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outside, pubescent within. Staminal-tube somewhat tapering, 

 hairy within, teeth spreading, filiform ; anthers nearly sessile ; 

 style long, stigma clavate, 5-toothed. Drupe ovoid, 1-1 Jin., 

 smooth and shining, yellowish. Seeds solitary in each cell ; 

 pointed, smooth, brown. 



Part used :— The fruit. 



Uses : —The pulp of the fruit has a bitter nauseous taste. 

 It is a favourite remedy amongst the laboring classes for colic, 

 half a fruit being the dose for an adult. It appears to have 

 hardly any purgative properties, but is said to relieve the pain 

 most effectively. In the Concan, the juice of the green fruit, 

 with a third of its weight of sulphur, and an equal quantity of 

 curds, heated together in a copper pot, is used as an application 

 to scabies, and to sores infested with maggots (Dymock, 173.) 



265. Sandorieum indiciim, Cav., h. f.b.i., i. 553. 



Vem. :— Thitto (Burm.) ; Santor (Malay). 



Habitat: — Eastern Peninsula; from Rangoon, Tenasserim 

 to Penang. Introduced into the Western Peninsula. 



Trimen : —Sinhalese name— Lunu-midella. Tamil — Malal- 

 Vempu. 



An evergreen tree, with trifoliate, coriaceous leaves, attain- 

 ing 60ft. Wood close-grained, moderately hard, medullary rays 

 conspicuous on radial section. Branchlets, inflorescence and 

 leaves velvety. Flowers yellow, in narrow axillary panicles. 

 Staminal-tube 10-dentate, style articulate at base, clavate above, 

 ending in a thickened ring, bearing five obtuse stigmatic lobes, 

 fruit globose, 3in. diam., yellow and velvety when ripe ; exocarp 

 a fleshy and edible pulp, endocarp lining the cells, horny, 

 covered with a densely felted mass of long pluricellular hairs, 

 over Jin. long. Cotyledons filled with starch and oil. 



Use : — The root, which is bitter, bruised with vinegar and 

 water, is used by the Amboyans as a carminative and also in 

 cases of diarrhoea and dysentery (Rumphius). 



266. Aglaia Roxbiirghiana, ri. f. b. L, i. 553. 

 Sy)i : — Milnea Roxburghiana W. and A., A. odoratissima, 

 Blume. 

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