oe  SIMARUBEA. 
. " Matti-pal The bark has a pleasing: astringent and slightly 
ag bitter taste, is given in cases of dyspepsia and dysentery, and — 
_ isalso considered a valuable tonic and febrifuge. Reduced to 
powder, mixed with milk and strained, the resin is given in” 
_ &mall doses in dysentery and also in bronchitis, and is reputed 
_ to be an excellent remedy, chiefly owing to its balsamic pro- 
perties. The fruit, triturated with mango, and mixed with 
rice, is reckoned useful in cases of ophthalmia, and the juice of 
_the fresh bark in 1 oz. doses with an equal quantity of curds. 
_ is said to be a valuable remedy in dysentery. 
1g 
Description.—The resin attached to the bark which was 
collected for us in Canara was very nearly the colour of hock= 
bottle glass ; ; it was hard, brittle and pense and mixed | 
_ brown, of the size of a large nutmeg, slightly 3-angled at th 
_ base, mucronate at the apex; it consists of a very thick woody 
nut, surrounded by an oily shrivelled pulp; within are three 
cells, each of which contains a sweet-tasted oily flat seed. 
Commerce.—The resin as met with in commerce is dark brown” 
_ OF grey in colour, plasticand opaque. It appears to have been 
_ obtained by tapping the trees, and is usually very inp’ 
Value, Rs. 24 per cwt. 
ps SAMADERA INDICA, Garin. 
 Fig.—Gartn. Fruct. IL, t 156; Wight, Ill, t 
Ttheede, Hort. Mal. vi., t. 18. : 
Hab.—Western Peninsula, Ceylon. The bark. 
ears siete (Tam. } ee Aika . 
