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shining, and are powdered and applied to wounds, and with 
‘butter to abscesses to promote suppuration, the root in decoe- 
tion is given in gonorrhoea and lithiasis.” 
Averrhoa Carambola, Linn.,and A. Bilimbi, Linn., 
Rheede, Hort. Mal. tii., 43, 44, 45, are cultivated throughout 
the hotter parts of India, on account of their acid fruits. 
Their native country is uncertain, but some suppose them to 
have been brought from the Moluccas by the Portuguese, who 
_ call them Carambola and Bilimbinos. Like some others of the 
Geraniacez, their leaves are sénsitive ; their fruits are much used 
by the natives of India as an acid taatable, and by Huropeans 
as a tart fruit and preserve. They contain much acid 
potassium oxalate and are used to remove iron moulds. A 
syrup of the fruit anda conserve of the flowers are used by 
the natives as a cooling medicine in fever. A. Carambola has 
a yellow angular fruit about the size of a hen’s egg ; there are 
two varieties, sweet and sour. <A. Bilimbi produces 4 
yellowish-green fruit with five rounded lobes about the size of a 
eee whence the English name Cucumber-tree. 
GERANIUM NEPALENSE, Suveet. 
Fig.— Wight Ill. i., 158, #. 59. 
Hab.—Temperate Himalaya, Nilgiris, Ceylon. 
- Vernacular.—Bhanda (Hind.). 
GERANIUM OCELLATUM, Camb. 
Fig.—Royle, Ill. 149, 150. 
Hab.—Sub-tropical oe Behar, on Parisnath. 
, Vernacular.—Bhinda (Hind.). 
GERANIUM WALLICHIANUM, Sweet. 
- Fig.— Wight k. t. 824. 
Vernacular. —Mimirén (Afghan.), 
‘Hab. —Temperate Himalaya, Kuram Valley, Afghanistan. we 
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