^GLE.] BVTAOE^. 143 



luany series upon 5-6 parietal placentas. Fruit large, globose, 

 with *a lougli woody rind, 1-celled, many-seeded. Seeds buried 

 in pulp, oblong, compressed. — A single species, 



Pf elephantum, Correa in Trans. Linn. Soc. v, 225 ; Rosth. Cor. PI. t» 

 141 ; Fl. Ind. ii, 411 ; W. Sf A. Prod. 96 ; Royle III. 129; D. 4 G. Bomb. Fl. 

 30 ; Brand. For. Fl.56 ; F. B. I. i, 516. Watt E. D Limonia acidissima, L 

 {see page 140). Vern. Bilin, Kat-hel (Elephant or Wood-apple). 



A small deciduous glabrous tree, armed with strong- straight axillary 

 thorns. Bark dark grey or nearly black, wrinkled, and with longitudinal 

 shallow furrows. Leaves smelling of aniseed ; leaflets 5-7, cuneate or 

 obovate, tip crenate. Flowers ^ in. acros.s, pale-green stained with red. 

 Anthers dark red, male and fern, flowers often in the same panicle. Peduncle 

 and pedicels pubescent. Fruit about the size of a tennis ball. 



Siwalik range, and forests at the base of the Himalaya in Eohilkhand 

 and N. Oudh, often cultivated, Distrib. : Cultivated in many parts of 

 India, and occasionally found wild : also in Java. Flowers Feb.-May ; 

 the fruit ripens in October, and remains for a long time on the tree. 

 The bark yields a valuable gum resembling gum-arabic. The pulp of 

 the fruit is used medicinally, and also as a food adjunct. The hard dry 

 shells of small fruits are used as snuff-boxes. 



10. iEGLE, Correa ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i, 516. 



Spinous trees ; leaves alternate, 3-£oliolate ; ^ea/?e^5 membranons, 

 subcrenulate. Flowers large, white, in axillary panicles. Calyx 

 small, 4-5-toothed, deciduous. Petals 4-5, spreading, imbricate. 

 Stamens many, inserted round an inconspicuous disk ; filaments 

 short, subulate ; anthers elongate. Ovary ovoid, axis broad, cells 

 8-20, peripheral ; style short ; stigma capitate, oblong or fusiform, 

 decidaous ; ovules many, 2-seriate. Fruit large, globose ovoid or 

 reniform, 8-15-celled ; cells many-seeded, rind woody. Seeds im- 

 bedded in aromatic pulp, oblong, compressed ; testa woolly and 

 mucous— Species 2 in Tropical Asia, and 1 in Trop. W. Africa. 



iE. Marmelos, Correa in Trans. Linn. 8oc. v, 223; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 579 ; 



W. Sf A. Prod. 96 : Royle El. 130 ; B. ^ G Bomb. Fl. 31 ; Brand. For. 



Fl. 57 ; F. B. I. i, 516 ; Watt E. D. Vern. Bel, bih (Bael tree). 



A small deciduous glabrous tree; spines 1 in, long, strong, straight 

 axillary. Leaflets usually 3, ovate-lanceolate, lateral sessile, terminal 

 stalked. Floxvers 1^ in. across, greenish- white, sweet-scented ; pedicels 

 and calyz pubescent. Filaments sometimes fascicled. Fruit 2-7 in. in 

 diam., globose oblong or pyriform. Rind grey or yellow. Pulp orange- 

 coloured, sweet. 



Common in the Dehra Dun and Saharanpur forests, and in other parts 

 of the area, but often cultivated. Distbib. : Wild or cultivated 

 throughout the greater part of India, ascending to 4,000 ft. on the outer 



