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In Nagpur, the santras yield two crops in the year, the 
first crop from November to January, and the second in March 
and April (Brandis). 
239. — C. decumana, Linn, h.f.b.i., I. 516. 
Thfe Pomelo or Shaddock-Pumel. 
Vern. : — Mahanibu ; chakotra. ; bat&vijiebu ; Sadaphal (II.); 
Batavi nebu ; inahd nembu ; chakotra ; bator-nebu (B.); chakotra 
(Pb.) ; Bijoro (Sind.) ; Oba Kotru (Guz) ; Panas Popnas (Bomb.), 
Papnassa; 6 pappanassa (Mar.); Bombalinas (Tam.); Edapandu 
(Tel.); Sakotra hannu (Kan.). 
Habitat : — Cultivated in India. 
An evergreen tree, 30-40ft. The trees very seldom reach 
higher than 10ft. in Bombay as grafts from “ Goti.” Bark 
thick ; young shoots pubescent. Leailets large, ovate-oblong, 
0-9in., frequently emarginate, pubescent beneath, petiole 
broadly winged. Flowers large, white, highly odorous, the scent 
most delicate and delicious forming the “ Neroli Water ” very 
largely used by the European Jews of Bombay and obtained 
from Asiatic Turkey, probably Baghdad or Basorah. Stamens 
16-24. Fruit often very large, even larger than a man’s head ; 
pale yellow when ripe, with juicy vesicles pink or crimson or 
pale rosy inside, in great abundance in each carpel, sweet or acid, 
slightly bitter in some varieties. Vesicle of pulp distinct. The 
vesicular pulp is not by any means acrid, as Hooker remarks, 
but acid. The rind of the fruit is spongy, and the epicarp of 
it aromatic ; it is used by some Europeans in Bombay' for 
making Bitters,” like Angustura bitters for mixing drops of 
it with sherry as a drink before dinner (K. R. K.). 
Parts used : — The fruit and leaves. 
Use: — The fruit is nutritive and refrigerant. It contains 
sugar and citric acid, with much essential oil in the peel. The 
leaves are said to be useful in epilepsy, chorea and convulsive 
cough (Punjab Products). 
In Brazil, “ a gum which exudes in quantity from this tree 
when it begins to decay, probably in consequence of the attack 
