K. o. gerakiace£. 
239 
Two varieties are known : say some writers sweet and sour. 
K. R. K. The fruit is sour when unripe and acid-sweet 
when ripe. 
A small densely branched tree. “ Bark dark grey with 
horizontal folds. Wood white, turning light red, moderately 
hard, close-grained. Pores moderate-sized, often subdivided 
or disposed in short radial lines, scanty, prominent on a vertical 
section. Medullary rays very fine, very numerous and regular, 
somewhat indistinct” (Gamble). Leaves alternate, exstipulate, 
pinnate with a terminal leaflet. Leaflets subopposite, ovate, 
acuminate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous and glaucous 
beneath, 2-5 pair, lj-Sin. ; petiole stout, pubescent. Flowers 
small, variegated white and purple ; panicles axillary, sometimes 
on the old wood. Calyx glabrous, half as long as the petals. 
Stamens 10-5 shorter without anthers, or sometimes one or 
two of these longer and antheriferous. Ovary pubescent. Fruit 
yellow, changing into brown ; ellipsoid, 3in. long with 5 pro- 
minent ridges, converting the fruit into one of 5 acutely angled 
lobes. Seeds arillate ; aril 2-lobed, lacerated. With regard to 
the arillus Brandis, remarks thus : — F'unicle of seed dilated 
“ into a fleshy, bilabiate, irregularly cut arillus.” It must be 
noted that, according to Edge, and Hook, F the leaflets are 
irritable to touch. 
Farts used : — The leaves, root and fruit. 
Uses : — Used as a cooling medicine. 
The acid dried fruit is given in fevers (Irvine p. 55.) It is 
cooling and useful in feverishness and possesses anti-scorbutic 
properties (Watt’s Dictionary I. p. 360.) 
“The ripe fruit, which is generally sour (though there is a 
sweet variety) and contains oxalic acid, is a good remedy for 
bleeding piles, particularly in that variety of the disease which 
is known as internal piles. I have used it in several cases 
with more or less benefit, but in a few the result was very satis- 
factory, the bleeding disappearing rapidly and permanently. 
There is no doubt that the fruit will also produce a good effect 
in haematemesis, melama, and some other forms of haemorrhage, 
