N. 0. MELIAOEiE. 317 



Flowers pen tarn erous ; sordid-yellow. Petals imbricated. Sta- 

 minal-tube half the length of the petals, equally 10-cleft for of 

 its length; divisions all bifid at the apex, hairy above. Petioles 

 ^-Mn., terminal one longer. Ovary 2-, rarely 3-celled. Fruit 

 egg-shaped, fin., covered with a short tomentum. 



Varies in appearance and character of foliage. The pulpy 

 aril of the seed is edible and pleasant. 



Use : — Corre and Lejanne state that in the Antilles the 

 tree is known as Herbe a mauvaise gens or Herbe a mediants, 

 and that the bark acts as a dangerous emmenagogue and violent 

 emetic. Air. Heelings worth of Madras has experimented with 

 it, and finds it to be stimulant and expectorant. The fruit of 

 another species of the same genus is said by Forskhal to be the 

 jauz-el-kai or the emetic nut of the Arabs, with whom it is 

 also used as hair wash to kill vermin, and as an ointment to 

 cure itch (Pharmacog. Ind.). 



270. Heynea trijuga, Roxb. h. f. b. l, 

 i. 565. Roxb. 367. 



Vern : — Kapia Kushi, Chenenji (B.) ; Limbara (Bomb.) ; 

 Gundira (Mar.) ; Kora (Kan.); Kora hadi (Mai.) 



Habitat : Forests of N. Oudh ; Himalaya, from Nepal 

 to Bhutan ; Khasia Mts. ; Bengal (Chota Nagpur ; Tirhut) ; 

 Western Peninsula, from the Concan southwards. 



Central and Eastern Himalaya, from Kumaon and Oudh 

 to Bhutan. Khasia Hills, Burma, Chota-Nagpur. Hills of 

 Western India. North Kanara and Nilgiri. Godavary district, 

 Man i pur. 



A small somewhat shrubby tree, sometimes attaining a 

 large size. Bark thin, rough, reddish brown, with lozenge- 

 shaped, depressed lenticels. Wood grey, when young, yellowish 

 white, moderately hard. Leaves imparipinnate. Leaflets oppo- 

 site, 4 pair, 2-6in., pale and often softly pubescent beneath. 

 Flowers white, in axillary corymbose panicles. Peduncle nearly 

 as long as leaf. Calyx campanulate, 3-5-cleft, petals valved in 



