596 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE ASD PRODUCTIONS. 



Calyx small. Berries globular, sweet or acid, the skin usually thin. 



The fruits of this genus are the most wholesome and refreshing which we know, 

 their therapeutic value depending on the presence of salts of potash, and contain bitter 

 and aromatic principles, chiefly lodged in the rind. The juice of several varieties of 

 lime is of immense value both as preventing and curing that formidable disease, 

 scurvy, which is by no means (as some suppose) confined to the sea-faring classes, and 

 is accompanied by a defieiency of potash salts in the blood. Lime-juice is also used 

 by tlie Burmese for the cure of bilious diarrhcca, and in some cases of dysentery 

 (probably complicated by a scorbutic taint) lime juice is of service. In rheumatism 

 and rheumatic gout, and the sickness of pregnancy, lime-juice is of great value; and 

 the rind of both sweet and bitter oranges forms a most wholesome preserve, and yields 

 an infusion which is a valuable adjunct to other tonics. 



Orange-flower water is distilled from the flowers of the Seville orange ( C. com- 

 munis), which by the same process yield the volatile oil called " Essence of Xeroli," 

 and the rind gives the peculiar flavour to Cura^oa. Bergamot is an essence expressed 

 from the rind of a species of lemon. 



f f Jlhnl of hernj icooJi/. Leaves comjioinid ■ Trees. 



FicuoN'iA, Currea da Scrra. 



Oranj 5-6-cellod. Leaves pinnate. 



F. ELEPHAJs'iUM, Corr. Prome. 



' Thi ' (though Karz gives ' J/aJiaii '). Yields a gum. 



JEgle, Correa da Scrra. 



Ovary 8- to many-celled. Leaves trifoliolate. 



*^. (Crat.eva) maehelos, L. 



Ok-shyt or U-shyt. Baol of Hindustan. 



Much cultivated, especially in the Prome district, and said to occur wild in the 

 forests also : I found the tree in those of the Toukyeghat, east of Toung-ngoo (Kurz). 



The ripe fruit is very fragrant, and forms a mucilaginous ' sherbet,' much 

 esteemed for its mildly astringent properties ; it is however of small medicinal value. 



Order GERANIACE^. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, regular or irregular. Sepals 5, rarely 4 or 2, free or 

 connate to the middle, imbricate or rarely valvate. Petals as many or fewer, rarely 

 none, hy])ogyuous or almost perigynous, variously imbricate. Torus scarcely expanded 

 into a disk, with glands, alternating with the petals, or without glands, raised in the 

 centre into a beak, rarelv flat. Stamens as many as the sepals, or 2 or 3 tiiiies as 

 many ; rarely fewer. Filaments free, or connate in a ring. Anthers 2-celled, the 

 cells opening lengthwise. Fruit a capsule, dry, and the valves separating from the 

 axis ; or fleshy and elastically dehiscing ; rarely a cb'upe or berry. Herbs or shrubs, 

 rarely trees. Flowers various, often thorny. 



OXALIUIE^E. 

 Flowers rei/ular. Sepals imbricate. Glands none. Slii/mas capitate. Ovary- 

 cells with 2 or mure ovules. 



'■•' Capsule dnj or nearhj so, dehiscent. Herbs. 

 OsALis, Linumts. 

 Stamens 10. Tr/yw^/c dehiscing loculicidally, the valves cohering with the axis. 

 Leaves usually digitately eonipoun<l. 



