MELIACE, ie 
oval, snperior. The seed is # of an inch long and § broad; 
_ testa dark-brown or black, polished, kernel very oily, sweet- 
tasted. The pulp of the fruit has a bitter nauseous taste. - 
“It is’ a favourite remedy amongst the labouring classes for 
colic, half a fruit being the dose for an adult. It appears to 
have hardly any purgative properties, but. is said to relieve 
the pain most effectively, and to act as an anthelmintic. In 
the Concan the juice of the green fruit with a third of its 
weight of sulphur and an equal quantity of curds heated 
_ together in a copper pot is used as an application to scabies, 
and to sores infested with maggots. 
Chemical composition.—The bitter principle of the fruit is a 
white crystallizable glucoside soluble in ether, alcohol and 
_ Water; it is precipitable from its aqueous solution by tannin 
and alkaloidal reagents but not by plumbic acetate, and it has 
a slight acid reaction. Sulphuric acid dissolves it with a deep- 
ening of colour, discharged on the addition of water. Boiled 
with diluted hydrochloric acid it is decomposed in less than 
half an hour into glucose and a colouring matter. Petroleum 
ether removes a fatty oil of nauseous property, and ether dis- 
Solves a tasteless wax of greenish colour soluble in boiling 
alcohol and only slightly in petroleum ether ; besides these 
constituents, malic acid, glucose, mucilage and pectin occur In 
the fruit. 
Commerce.—The fruits are sold in the bazar at Re. 1-4 per lb. 
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NAREGAMIA ALATA, W. & A. 
Fig.— Rheede, Hort. Mal. «., t- 22; Wight Ic. t. 90. 
Hab.—W. Peninsula. The stem and roots. 
7 _ _ Vernacular.—Pittvel, Pittpapra, Pittmari, Tinpéni = a 
3 Nela-naregam (Mal.), Nela-naringu, Nalakanu-gida (( an.)s us 
_ Trifolio (Goa.) ae 
a History, Uses, &c.—This is the country Tpecacuanba = 
of the Portuguese at Goa. Garcia d’Orta, who calls it Avacari ce 
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