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bearing solitary spines. Leaves medium lanceolate, serrate, 

 the apex notched, petioles winged. Flowers usually solitary. 

 Calyx 4-5-toothed. Corolla 4-5 petals. Filaments joined or 

 separate. Anthers about 20. The fruit, a small orange 2' or 

 more in diameter, the peel closely adherent. 



The G. aurantium verum or C. reticulata (Blanco) has a yel- 

 low pulp and the rind is readily separated from it, a thin net 

 of fibers intervening. 



Citrus decumana, L. 



Noii. VuLGL.- — Suite, LuJcban, Tag.; Toronjas Penins.; Na- 

 ranjas, Sp.-Fil. 



Uses. — The fruit, which is handsome and large, and the 

 leaves and flowers, are used for the same purposes as those of 

 G. bigaradia. 



Habitat. — The above species are cultivated in all parts of 

 the islands, and, like the variety O. aurantium verum, H. f. (C. 

 reticulata, Blanco), commonly called naranjita, are among the 

 most abundant of native fruits. 



Mgle decandra, Naves. (Feronia ternata, Blanco.) 



NoM. YuLG. — Malahahuyaw, Tag.; Tahog, Pam., Tag. (A 

 species of Bael-Fruit Tree.) 



Uses. — We do not know the medicinal use of this plant in 

 the Philippines. Probably it has none, but we may give those 

 of the species. R. marmelos, Cor., the fruit of which is almost 

 identical with that of our species and is called Bela or Bael in 

 India. The fruit of the Malakabuyaw is ovoid and full of a 

 mucilaginous pulp, aromatic and acid, the same as that of the 

 Bael. The uses of the latter are the following : The pulp acts 

 as an astringent, but it would be more correctly called a tonic 

 of the intestinal mucosa, for it has been experimentally proved 

 that, although it checks diarrhoea, it also acts as a laxative in 



