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medicine, ‘and-is considered to be cooling and astringent, and 
useful in inflammatory, bilious, and febrile complaints ; it is also 
_ thought to be beneficial in leprosy. The seeds appear to be 
q the part to which the medicinal reputation of the fruit is due. 
Description.—A large tree with pinnate leaves, and 
_« yellow. flowers. Fruit } to # inch in diameter, sub-globose, very 
Priavtcly pilose, l‘to 2 celled and seeded, Ldinolonbed when 
_ fresh, brown and wrinkled when dry. It consists of a thin shell 
inclosing ' lor 2 brown seeds, covered by a pink fleshy aril; 
_ The seeds are flat, of somewhat irregular outline, with one side 
_ Slightly convex ; they are nearly half an inch in diameter and - 
remarkably Pet and ee when dry they have an, 
‘aromatic odour. - oe 
Chemical composition.—The seeds deca of their husks, 
_ dried at a low temperature and reduced to fine powder yielded 
9°14 per cent. of moisture. The ash amounted to 2°91 per cent., 
» and contained no manganese, * With the exception of astringent 
Matter which afforded the reactions for quercitannic acid, there 
sis nothing special to note in connection with these seeds, 
_, The bark of Carapa moluccensis, Lam., the Granatwm 
 littoreum of Rumphius’ (iii., 92, t. 61), a tree of the muddy 
Sea coasts of India’ and Ceylon, is bitter and astringent, 
: and is employed by the “ee in colic, ° diarrhoea, and other 
4 uene affections. 
CHLASTRINE. 
CELASTRUS PANICULATA, Willd. 
-Fig.— Wight Ill. 179, t. 72; Ie, t. 158. re 
Hab.—Hilly districts from Himalaya to Ceylon. The seod "4 
and oil. ts: 
 Vernacular.—Malkanguni (Hind., Guz, Mar.; Can.), Gan- : : 
-dumeda, Malkanguni (Tel.), Valuluvai, Ati-parich-cham (Zam.). 
History, Uses, &c.—The seeds have long been in repute 
Hindu phpsieags on account of their pecihnet areas 
