N. 0. MELIAOEjE. 
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outside, pubescent within. Staminal-tube somewhat tapering, 
hairy within, teeth spreading, filiform ; anthers nearly sessile ; 
style long, stigma clavate, 5-toothed. Drupe ovoid, 1-l^in., 
smooth and shining, yellowish. Seeds solitary in each cell ; 
pointed, smooth, brown. 
Part used The fruit. 
Uses : — The pulp of the fruit has a bitter nauseous taste. 
It is a favourite remedy amongst the laboring classes for colic, 
half a fruit being the dose for an adult. It appears to have 
hardly any purgative properties, but is said to relieve the pain 
most effectively. In the Concan, the juice of the green fruit, 
with a third of its weight of sulphur, and an equal quantity of 
curds, heated together in a copper pot, is used as an application 
to scabies, and to sores infested with maggots (Dymock, 173.) 
265 . Sandoricum indieum, Cav., H. f.b.i., I. 553 . 
Vern. : — Thitto (Burm.) ; Santor (Malay). 
Habitat : — Eastern Peninsula; from Rangoon, Tenasserim 
to Penang. Introduced into the Western Peninsula. 
Trimen : —Sinhalese name — Lunu-midella. Tamil — Malal- 
Vempu. 
An evergreen tree, with trifoliate, coriaceous leaves, attain- 
ing 60ft. Wood close-grained, moderately hard, medullary rays 
conspicuous on radial section. Branclilets, inflorescence and 
leaves velvety. Flowers yellow, in narrow axillary panicles. 
Staminal-tube 10-dentate, style articulate at base, clavate above, 
ending in a thickened ring, bearing five obtuse stigmatic lobes, 
fruit globose, 3in. diam,, yellow and velvety when ripe ; exocarp 
a fleshy and edible pulp, endocarp lining the cells, horny, 
covered with a densely felted mass of long pluricellular hairs, 
over gin. long. Cotyledons filled with starch and oil. 
Use The root, which is bitter, bruised with vinegar and 
water, is used by the Amboyans as a carminative and also in 
cases of diarrhoea and dysentery (Rumpliiuh). 
266 . Aglaia Roxburghiana, H. F. B. I., I. 553 . 
Syn : — Milnea Roxburghiana W. and A., A. odoratissima, 
Blume. 
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