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Oommerce.—Mocha-ras_ or Supari-ka-phil* is collected by 
Bheels and other wild tribes. It is sold by all the druggists. 
Value, Rs. 4 per Surat maund of 374 lbs, The gum of — 
Moringa is frequently mixed with Mocha-ras; though similar” : 
in colour, it may readily ‘be distinguished by its weight and 
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ADANSONIA DIGITATA, Linn, + 
__ Fig.—Cav. Diss. v., 298, t. 15. Monkey Bread tree (Hag-)) 
Calebassier (Fr.) 3 ae ; 
Hab.—Africa, Cultivated in India. Thé fruit, bark and 9 
leaves, ; ? 4 
chinch (Mar.), Papparappuli, Anaipuliya-maram (Lam), 
“Sumpura (Guz). ~ . _— fe a 
-History, Uses, &c.—This tree, remarkable for the 
enormons size of its trunk, was first described by Aloy sas 
_ Cadamosto, a Venetian, in 1454, from one he saw growing ee 
the month of the Senegal river, which measured 112 feet im 
circumference. At Senegal it:is called El-omarah and Onf, 
_ and the fruit El-kongles. Prosper Alpinus figures it, and y 
_ notices that the powdered pulp was sold as Terra Lemna ee 
_ those unacquainted with*the genuine article ; it was ~~ a 
_ with sugar as a cooling medicine in febrile disorders. (for 0” ° 
account of Terra Eemnia, see P. Bellonius, Obs. I., 28-) At ae ‘™ 
present time the pulp is a -component of certain pastiles 2 
famous in Turkey, and supposed to contain’ this earth. 
' Adanson, whose namé the genus bears, and who travelled in 4 
: Senegal in 1794, saw two-trees, from 5 to 6 feet in diametet, 
BES OS EnOeeb ate sl at a 
* Supari is the fruit of Areca Catechu, but children masticate instead ft. % 
_, i the blunt thorns of B. malabaricum, to which they give the name of a 
‘ sige In this way the gum has come to be called Supdri-ka-phwl, wink a7 
__ has misled some into supposing Mocha-ras tobe the produce of the Aree - 
