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of Glycosmis citrifolia are delicious ; those of Triphasia are extremely a^reea- 
ble. The productiveness of the common Orange is enormous. A single tree 
at St. Michael’s has been known to produce 20,000 oranges fit for packing, 
exclusively of the damaged fruit and the waste, which may be calculated at 
one-third more. The juice of the Lime and the Lemon contains a large quan- 
tity of citric acid. Turner, 632. Oranges contain malic acid. Ih. 634. A 
decoction of the root and bark of vLgle Marmelos is supposed, on the Malabar 
coast, to be a sovereign remedy in hypochondriasis, melancholia, and palpita- 
tion of the heart ; the leaves in decoction are used in asthmatic complaints, 
and the fruit a little unripe is given in diarrhoea and dysentry. Roxburgh 
adds, that the Dutch in Ceylon prepare a perfume from the rind ; the fruit is 
most delicious to the taste, and exquisitely fragrant and nutritious, but laxa- 
tive ; the mucus of the seed is a good cement for some purposes. Ainslie, 2. 
87. The leaves of Bergera Konigii are considered by the Hindoos stomachic 
and tonic ; an infusion of them toasted stops vomiting. The green leaves are 
used raw in dysentery; the bark and root internally as stimuli. Ihid. 2. 139. 
The young leaves of Feronia elephantum havd, when bruised, a most delight- 
ful smell, very much resembling anise. The native practitioners of India con- 
sider them stomachic and carminative. Its gum is very like gum arabic. Ib. 
2, 83. See further Royle’s Illustrations, p. 129. 
GENERA. 
Atalantia, Corr. 
Triphasia, Lour. 
Limonia, L. 
Cookia, Sonner. 
Quinaria, Lour. 
Aulacia, Lour. 
Murraya, Keen. 
Marsana, Sonner. 
Chalcas, Lour. 
Bergera, Keen. 
Clausena, Burm. 
Glycosmis, Corr. 
[Feronia, Corr. 
iEgle, Corr. 
Belou, Adans. 
Citrus, L. 
Luvunga, Hamilt. 
Sclerostylis, Bl. 
Micromelum, Bl. 
Chionotria, Jack. 
Order LXXXI. SPONDIACE^. The Hogplum Tribe. 
SpoNDiACEiE, Kunthin Ann. Sc. Nat. 2. 362. (1824) ; Martius Conspectus, No. 268. (1835). 
Terebintace^, trib. 3. DC. Prodr. 2. 74. (1825). 
Essential Character. — Flowers sometimes unisexual. Calyx 5-cleft, regular, per- 
sistent or deciduous. Petals 5, inserted below a disk surrounding the ovary, somewhat 
valvate or imbricate in aestivation. Stamens 10, perigynous, arising from the same part as 
the petals. DwA annular, in the males orbicular, with 10 indentations. Ovary superior, 
sessile, from 2- to 5-celled; styles 5, very short; stigmas obtuse; ovule I in each cell, 
pendulous. Frwif drupaceous, 2-5 -celled. Seeds vfWhoxiX, albumen -, cotyledons p\diXio-con- 
vex ; radicle superior, pointing to the hilum (inferior in Spondias, according to Gcertner) . 
Trees without spines. Leaves alternate, unequally pinnate, without pellucid dots, a few 
simple leaves occasionally intermixed. Stipules 0. Inflorescence axillary and terminal in 
panicles or racemes. 
Affinities. According to the French school, related to Anacardiaceae 
in the structure of the fruit, which is almost that of Mangifera. Spondiaceae 
are, however, essentially distinguished by their syncarpous fruit, and the ab- 
sence of a resinous juice ; and appear to differ from Aurantiaceae in little be- 
yond their perigynous stamens, large disk (which is remarkably dilated), and 
undotted leaves. The transition to Aurantiaceae is through Bergera and its 
allies in the latter order. 
Geography. Natives of the West Indies, the Society Islands, and the 
Isle of Bourbon. 
