FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, 

 Carissa spinarum. Don. Spiny Carissa. 



Linn. Sytt. Pentandria Monogynia. 



The fruit, used as a tart fruit and conserve. 

 Vernacular. ? 

 Habitat. East Indies. 



Remarks. This species is not indigenous to Bombay as C. Carandas 

 is ; but is completely naturalized. 



Roupellia grata. Wall. Grateful Cream Fruit. 



Linn. Sytt. Pentandria Monogynia. 



The fruit, used as a fruit. 

 Vernacular. ? 

 Habitat. Sierra Leone. 

 Remarks. Flowers richly in Bombay, but has not yet fruited, 



N. O. 142. LOGANIACE^E. LOGANIADS. 

 Strychnos Nux-vomica. Linn. Poison Nut. 



Linn. Syst. Pent-anrlria Monogynia. 



The fruit, used as a fruit. 



Vernacular. Feeshamoostie, Kulaka, Sans. Koochila, Hind. Bengv 

 Kajra y By, Kariram, Mai. Yettie-marum, Tarn. Moostiffhenza? 

 Mnsadi, Tel. Koodakad-doorutta, Cey. Kha-bcnwg, Pegu. 



Habitat. Oncans, Travancore, Ceylon, Coromandel. 



Remarks. See <{ Drugs." There can be no doubt, that this frmt is 

 commonly eaten in the Concans, for the sake of the pulp enclosing its 

 deadly seeds* Livingstone (Missionary Travels, ch. xiii.) states that the 

 villagers of the Banyeti eat a variety of the Nux-vomica. " The pulp 

 between the nuts is the part eaten, and is of a pleasant juicy nature, 

 having a sweet acidulous taste. The fruit resembles a large yellow orange, 

 but the rind is hard, and, with the pips and bark, contains much of the 

 deadly poison. * * * The nuts swallowed inadvertently cause consi- 

 derable pain, but not death ; and to avoid this inconvenience the people 

 dry the pulp before the fire, in order to be able the more easily to get rid 

 of the noxious seeds." Burton also (Lake Region of Africa, ch. iii.) states 

 that the Nux-vomica is eaten in Africa. The fruit is of an " agro dolce 

 flavour, with a suspicion of the mango:" and the nuts are swallowed 

 with impunity, being too hard to digest. 

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