FERONIA ELEPHANTUM 69 



The Bael is macerated in a third of the water and at the end of 

 12 hours the liquid is decanted and another third of water is 

 added ; the maceration is repeated and the same process followed 

 till the last third of water is used. Express the residuum, put 

 all the liquid into one vessel, filter and evaporate till reduced to 

 800 grams, then cool and add the alcohol. Dose, 4-8 grams. 



The fluid extract is less active than the freshly prepared solid 

 extract. 



According to Dr. G. Bidie, the fruit of the Feronia elephan- 

 tum, Correa (the species that grows in the Philippines), possesses 

 the same properties as Bael. Its leaves are astringent, aro- 

 matic and carminative, and the gum with which the trunk of 

 the tree is covered is a good substitute for gum arable. 



Botanical Description. — A tree 7-8 meters high, the 

 trunk covered with large, solitary spines. Leaves alternate, 

 ternate. Leaflets lanceolate, scalloped and glabrous, the middle 

 one larger than the others. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla, 5 thick 

 petals, linear, much longer than the calyx. Stamens 10. Ovary 

 cylindrical. Style and stigma thick. Fruit oblong, more than 

 3' long and 2 f thick, with a surface irregular with prominences 

 and grooves ; 10 or more compartments, each containing several 

 ovoid, compressed seeds, ending with a woolly tuft. 



Habitat. — San Mateo, Montalban (Manila) ; Arayat (La 

 Pampanga). 



Feronia elephantum, Correa. (Murraya odorata, Blanco.) 

 Nom. Vulg. — Panoan, Pamunoan, Vis. ; Wood-apple, Eng. 

 Uses. — The pulp of the ripe fruit has an agreeable odor and 

 is edible. In India the green fruit is used as an astringent in 

 diarrhoea and dysentery ; the ripe fruit is given in diseases of 

 the gums and as a gargle. Mir Muhammad Husain states that 

 the ripe fruit is a refrigerant, astringent, cardiac and general 

 tonic, and is very efficacious in the treatment of salivation and 

 ulcers of the throat, strengthening the gums and operating as 



