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from all the others, in the two particulars of its
havingfronds which are bipinnated, andfolioles bifid.
For further information respecting the cocosM aldivica,
the reader may consult Sonnerat's Voyage to New
Guinea, and Gmelin Syst. Natur. ii. p. 569. I shall
merely now add, that the inhabitants of the Maldives
find the wood very valuable for ship building.
The species aculeata is the macaw tree of Jamaica.
Sloane (voJ. ii. p.121.), says, that the husks of the
fruit (which is a small, black, round nut) are full of
oil, which some consider as the real palm oil.'"
CXIX.
KADUKAI fJ>(ij'ffi'fJ)rrL..LJ (Tam.) Haritalcee
(Sans.) Cltebulic Myrobolan, or In!.' nut.
TEnMINALIA CHEBULA (Retz.).
CI. and Ord. Polygamia Moncecia. Nat. Ord.
Elreagni (J uss.).
The flower of this plant in powder, is prescribed
by the Vytians as a 'slight astringent t in diarrhcea,.
The tree has been already noticed under the head
of myrobblan chebulic, in the first chapter. It is the
araloo of the Cyngalese, and is common in the
woods of Malabar; it rises generally to the height
of twenty feet, with rather scattered branche's, having
* See Lunan's Hortus Jamaicensis, vol. i. p.468.
t Roxburgh, in vol. ii. p. 52. of the :Flora Indica, gives an account
of the galls which are found on the leaves of this terminalia;
they are called aldecay by the Hindoos of the Circars; are of an
irregular shape, and are sold in every bazar, highly valued by the
dyers; with alum, they give a durable yellow; and, with a ferrugmous
mud, an excellent black; they are considered as even more
astringent than the fruit, amI are much sought after hy the chintz
painters.