Ximenia. . OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 253. 
small, many of them male. Calyx below, small, generally 
four-toothed, though sometimes five-toothed. Petals four 
or five, corresponding with the number of toothlets in the 
calyx, oblong, campanulate, with the upper half revolute, 
very hairy on the inside. Filaments from eight to ten, erect, 
short. Anthers linear, erect. Germ superior, conical. 
Style tapering, the length of the filaments. Stigma simple, 
Drupe oval, size of a nutmeg, pulpy, red, smooth, one- 
celled. Nut solitary, of the same shape as the drupe, not 
very hard. The ripe fruits are eaten raw by the natives ; 
their taste is a compound of sour and bitter.. The kernels 
are also eaten, and taste much like fresh filberts. The 
wood is yellow, like sandal, and its powder is often sub- 
stituted for that of sandal by the brahmuns on this part of 
the coast in their religious ceremonies. 
2. X. egyptiaca. Jussieu. genera. p. 288. 
Thorny. Leaves binate. Flowers decandrous. Drupe to. 
rose. 
Hind. Hingen. 
Teling. Garee. 
In the Memoirs sur L’Egypt, is a paper on this plant, 
by M. A. Dehile, where he says the fruit passes in Egypt 
_ for Chebulic myrobalans. 
‘This seems to me a new genus rather than a species of 
Ximenia. It is an hostile-looking, small tree, or large 
shrab, grows on the most inhospitable, dry, barren, un- 
cultivated places in the Circars. Flowering in May. © 
‘Trunk erect; bark ash-coloured, crooked. Branches 
few, erect, with extremities spreading, and often droop- 
ing. Thorns axillary, single, large, strong, very sharp, 
frequently leaf and flower-bearing. Leaves scattered, pe- 
tioled, binate. Leaflets short-petiolated, from oval to 
oblong, smooth, shining, when young downy; about an 
inch and a half long, and three quarters broad. P eduncle es 
