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In Nagpur, the santras yield two crops in the year, the 

 first crop from November to January, and the second in March 

 and April (Brandis). 



239. — C. deeurnana, Linn, h.f.b.l, i. 516. 

 The Pomelo or Shaddock-Pumel. 



Vern. : — Mahanibu ; chakotra ; batavi nebu ; Sadaphal (H.); 

 Batavi nebu ; maha nembu ; chakotra ; bator-nebu. (B.); chakotra 

 (Pb.) ; Bijoro (Sind.) ; Oba Kotru (Guz) ; Panas Popnas (Bomb.), 

 Papnassa ; 6 pappanassa (Mar.); Bombalinas (Tarn.); Edapandu 

 (Tel.); Sakotra hannu (Kan.). 



Habitat : — Cultivated in India. 



An evergreen tree, 30-40ft. The trees very seldom reach 

 higher than 10ft. in Bombay as grafts from " Goti," Bark 

 thick ; young shoots pubescent. Leaflets large, ovate-oblong, 

 6-9in., frequently emarginate, pubescent beneath, petiole 

 broadly winged. Flowers large, white, highly odorous, the scent 

 most delicate and delicious forming the " Neroli Water " very 

 largely used by the European Jews of Bombay and obtained 

 from Asiatic Turkey, probably Baghdad or Basorah. Stamens 

 16-24. Fruit often very large, even larger than a man's head ; 

 pale yellow when ripe, with juicy vesicles pink or crimson or 

 pale rosy inside, in great abundance in each carpel, sweet or acid, 

 slightly bitter in some varieties. Vesicle of pulp distinct. The 

 vesicular pulp is not by any means acrid, as Hooker remarks, 

 but aeid. The rind of the fruit is spongy, and the epicarp of 

 it aromatic ; it is used by some Europeans in Bombay for 

 making " Bitters," like Angustura bitters for mixing drops of 

 it with sherry as a drink before dinner (K. R. K.). 



Parts used : — The fruit and leaves. 



Use : —The fruit is nutritive and refrigerant. It contains 

 sugar and citric acid, with much essential oil in the peel. The 

 leaves are said to be useful in epilepsy, chorea and convulsive 

 cough (Punjab Products). 



In Brazil, " a gum which exudes in quantity from this tree 

 when it begins to decay, probably in consequence of the attack 



