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12. AEGLE, Corr. 



1. A MARMELOS. A tall thorny tree; leaves pinnate ; leaflets 

 3, rarely 5 ; peduncles axillary, few-flowered ; flowers rather large, 

 on long pedicles ; fruit large, spherical, smooth, full of pulp, which 

 is very valuable in dysentery. They are regularly sold in the Cal- 

 cutta bazars. Native name " Bil." Syn. Feronia pellucida, Roth, 

 nov. sp. p 384 ; Cratseva marmelos, Linn ; Rheed. Mai. iii, t. 37. 

 Wild in many parts of the Deccan. 



XXXII. CLUSIACE^E. 

 1. GARCINIA. 



1. PURPUREA. A tall slender tree, with drooping branches and 

 dark-green leaves, red when young ; fruit spherical, smooth, full of 

 purple juice. It is eaten, and has an agreeable acid flavour. From 

 it the Foituguese at Goa make a syrup, and the seeds furnish the 

 concrete oil called " Kokum," so useful in healing chaps. In 

 the Southern Concan ; common. 



2. XANTHOCHYMUS, Roxb. 



1 . OVALIFOLIUS, Roxb. A middling-sized tree ; leaves oval, 

 shining ; flowers lateral fascicled, berry oval, size of a walnut, found 

 in March and April. It has a smooth green rind, and is full of yellow 

 juice. On the Ghauts ; pretty common. Syn. Stalagmitis ovali- 

 folius, Don. ; S cambogioides, Moore's Cat. of Ceylon PI ; Cam- 

 bogia gutta, Burm. Fl Ind. 



2. PICTORIUS, Roxb. A middling-sized tree with a dense coma 

 of thick dark-green polished leaves, each upwards of a foot in 

 length; fruit size of an apple, pointed, bright yellow, which yields a 

 large quantity of pretty good gamboge. On the Southern Ghauts; 

 one tree, probably planted, grows in the island of Caranjah. Syn. 

 Stalagmitis pictorius, G. Don. 



3. MESUA, Linn. 



1 . FERREA, Linn. An elegant tree, with coriaceous oblong 

 lanceolate leaves, shining above and glaucous beneath ; flowers 

 large, white, like a Cistus. Southern Concan, Warree, where it is 

 called " Nagchumpa." Syn. M speciosa, DC. Prod. 1 ; Calo- 

 phyllum nagassarum, Burm. Ind. p 21. 



4. CALOPHYLLUM, Linn. 



1. INOPHYLLTJM, Linn. DC. Prod. 1,562. A small crooked 

 tree, with beautiful dark -green shining elliptic leaves; racemes lax, 



