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epidermis, which is of a light grey or dicty white colour ; 
béneath the epidermis, the rind is dull green, woody sid 
granular, mach more fragile than that of the Bél. The odour 
when ripe is aromatic, and resembles that of melon, ‘There | 
dre about 500 seeds in each fruit of a bland taste and free 
from bitterness; they are embedded in a pale greyish-pink : 
pulp, and are of an oblong compressed form, with thick fleshy Ais 
cotyledons, and a radicle pointing away from the hilum. The — 
eaves have from 5—7 leaflets, cuneate, or obovate with a 
Crenate tip; they smell aromatic. The root bark is thick, 
white and starchy ; it has the odour of the leaves and contains 
essential oil. The gum is in tears or irregular masses, 
_ yellow cr brownish; dissolved in water it forms’ an almost — 
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ms litmus, and is precipitated by alcohol, oxalate of | 
amonia, alkaline silicates, perchloride of iron, but not by. 
is so pagan from the Feronia mucilage by oxalate 
s not identical with gum Arabic ; when examined in a colamit 
ab banda assent of mucic acid, | 
