N. 0. DILLENIACE*. 
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very large, 10-12 in long oblofig-lanceolate, acute, sharply 
serrate, glabrous above, finely pubescent on veins beneath ; 
lateral veins numerous, strong ; petioles 1£ in* long, stout, deeply 
channelled above, pulvinate at base. Floicers very large, 6-7 
in. diam, on stout subterminal pedicels. Sepals very fleshy. 
Petals white, sometimes pale-azure orbicular with a broad 
base. Stamens persistent, yellow. Carpels 15-20, coherent at 
the axis. Styles spreading like a 6tar, white, ripe carpels 
enclosed in the greatly enlarged and thickened sepals which 
are 1 in. thick and strongly imbricate the whole forming a large 
green globose pomiform fruit, 5-6 in. diam. Actual fruit 21- 
in. diam. Pericarp thin, indehiscent. Seeds numerous, com- 
pressed with a hairy margin. 
Uses : — The juice of the fruit, mixed with sugar and water, is 
used as a cooling beverage in fevers, and as a cough mixture. 
The bark . and the leaves are astringent, and are used medicin- 
ally. The fruit is slightly laxative, but is apt to induce diarrhoea, 
if too freely indulged in. (Roxburgh, Royle, Drury). 
The fruit gives a lather with water, says.Trimen, and is used 
as a soap. 
Mr. T, P. Ohose of Debra Dun writes in the Indian Forester 
for August 1914 : — 
The fresh ripe fruits were taken and the upper layers of calyces were 
separated from the inner kernels which consisted mostly of pectous matter 
of a jelly-like consistence. The kernels being rejected, the calyces were 
crushed and steeped in 90 per cent, alcohol for six months in a drum with 
occasional shaking. The alcohol was. then filtered off and the residue was 
pressed almost dry, and this alcohol was added to the first and the whole 
evaporated off under reduced pressure. The alcoholic extract was finally 
dried at 100° C. for further examination. 
The composition of the calyces of the fresh ripe fruits as was follows : — 
Moisture ... ... ... ... ... 8640 percent. 
Alcoholic extract ... ... ... ... 8‘00 „ 
Water extract ... ... ... ... 0'37 „ 
Insolubles ... ... ... ... ... 10'28 „ 
100-0 
The aqueous extract was made after having extracted the calyces with 
alcohol, which thus represents only pectous matters, etc., left in the insoluble 
tissues after alcoholic extraction. The alcoholic exti act examined qualitatively 
showed the presence of tannin glucose, malic acid and pectous bodies. Malic 
