"842. , MELIACEZ. 
Description.—Amoora-bark is of a blackish-brown colour. 
‘externally, and -rough from the presence of numerous small, ° 
elliptic, warty projections, arranged longitudinally, and from - 
minute fissures. Its substance is of a deep reddish-brown, and 
shows a striated internal surface ; fracture short ; when. fresh it 
is soft and easily cut. 
The bulk of the bark is heute of pachackyme ‘cells,’ 
cohtaining starch and colouring matter; there are numerous 
yellow ‘stone cells arranged in broken concentric layers, and * 
very little woody fibre. The bark has a very astringent taste 
and turns of a greenish black when touched with a solution of 
ferric chloride: Ht has no particular odour. 
Chemical composition.—The bark contains two eallowt § resins 
3 soluble in ether, one of them insoluble in alcohol and alkaline’ 
solutions, the other soluble in such liquids and of an acid nature. ' 
- The alcoholic extract contains both -soluble and insoluble 
tannin, giving a dirty. green reaction with ferric salts. 
_ decoction of the bark gives a blue-black colour with: iodine 
solution, showing the presence of abundance of starch, and the 
powder leaves 12 per cent. of mineral matter when burnt. 
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AGLAIA ROXBURGHIANA, Mig. 
' Fig.— Wight Ie., t. 166 ; “Beda. Fil. Sylv., t. 130. 
Hab. — Western Peninsula, Ceylon. 
Vernacular. —=Priyenga ahh Beng., 4 Ma ar. r.) ; Lottie kas 
: TOs. ee 
History, Uses, &e.—This tree is the ean of Sans- 
krit writers, and | bears the following synonyms—Sy4ma, Kanta- 
tva, Nandini, Phalini, Lata ; which forma very poetical descrip- 
tion.and may be translated:— Like a slender maiden of golden © 
complexion, elegant, graceful, a fruit-bearing tree, with droop- 
ing branches ; and a description the justness of which we have 
cknowledged by giving the name Aglaia (the bright: one), one 
of the: a to the genus, The fruit is used in Hindu 
