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_ mass at 18°5° C., at which temperature it has a specific gravity 
of 09134, Tt affords 95:7 per cent. of insoluble fatty acids 
- melting at 36°, The lead soap of thé fatty acids was soluble 
to the extent of 88 per cent. in ether, as lead oleate; the 
fatty acids from the insoluble portion melted-at 57°, and 
_ possessed the characters of a mixture of palmitic and stearic 
acids, 
Commerce.—Chirongi seeds are obtainable at about 4.annas 
p per pound, 
_-—« SPONDIAS MANGIFERA, Willd. 
| -Fig.—Wight Ill. I. 186, t. 76; Bedd. Fl. Sylv., t. 169. 
@ Hog plum tree, Wild mango (Zng.), Mombin de Malabar (F’.). 
Hab.—Throughout India. The fruit and gum. 
__ Vernacular.—Ambra, Amra (Hind., Beng.), Ambada (Mar.), 
_ Mari-manchedi (Tam.), Toura-mamidi (Tel.), Pundi (Can.) 
History, Uses, &c.—This tree is the Amr&taka, Amrat, 
and Adhvaga-bhogya (traveller’s delight), of Sanskrit writers, 
who describe the pulp of the fruit as acid and astringent and 
E useful in bilious dyspepsia, on which aceount the name of | 
_ Pittavriksha, or “bile tree,” is applied to it. Itis the Con- 
- dondum Malaccense of Rumphius (I., 51). The fruit is much 
used by the Hindus as an acid vegetable, and they make a 
_ preparation of it resembling gooseberry fool, which is called 
and are administered in dysentery, and the gum is used as a 
demulcent. 
Description.—The drupe is oval, fleshy, smooth, the size | 
of a pullet’s egg, and yellow when ripe ;, nut oblong, woody, 
_ very hard, outwardly fibrous, 5-celled, from 1 to 3 cells only a 
* 
-* aga (Mar.), creat (Hind.) is a semi-fluid.dish prepared with a little 
Mustard, milk, and the pulp of some acid fruit. ee my 
_ Réyeté.* The leaves and bark are astringent and aromatic, 
are fertile; seed lanceolate ; ‘embryo inverse, without peri- : é 
The gum is yellowish or light brown, principally in 
