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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
sappy, whitish or pale bluish edible, delicious, sweet arillus, 
with a fine rosy smell ; juice refreshing. 
Uses : — In China the leaves are stated to be officinal as a 
remedy lor the bites of animals (Duthie in Watt’s Dictionary). 
317. N. Longana, Cctmb. h.f.b.i., I. 688, Roxb. 
329. 
V ern. : — Ashphal (B.) ; Wumb, wumb-ashphal (Bomb.) ; 
Vomb (Mar.) ; Puvati, Nurai. (Tam.) ; Malalicota, Ivanakindali 
(Kan.); Kayetmauk (Lower Burma) ; Tawthayet (Upper Burma) ; 
Mora, Rasamora (Sinhalese). 
Habitat : — Westside of the Peninsula, froiu the Konkan 
southwards. Khasi Hills. Burma. 
Cultivated in N. India, Ceylon, Malaya Peninsula, Hima- 
laya, from the Jhelum to Bhutan. Delna Dun. 
A large evergreen tree, attaining 50ft. Bark smooth, 
yellowish grey. Wood red, moderately hard. Leaves paripin- 
nate, 4-18in. Leaflets 4-10 (2-5 pair) opposite, alternate 
usually rather obtuse at both ends, glabrous above, sub-glauces- 
cent, glabrous or nearly so, marked with lateral veins beneath, 
wavy, entire, base oblique. Panicles ample, rusty pubescent. 
Flowers monoecious tin. across. Calyx tomentose, segments 
5-6, narrowly imbricate. Petals pubescent, spathulate, as long 
as Calyx. Stamens 6-10 ; in the male flower long-exserted, in 
the hermaphrodite flower, as long as Calyx ; filaments hairy near 
base. Anthers glabrous, ovary 2-3-lobed, hairy. Carpel usually 
one, ovoid or globose, nearly smooth, yellowish-red, -Jin. diam. 
Seed entirely enclosed by the succulent sweet edible arillus. 
Use : — In China the fruit is reputed to be nutrient, sto- 
machic and anthelmintic (Duthie 1. c.) 
The seed of the following plant belonging to this genus has been chemi- 
cally analysed. 
Nephelium Lappaceuin, Linn, h.f.b.i., i. 687. 
The percentage composition of the ground seed is as follows. Water, 
5'87 ; fat, soluble in other and petroleum 35 07 ; ether extractive matter, in- 
soluble in petroleum, 3‘00 ; ash, 1*95 ; albumin, 8 80. Crude fibre, 6 90; 
starch, 25 63 ; sugar, l - 26. The fats consist of the triglycerides of arachic 
aud oleic acids, together with a very small quantity of the triglyceride of 
stearic acid, — J. Ch. S. LXX, pt. II, (1896), p. 209. 
