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purposes; much larger ones are often made. The smallest utensil is a 
rough model of a Fogaréiro, or chafing-dish, such as is to be seen in 
nearly every house in the country: over this the panelas, etc., are 
heated.” 
Ord. OLACINEH. Orax FAMILY. 
Wood of Ximenia Americana, L. Tropical America and India. Used 
as a substitute for sandal-wood. The flowers are very fragrant, smelling 
like Cloves, a circumstance not noticed by Roxburgh. (J. S. Law, Esq.) 
Ord. AURANTIACEE. ORANGE FAMILY. 
All are familiar with the Orange-tree, type of this family, but few 
are aware that every part of the plant, the leaves, and even the petals 
more conspicuously, are filled with little transparent receptacles of 
volatile oil, best seen when held up between the eye and the light: 
hence the fragrance of these plants. The skin of the Orange, if strongly 
and suddenly pressed with the finger and thumb, sends out a little jet 
of essential oil, which takes fire on coming in contact with flame. The 
plants belonging to the Order are trees or shrubs, almost exclusively 
tropical and Indian; but the species and varieties of the Orange are 
now cultivated wherever a climate is found suited to them, and they 
are exported from the West as well as the East Indies. The wood is 
hard and compact; the pulp of the fruit more or less acid; the flowers — — 
often powerfully fragrant. The berries of Glycosmis citrifolia are said 
to be delicious, and those of Triphasia trifoliata very agreeable. Ber- 
gera Kinigit and Feronia elephantum are employed medicinally by the 
Hindoos; the latter yields a gum resembling Gum Arabic, and the - 
leaves are powerfully fragrant. Oil of Neroli and Napha-water are — 
delicious perfumes distilled from Orange-flowers ; and Cedrati, a variety 
of the Lime, is another agreeable perfume. 
Wampee Fruit. Coohia punctata, Retz. China and Molucca. Cul- 
tivated in the West Indies. (Mr. N. Wilson.) Dr. M‘Fadyen says, “ 
deserves to be more generally cultivated on account of the fruit, whic 
is produced in clusters the size, and have a good deal the taste, 
the Grape, accompanied with a peculiar flavour, being very’ greet 
the palate." 
Fruits of Feronia elephantum, Corr. East Indies. (Dr. Hooker). 
am not aware whether these are bronhi to table as dessert. The ae 
