CATECHU ACACIA.
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c casionally unarmed. Young shoots, petioles, and peduncles more or lessto j- esccn ^ Leaves bipinnated ; pinnae ten to thirty pairs; leaflets thirtypairs; petiole sometimes armed on the under side with a row ofJ. es > with one large gland below the lowest pair of pinnae, and bc-^ een the extreme one to six pairs. Spikes axillary, one to four toge-b shorter than the leaves. Flowers numerous. Petals united. Stamens ls «nct, numerous. Legumes flat, thin, straight, linear, glabrous, four to'Sm-seeded (Wight and Arnott).
re e from fifteen to twenty feet high. Bark brown and scabrous,hi °°f- ^ ai( ^ a,R l heavy ; the interior ( duramen ) brown, dark-red, or, , ?* ls h; the exterior ( alburnum ) white, one or two inches thick.
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anufacture of Catechu. —The manufacture of Catechu from the
hv At* 0 ^ a ^ €c ^ u i 'As practised in Canara and Behar, has been describedjj' , r - Kerr {Med. Observ. and Inq. vol. v. p. 151) and Dr. F. Buchananv f n )ij ton {Jowrn. from Madras through Mysore , Canara, and Malabar,pr 0 ' '**' P‘ 11807), while Dr. Hoyle {Illustr. p. 182) has explained theRemf 8 * 5 flowed in Northern India . According to the last-mentionedcoi erna n, “ the Kutt manufacturers move to different parts of theS( ,j e ll O- in different seasons, erect temporary huts in the jungles, andTj. ctln 8 trees fit for their purpose, cut the inner wood into small chips.j 0fr Se they put into small earthen pots, which are arranged in a double0 , ui] alo, >g a fire-place built of mud ( choola) ; water is then poured inHvy dlu "'hole are covered; after a considerable portion has boileda fp 1 '"? dle c ^ ear liquor is strained into one of the neighbouring pots, andsupply of material is put into the first, and the operation repeatedPoi * ex tract in the general receiver is of sufficient consistence to be
' n ^° day moulds, which, in the Ivheree Pass and Doon, where Itech S - Gen IPc process, are generally of a quadrangular form. This Ca-b est U ls usually of a pale-red colour, and is considered there to be of theatl d V} Vla %. By the manufacturers it is conveyed to SaharunporeO ari ^A ora dab a d, whence it follows the course of commerce down theCal c ^° S ’ au d meets that from Nepal , so that both may be exported from
a Pplf S ? RlPTl0N '—I ! 10 term Catechu (from cate a tree, and elm juice) is^°Uri ' severa l astringent extracts imported from India and the neigh-be the^« C ° Uri *' r ’ es ' 1° the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia catechu is said toCut ec j ^met of the wood of Acacia Catechu, of the kernels of ArecaPl'ffits^' and dlc l eaves of Uncaria Gambler, probably too from other'v ere ‘ A few years ago the terms Catechu, Terra japonica, and Cutch,hseq ^Ployed synonymously ; they are now, however, for the most part,Se ns e £ ade somewhat distinctively, though not unifonnly in the same'°. kinds only are largely imported into this country; one ofd ' r acl e i arn ^ er ; Terra japonica of tanners; Pale Terra japonica of thec ari a p ilst > the Catechu in square cakes of Druggists ; Catechu of Un-°th er Ph. Ed.) has been already described (sec p. 1025): the
te chu 0 lnd ’ termed Pegu Catechu or P. Cutch, is, as well as Colombo Ca-l.ist, j Colombo Cutch, denominated Black Terra japonica in the TradeCo/,,., have not hitherto been enabled tn identifv the. catechu of Areca
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1839
not hitherto been enabled to identify the catechu of Arecaore referred to (see p. 615).the total quantity of Catechu or4 E
Terra japonica (of all sorts)