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Mentions it, Rheede in his Hort, Malab.. (Vol. iii, —p. 87,) _ 
_ notices its use on the Malabar Coast. Rumphius remarks that 
adulterating opium. Ainslie aatd the author of the “Benga 
Dispensatory quote Rheede, but give no further information 
upon the use of the fruit in dysentery. In 1853, Sir B.~ 
Martin, writing in the Lancet (Vol. IL., p. 53,) called the 
, and in the advanced stages of those densa in ierealieda f 
the bowels, and i in habitual constipation. In the Conean = 
~ part each of nutmegs, cloves, saffron, naégkesar and mace, 
_ used as a remedy for diarrhoea ; the dose is one pill for a chil 
_ and three for an adult. Two tolas of the j juice of the bark. 18. 
| : -marmelade made from the full grown but still tender fruit ent. 
_in thin slices ; if keeps well, which is not the case with th 3 
4 “conserve made from the pulp of the ripe fruit usually met with 
ain the shops. 
- Description.—The fruit is a large berry, 2—4 inch i 
4 ‘ F diaineter, variable in shape, being spherical or somewl 
- flattened like an orange, ovoid, or pyriform, having a am ot 
: 1 hard shell; the interior divided into 10—15 cells, each conta: 
ing from 6—10 woolly seeds, consists of a mucilagivous | pt 
which is very aromatic, each seed is surrounded by 
tenacious mucus. The commercial article is entire 
