221 
aie Muscat, cultivated, Aucher 4965. 
Arrica. French Sudan; Moussaia (cultivated), 
Glovaien 463; naturalised in Hibyes of French and Nigerian 
Sudan, Chevalier e c.) 
Boissie ee c.) says that the tree ve around arey and in 
the island of Ka ine i South Persia; it is known in Babylon 
ombar, and the fruit in Egypt re Mokhayet. Borancuslles* 
_ also observed the tree in Karrak 1 4, 
According to Post (l.c.), the re ne from January to. . May, 
and is cultivated everywhere; he records it as being “‘spon- 
taneous in Ghor ome the fruit is edible and is principally 
used for making birdlime; bark a tonic; wood used to kindle fire 
by a they formerly used by Egyptians to make sarcophagi.”’ 
Muschler (l.c.) states that it is ‘‘cultivated in old gardens, 
often ey abundant near Luksor and in the Great Oasis.” 
Cordia Myaa, var. domestica, C. B. Clarke (Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 
leaves ated below when young ‘With a mealy indumentum are 
its striking features. 
Cordia obliqua, Witte. Taye. 2 t. iv. (1794); Sp. Pl. 1. 
: .) om ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. 
. Bl. Brit. \Ind.-19: 131, excl. var. (1883) Watt, Dict. Econ. 
Prod. Ind. ii. 565. C. indica, Lam. Dict. vii. 49 (1806); DC. 
lc. 500. C. latifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Car. & Wall. 11. 330 
b. 500-5 : 
Arnboin. 447 Gon he non Lid: i-maram, Rheede, Hort. 
veut or further references to literature and 
detailed ee as to native names and uses, see Watt, 
ce. 
idel ead over nearly the whole of the warmer parts of 
fi pe Cael n (often a culliyebadds Malacca, Indo-China, 
ormosa, Java, Philippines (C. Blancot, Vidal), New 
lia. 
ainan, Fo 
Guinea and Tropical Austra. 
Vernacular name of the Baki in India, Lasora; known to Anglo- 
sten. 
Indians as 
1. Bomb. ii. 200 
e perenne "so tomentose buds and t calapestoe of f the 
eaves. 
* Mitt. Thiring. Bot. Ver. Neue Folge, Heft. vi. 57 (1894). 
