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33. Corr. 
25. ^g-le Marmelos Corr. ; F. 1. ii. 579 ; F, B. I. i. 516. E. D. a 534. 
Jatta, among the ruins, Prain ! 
Vernac. Bel^ Vilva, 
A medium to large tree; yields a gum ; also a dye from the rind of the fruit ; 
timber white, hard but not durable ; fruit medicinal, when unripe astringent, when 
ripe cooling and mildly laxative ; used in dysentery. The tree is sacred ; this 
perhaps explains its existence beside an abandoned temple,' 
Distrib. — Drier parts of India. 
XIII.— MELIACE^. 
34. Amoora Roxb. 
26. Amoora cucullata Roxb.; F. B. I. i. 560. Andersonia 
cucullata F. I. ii. 212. E. D. A 983. 
General, in swamp-forests, from the northern border to the sea-face. 
Vernac. Amur; Latmi, Natmi. 
A considerable tree, 30-4.0 feet high ; wood hard, apt to split, of red or brown 
colour, used for posts and fuel ; leaves when bruised applied to reduce inflam- 
mation ; roots with vertical blind suckers. 
Distrib.— Andamans ; Malay Peninsula. 
35. Carapa Aubl. 
Roots with vertical blind suckers ; evergreen ; bark smooth ; flowers 
February-March ; fruits the size of an orange 
moluccensis var. gangetica. 
Roots with no root-suckers; deciduous ; bark rough ; flowers most of 
the year ; fruits the size of a shaddock • » ' . obovata, 
27. Carapa moluccensis Lamk var. gangetica. 
Forests east of the Arpangassia, in swampy localities, ! Lace ! 
Vernac. Pussur, 
A tree 60 feet high ; leaves fall after the new flush so that the species is 
practically evergreen ; bark dark-brown, moderately exfoliating, deep-red within ; 
wood white, reddening on exposure, hard, used for tool-handles, hand-spikes, 
helves, wheel-spokes, house-posts, planking; withstands moisture. The tree 
exudes a clear, brown, brittle gum : the fruit yields an illuminating and lubricating 
oil. The roots send up copious blind root-suckers. 
This is, at least, a very distinct variety of C. moluccensis and may prove to 
be a distinct species ; the shape of the leaflets is different, though the texture is much 
the same. The flowers, however, are the same in size and structure and it further 
agrees with typical C. moluccensis in the size of its fruit and in its habit of send- 
ing up blind root-suckers. In the Sundribuns this tree affects only the lowest parts 
of the interior of the swampy islands. The leaflets, though with more rounded 
