366 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



sappy, whitish or pale bluish edible, delicious, sweet arillus, 

 with a fine rosy smell ; juice refreshing. 



Uses : — In China the leaves are stated to be officinal as a 

 remedy for the bites of animals (Duthie in Watt's Dictionary). 



317. A 7 . Longana, Canib. h.f.b.i., i. 688, Roxb. 

 329. 



Vern. : — Ashphal (B.) ; Wumb, wumb-ashphal (Bomb.) ; 

 Vomb (Mar.) ; Puvati, Nurai. (Tam.) ; Malahcota, Kanakindali 

 (Kan.); Kayetmauk (Lower Burma) ; Tawthayet (Upper Burma) ; 

 Mora, Rasamora (Sinhalese). 



Habitat: — Westside of the Peninsula, from the Konkan 

 southwards. Khasi Hills. Burma. 



Cultivated in N. India, Ceylon, Malaya Peninsula, Hima- 

 laya, from the Jhelum to Bhutan. Dehra Dun. 



A large evergreen tree, attaining 50ft. Bark smooth, 

 yellowish grey. Wood red, moderately hard. Leaves paripin- 

 nate, 4-18in. Leaflets 4-10 (2-5 pair) opposite, alternate 

 usually rather obtuse at both ends, glabrous above, sub-glauces- 

 cent, glabrous or nearly so, marked with lateral veins beneath, 

 wavy, entire, base oblique. Panicles ample, rusty pubescent. 

 Flowers monoecious fin. across. Calyx tomentose, segments 

 5-6, narrowly imbricate. Petals pubescent, spathulate, as long 

 as Calyx. Stamens 6-10 ; in the male flower long-exserted, in 

 the hermaphrodite flower, as long as Calyx ; filaments hairy near 

 base. Anthers glabrous, ovary 2-3-lobed, hairy. Carpel usually 

 one, ovoid or globose, nearly smooth, yellowish-red, fin. diam. 

 Seed entirely enclosed by the succulent sweet edible arillus. 



Use : — In China the fruit is reputed to be nutrient, sto- 

 machic and anthelmintic (Duthie 1. c.) 



The seed of the following plant belonging to this genus has been chemi- 

 cally analysed. 



Nephelium Lappaceum, Linn, h.f.b.i., i. 687. 



The percentage composition of the ground seed is as follows. Water, 

 5*87 ; fat, soluble in ether and petroleum 35-07 ; ether extractive matter, in- 

 soluble in petroleum, 3'00 ; ash, 1"95 ; albumin, 889. Crude fibre, 6-90; 

 starch, 25'G3 ; sugar, 1*25. The fats consist of the triglycerides of arachic 

 and oleic acids, together with a very small quantity of the triglyceride of 

 stearic acid —J. Ch. S. LXX, pt. II. (1896), p. 209. 



