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Ainslie also states that the seeds of F. reUyiosa are supposed 

 to possess cooling and alterative qualities, and quotes the follow- 

 ing passage from Bartolomeo's Voyage to the East Indies : *' Pul- 

 verised, and taken in water for fourteen days together^ the fruit 

 removes asthma^ and promotes fruitfulness in women." The 

 tree is the Aredlu of Khecde, and the Arbor eoncilionim oi^um- 

 phius, {Mat. IncL, ii., p. 25.) 



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remedy for toothache, and to the soles of the feet when cracked 

 and inflamed. The leaves, after they have turned yellow, are 

 given in the Concan with roasted rice in decoction as a 

 diaphoretic ; dose, three leaves. 



Description. — F. religiosa, a tree. — Leaves long-petioled, 

 ovate, cordate, narrow acuminate^ acumen one-third the length 

 of the leaf J entire, or repandly undulated towards the apex ; 

 fruit-receptacles axillary, paired^ sessile, depressed, size of a 

 small cherry, appearing in the hot season and ripening in the 

 rainy season, purple when ripe. 



F. bengalensisj a tree. — Branches spreading very much ; lower 

 ones rooting ; leaves alternate, ovate, bluntly acuminated, with 

 parallel nerves, paler underneath, entire, downy when young, 

 afterwards smooth ; fruit-receptacles axillary, paired, sessile, as 

 large as a middle-sized cherry^ appearing and ripening in the 

 hot season, red or yellow when ripe. 



F. TJaJi'ela, a tree. — Leaves rather long-petioled, mem- 

 branaceous, oblong, or sublanceolate-oblong, moderately and 

 acutely acuminated, obtuse or rounded, or subcordate at the 

 base, quite entire, or very slightly repand ; fruit small, sessile, 

 twin, globose, smooth, when ripe white. 



F. glomeraia, a tree. — Trunk crooked, thick, bark of a nistv- 

 greenish colour, rough; leaves alternate, petioled, oblono or 

 broad lanceolate, tapering equally to each end, entire, veiy 

 slightly 3-nerved, smooth on both sides ; racemes compound or 

 panicled, issuing immediately from the trunk or laro-e 

 branches ; fruit pedicelled, nearly as large as the common fio-, 

 clothed with soft down, purple when ripe. For a full 



