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aftertaste of muscatel ; it is also dried, and preserves aud drinks arc 

 prepared from it and administered to fever patients and persons at- 

 tacked by bilious maladies. The Ramhoutan is N. lappaccmn^ of 

 tropical Asia. The aril is employed for the same piu-poses ; it is said 

 to be delicious. The seed is considered bitter and narcotic. Another 

 of the Sapindaccœ with edible fruit is Cufania sapiduf from Guinea, 

 which has been transported to India and the Antilles, and is used 

 for seasoning stews ; with sugar and cinnamon a cooked preserve is 

 prepared, used for the treatment of diarrhœa. Boiled under the 

 cinders, the fi-uit is applied as a maturative to abscesses. The odour is 

 agreeable ; women employ as a cosmetic a perfumed water obtained 

 from it by distillation. In many other Sapindaceœ, either the peri- 

 carp, aril, or embryo are eaten. In Mclicocca hijuga^ of the Antilles, 

 the pulp of the pericarp and the grilled kernel are both in use. The 

 seeds of Ciipania americana have the flavour of chestnuts or sweet 

 acorns, and are used, on the banks of the Orinoco, to make a fermented 

 liquor. The aril of Biploglottis Cunniughami* (fig. 378-381) is 

 fleshy, acid, and sweet. In Schmidelia cdulis,^' the fruit, said to be 

 much sought after by the Brazilians, has a mild and sweet taste, In 

 the Isle of France an excellent jelly is again prepared with imperfectly 

 ripe fruits. In Java a kind of cider is made from the pericarp of 

 Pancovia ediiUs''' (&g. 375-377). At the Cape is eaten, under the 

 name of Wild Plum, that of Puppœa ccqunm'^ (fig. 3o9, 360) assigned 

 by us to the genus Nephelium? The seeds are oleaginous. Many 

 species of Cupania '■' and Paidlinia have edible t ceds. The most 

 celebrated in America is that of P. sorbiHs^° (fig. 382, 383), having on 



eiisis GMïiTS.FiMt. i. t. 42, fig. 3. — Bimocarpus Malabar as anti-diarrhceic. Its root is strongly 



Zichi JjOvr. {Osa, Vsao (Kat), Ly-chi, Litchi astringent, the same as that of -S'. ^/V/cmm DC. 



poneeau). In Cochinchina the leaves and bark of 6". cochin- 



' L. Sysl. iv. 236. — Lamk. 111. t. 764. — Dimo- chinensis DC. are applied to wounds and 



carpus criiiita LouR. op. cit. 234. — Etiphoria bruises. {AH-iphijllKs tcriiatus Lour. op. cit. 



Nephelium DC. 232). 



'^ C. cdnlis ScHUM. et Thonn. Beskr. 190. — ^ Erioglossam ediile Bl. Rtimphia, iii. 119, t. 



Bliglna aapida Kœn. in Ann. Bat. (1806), ii. 166. — Besth. Fl. Austral, i. 454.' — Sapindua 



571.— DC. Prodr. i. 609.— Baker, Fl. Trop. mUginoms Roxn. PL Coram, i. 44, t. 62.-6'. 



Afr. i. 426. — Kosenth. op. cit. 780. — Aakesia edulis Bl. Cat. Sort. Buitenz. 64 (Kilalcyo 



Africaiia Tuss. Fl. Ant. i. 66, t. 3. — Bomiania Sundaic). 



nitlda Eafix. ' EcKL. et Zeyii. Enwn. 53.— Pappe, Fl. 



•* L. Spec. 495. — DC. Prodr. i. 615. — M. Med. Cap. 3. — Hook. Icon. 352. — Sapindns 



Carpoodea J. Mem. Mus. iii. 187, t. 4. — Mtli- Fappea So.nd. Fl. dp. i. 2i\.—Kigijc!iiria inte- 



coceus bijugatus JAca. Amer. 108, t. 72. M. gri folia E. Mey. 



trijiiga J., type of the genus Schleicla-ra, has also " See p. 351. 



an edible fruit. ' Rosesth. op. cit. 780, 1152. 



" See p. 415, n. 7. '" Mast. Mat. Med. Bras. 59 ; PI. Med. et 



' A. S. H. Fl. Us. Bras. i. 67. S. serrala Œcon. Bras. ined. t. 110.— Exdl. E:.clnrid. 



C. {Ornitrophe scrrata Koxn.) is employed in 563. — Rosexth. op. Ht. 777. 



