and when they see any of them fallen on the ground, they take them up with reverence and carry them to his temple.
Seite 502 - The varieties of this species, which is our common of the stamina. Stigma large. Drupe cordate, with an obtuse rising at the apex, the size of the common plum, and of the same purple colour, covered with a similar bloom, grooved on one side. Pulp in large quantity, of a pale reddish yellow. Seed single, conform to the nut. Integument single. Perisperm a thin covering on one side only. Embryo inverse. Cotyledons unequal, the small one doubled, and embraced by the larger, subequitant.
Seite 626 - The fleshy part of the fruit which covers the seeds and their proper juicy envelope, or aril, is, in large quantity, of a firm texture and of a very sharp, pleasant, acid taste. It is used by the natives in their curries and for acidulating water.
Seite 617 - The method of extracting the oil is merely by making a deep incision with a billiong or Malay axe, in the tree, about fourteen or eighteen feet from the ground till near the heart, where a deeper incision is made with a small aperture ; and the oil, if any in the tree, immediately gushes out, and is received in bamboos, or any other utensil better approved of; in this manner, a party proceeds through the woods wounding the camphor-trees till they attain their object.
Seite 616 - Camphor: the distinction may have arisen from the peculiar favour of fortune to some individuals over others as in most other circumstances of life, from whence they have acquired a celebrity, otherwise they could give some rational explanation of their superior success. Both Oil and Camphor are found in the heart of the tree, occupying a vacuum, which, in...
Seite 613 - It is found necessary, every three or four weeks, to cut off the old charred surface, and burn' it afresh ; in large healthy trees abounding in balsam, they even cut a second notch in some other part of the tree, and char it as the first. These operations are performed during the months of November, December, January, and February. Should any of the trees appear sickly the following season, one or two more years