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the generic name (Egle (a new genus formed from 

 Cratoeva by Correa), which classical appellation was 

 given to this tree by Correa, after one of the Hes- 

 perides ; but now, from the well-known medicinal 

 properties contained in nearly every part of the tree, 

 it may be more appropriate to regard the name (Egle 

 (signifying brightness or splendour) to have been given 

 after one of the daughters of (Esculapius. The tree 

 belongs to the natural family Aurantiaceoe. The fruit 

 is about the size of an orange, generally round in 

 form ; the rind is of a yellowish brown color, with a 

 shade of dark green ; it is hard, and, when broken, 

 the pulp is found surrounding the seeds, of a dark 

 amber, varying to cherry red color ; very mucilaginous, 

 and of an agreeable aromatic odor. One which I 

 recently received, and was in a very fresh state, 

 weighed a quarter of a pound. The bark of the root, 

 the bark of the stem, the leaves, flowers, and fruit, are 

 all used for medicinal purposes in India ; but the fruit 

 is held most in estimation. It is only in the third 

 edition of " Koyle's Materia Medica," published in 

 1856, that a very short notice of the bael fruit was 

 given ; but recently more attention has been bestowed 

 upon it, and it has now obtained a place in the new 

 British Pharmacopoeia of 1864, in which the fruit is 

 described thus : ' Roundish, about the size of a large 

 orange, with a hard woody rind : usually imported in 

 dried slices, or in fragments consisting of portions of 

 the rind and adherent dried pulp and seeds ; rind about 

 a line and a half thick, covered with a smooth pale 

 brown or greyish epidermis, and internally, as well as 

 the dried pulp, brownish orange, or cherry red. The 

 moistened pulp is mucilaginous.' The preparation 

 ordered in the Pharmacopoeia is the liquid extract. 

 The preparations of the bael fruit to be found in the 

 shops of the apothecaries in Sydney are the liquid ex- 

 tract, the confection, and the extract ; but I have been 

 informed that the high price of the preparations of 



