“204 ; abi 3k nt ‘SIMARUBER. 
os Description, Uses, &C.—A tree 30 to 35 feet at the 
ns Karin Njoti of Rheede, who gives Lokhandi as the Brahminic 
“name, It has large, alternate, oblong leaves, and long 
_ axillary or terminal peduncles, divided at the top into a smal] 
__ umbel, which becomes pendulous in fruit; the latter is oval, 13 
_ by 1 inch, and is a dry, compressed, one-seeded drupe, with a 
narrow unilateral wing ; its surface is coriaceous, smooth, or 
slightly reticulated, and of a brown colour. The seed is 
_ brown and curved. The bark (Nicpa bark) and the seeds are 
very bitter ; the former is used as a febrifuge on the Malabar 
oast. The wood is ‘bitter, of a pale yellow colour like 
and other diseases, probably from the fact of their protecting 
_ the fect and keeping them dry. The natives also extract an oil 
from the kernels, which is said to be a good application in 
e oliation of the suber. Beneath the suber, which can be 
ily separated, the bark is yellowish-white, and this colour 
‘extends through its substance to the inner surface. The bark 
hasa short fibrous fracture and bitter taste like quassia. A. 
sverse section magnified presents no peculiarity eonfliy of 
Se 
n and stearin. The bitter principle, samaderin, Was 
sh, and soluble in water and aleohol and amorphous 5 <3 
gen (1 eee = ts gore it from the Reed an bark i Bes 
