N. 0. ItUTAOliJE. 
279 
“ From its greater abundance and cheapness, the Wood-apple 
( Feronia elephantum) is occasionally substituted for the Bael- 
fruit in the bazaar when the latter is sold in large quantities, 
but there will be no difficulty in distinguishing them from each 
other, if the following distinctions be attended to 
Bael-fruit of both varieties. 
1. Generally roundish, ovoid or 
obovate, and sometimes oblong. 
2. Generally about the size of a 
large orange, often as big as a large 
pomegranate, and sometimes attains 
the size of a small child’s head. 
3. Greenish or yellowish brown in 
color, smooth and slightly shining. 
4. Rind very hard, woody and thin. 
Wood-apple. 
1. Almost always round or spheri- 
cal. 
2. Generally about the size of an 
orange, and often as large as a pome- 
granate. 
3. Greenish white or ash colored, 
neither smooth nor shining. 
4. Rind hard, woody, and though 
somewhat thicker, yet more easily 
broken. 
5. In the centre of the pulp there 
are from five to eighteen small cells, 
each of which contains some mucus, 
and from one to twelve or more seeds. 
(In the small variety of bael-fruit, the 
seeds are often absent in some cells.) 
6. The sefeds are oblong, flat or 
compressed, woolly, and about the size 
of a lime-seed. 
7. The mucus is thick, very tenaci- 
ous, transparent, and strongly tero- 
binthinate in smell and taste, 
8. When the fruit is quite ripe, the 
pulp is of a brownishred or reddish 
yellow color, with a strong balsamic 
odour and sweetish taste. 
5. No cells at all, and the seeds 
are numerous and embedded in the 
pulp. A fruit contains about 500 seeds. 
6. The seeds are generally about 
the same shape, but onehalf smaller 
in size. 
7. Contains no mucus, but is acid 
from the presence of citric acid. 
8. In the same condition, the pulp 
is of a reddish grey or flesh color, 
with a very agreeable and slightly 
aromatic odor and sub-acid taste" 
Sheriff.) 
M' A 
N. 0. SIMARUBEiE. 
243. Ailanthus glandulosa, Desf . ; h.f.b.i., i. 518. 
Eng. Syn. : — Japan Varnish Tree. 
Habitat : — Northern India. 
A lofty tree ; leaves pubescent or sub-glabrous ; leaflets very 
coarsely toothed at base, very numerous, divided very unequally 
