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STAR APPLE. Vide Chrysophyllum Acuminatum. 



STERCULIA FCETIDA. Sterculiacece. JUNGLY BADAM. Poon tree ; 

 grows to a very large size, with digitate leaves ; deciduous in 

 the cold weather. Flowers in March and April, of a dull 

 crimson colour, and of an offensive odour : the seeds are roasted 

 and eaten. 



STERCULIA GUTTATA. NAT. GOLDAR. A large erect tree ; leaves 

 long petioled, villous underneath ; flowers in simple terminal 

 racemes, pubescent on both sides, outer and inner of a pale 

 yellow colour, marked with purple spots ; deciduous. Carpels 

 the size of a large apple, three or more growing together, of a 

 reddish colour ; seeds size of a chesnut, roasted and eaten by the 

 Natives. 



STERCULIA COLORATA. NAT. BHAEE OR KARAKA. A large tree 

 with palmated five-lobed leaves ; deciduous in the cold season j 

 flowers in March and April ; carpels of a bright red, somewhat 

 resembling the broad pod of a pea opened with the peas adher- 

 ing ; the tree when covered with them has a strange appearance. 



STERCULIA URENS. NAT. KAVALL A large tree ; leaves round, 

 cordate and five-lobed ; deciduous in the cold weather ; flowers 

 in February and March, very small ; the carpel is covered with 

 rigid bristly hairs, which puncture like the mucuna pruriens. 

 The bark of the trunk is white, and gives the tree a dead ap- 

 pearance. 



STERCULIA VILLOSA. A large tree ; leaves palmated, five or 

 seven-lobed. 



STRAWBERRY. Vide Fragaria. 



STRYCHNOS Nux VOMICA. Strychnia. NAT. KOOCHLA. This 

 tree grows in the hilly parts of the Concans ; the nuts are used 

 for poisoning fish. 



STRYCHNOS POTATORUM. CLEARING NUT. NAT. NIRMULLEE.T 

 This is a middle sized tree ; grows in various parts of the 

 Deccan, flowers in March and April, of a greenish yellow 

 colour. The ripe seeds are used by the Natives for clearing 

 water, by merely rubbing the inside of a vessel with them, then 



