193 
1380. A. Hirsutra. Rox. Flora. Ind. 3. p. 52). A pubescens, Willd. Spec. 
4. p, 198. Ansjali. Rheed. Mal. 3. ¢. 32. 
A large timber tree, native of the forests of Malabar. Intd- by N.—Rheede 
mentions, that the trunk of it is hollowed out, and converted into fishing Ca- 
noes, the same as is done with the trunk of the Bombax ceiba, in the West 
Indies. 
1381. A. Lakxoocua. Rox. Flora. Ind. 3. p. 524. 
Lowi.—A tree; native of Bengal. Leaves alternate, oval, entire, pointed, 
downy beneath; deciduous in the cold weather; fruit nearly round, smooth, 
size ofa large orange, yellow, when ripe, edible. Roxburgh says, the roots of 
this tree dye, yellow.---Salsette and the North Concan; only in a cultivated 
state. N. 
647. LEPURANDRA. N. Monoecia Monandria? 
From lepur---a scale—andros---a male; in allusion to the numerous scaly 
receptacles in which the anthers are placed. 
1382. L. Saccipora. N. 
Chandul.---A stately forest tree, with alternate, oblong-elliptical, acumi- 
nate, dentate, serrulate, stipulate leaves; base sub-cordate, petioles short; young 
shoots clothed with short brown hairs; Flowers in October, in very curious 
reflected aments, something like a common Mulberry. Drupe, size jand 
shape of a small fig; covered with a beautiful purple coloured down; first 
noticed by Dr. Lush, at Kandalla in 1837. 
The Nuts are intensely bitter, and contain an azotized principle, which 
may prove an active medicinal agent. N. 
Grows in the deep ravines at Kandalla. It istruly majestic, and deserves 
to be classed among Thomson’s 
“‘ Lofty trees, to ancient song unknown, 
The noble sons of potent heat and floods 
Prone-rushing frem the clouds.” 
Thomson’s Summer. 
It is common in the jungles near Coorg, where the people manufacture 
very curious sacks from the bark, and by a most simple process, which will 
hardly he credited in Europe. A branch is cut, corresponding to the length 
and diameter of the sack wanted. It is soaked a little, and then beaten 
with clubs until the liber separates from the wood. This done, the sack 
formed of the bark, is turned inside out, and pulled down until the wood is 
sawed off, with the exception of asmall piece left to form the bottom of the 
sack, and which is carefully left untouched. These sacks are in general use 
among the villagers for carrying rice, and are sold for about 6 aunas each. 
(Mr. F. N. Maltby. Madras C. S.) Some of them have been sent to England 
as curiosities, by Mr. P. Ewart. 
The tree abounds in amilky, tenacious juice, like most of the Artocarpeee; 
and it is in the mean time placed among them, until its affinities are better 
known. The general habit is that of the order, with the fruit of Galacto- 
dendron, which belongs to it, tho’ Dr. Arnott has referred it to the Apocynee. 
648. MORUS. Lt. Monoecia Tetrandria. . 
Moria or Moron, a Greek name of the mulberry. (Ist Maccabees 6. 34, 
“* the blood of grapes and mulberries.”) Gaert, 2. ¢. 126 Tourn. ¢, 362. Lam. 
t. 762, 
According to fable, the mulberry bore a snow-white fruit, till stained by the 
blood of Pyramus. ; 
“* Arborei foetus aspergine caedis in atram 
Vertuniur faciem; madefactaque sanguine radix 
Puniceo tingit pendentia mora colore.” 
Ovid’s Meta, Book 4. Fable 4, 
