Flora Medica

AURANTIACE^:.Nat. syst.ed. 2. p. 105.BERGERA.Flowers and carpels unsymmetrical. Calyx 5-cleft. Petals5, spreading. Stamens 10: filaments distinct, subulate, compressedbelow anthers ovate. Ovary : oval, 2-celled ; with oneovule in each cell, attached byits middle to the middle of theaxis. Style long, thick. Fruit baccate, usually 1-celled and1 -seeded. Seed surrounded with mucilage: seed-coat membranous,glabrous : cotyledons glabrous, conspicuously auricledat their base : radicle villous A small tree with pinnateleaves. W. and A.313. B. Konigii Linn. mant. 565.' Roxb. corom. ii. t. 112./. ind. i. 375. DC. prodr.i. 537. W. and A. i. 94-. Mountainouscoast of Coromandel.A small tree, with the bark of an alder. Leaves stalked, unequallypinnate; leaflets alternate, short-stalked, ovate-lanceolate, rhomboidal,oblique, smooth or downy, somewhat serrated. Corymbs terminal,compound, shorter than the leaves, spreading. Bracts pressed closeto the pedicels, small, solitary, lanceolate, deciduous. Flowers smallwhite. Bark and root used as stimulants by the native physicians ofIndia ; externally employed against the bites of poisonous animals; greenleaves prescribed to be eaten raw in dysentery: also bruised andapplied externally to cure eruptions. Roxb.FERONIA.Flowers often polygamous. Calyx flat, 5-toothed. Petals 5(occasionally 4- or 6) spreading. Stamens 10: filaments dilatedand united at the base : anthers linear-oblong, tetragonal. Ovaryseated on the elevated disk, 5- (occasionally 6-) celled : ovulesnumerous in each cell. Style scarcely any. Stigma oblong.Fruit baccate, with a hard rind, 5-celled, many-seeded. Seedsimmersed in a fleshy pulp. Trees. Leaves pinnated: leaflets5-7, nearly or quite sessile, obovate, very slightly crenulated,pellucid-dotted along the margin, inconspicuously so elsewhere ;common petiole slightly winged. Racemes lax, few-flowered,terminal and axillary. W. and A.31 4-. F. elephantum Corr. in Linn, trans, v. 224. Roxb. corom.ii. t. 141. DC. prodr.i. 538. W. and A.\. 96. AnisifoliusHumph, ii. t. 4-3. East Indies. (Elephant- or wood-apple ;Capittha As. Res.)161 M