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long, diam. 4-oi 11. ; peduncle lin. 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 stimulating 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. Grimme (1911) obtained the following constants : Specific gravity at 15°, 0.9307 ; solidifying point— 17°; acid value, 1.6; saponification value, 191.3 ; iodine value (Wijs), 118.3. Patty acids, 91.46; unsaponifiable matter, 1.64; melting point, 0° ; solididying point— 3° ; iodine value (Wijs), 125.0 ; neutralisation 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.
Sans. : — Devadâru, Sarala.
Vern. : — Deodar (H.); Dewdar, geyâr, kelu, pallur, dadâ (Pb.) ; Devadâru (B.) ; Devdâr, vânseo-deodar (Guz.) ; Devadârû (Mar.); Devadâru-chedi (Tam.); Devadâri-chettu (Tel.) ; Devatâ-ram (Mal.) ; Devadâri-marâ (Kan.).
Eng. : — Deodâr, Himâlayan 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, ½-2in. 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