Flora Medica

AURANTIACE.E.Branches armed with simple spines. Leaflets 5-7, small, obovate,smooth. When young very thin, when old firm, and almost coriaceous,common petiole with a narrow margin, jointed. Calyx teeth pink ;petals paler; anthers crimson. Fruit fleshy, extremely acid beforematurity, when ripe filled with dark brown agreeable subacid pulp,large, spheroidal, rugged, often warted externally, containing 5 parcelsof roundish-oblong, flat, woolly seeds adhering to the branched placentae,by means of long cords. Both leaves and flowers exhale apowerful odour of Anise.&GLE.Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx 4 5-toothed. Petals 4-5,spreading. Stamens 30-40 ;filaments distinct : anthers linearoblong.Ovary 8-15-celled : ovules numerous in each cell ;style very short and thick ;stigma capitate. Fruit baccate, witha hard rind, 8-15-celled : cells 6-10-seeded. Seed-coat woolly,covered over with a slimy liquid. Trees with simple spines.Leaves pinnate: leaflets 3, occasionally but very seldom 5,oblong or broad-lanceolate, crenulated, inconspicuously dotted,unequal, the terminal one the largest. Peduncles axillary, fewflowered:pedicels long. Flowers large. W. and A.315. JE. Marmelos Corr. in Linn, trans, v. 222. Roxb. corom.t. 143. fi.ind. ii. 579. DC. prodr.i. 538. W. and A.ii.i. 96. Feronia pellucida Roth. nov. sp. p. 384. DC. prodr.i. 538. Crataeva Marmelos Linn. sp. pi. 637. iii. t.(Rheede 37.Rumph. i. t. 81.) All parts of the East Indies.Mahura As. res.)(Bilva orTrunk pretty erect. Bark ash-coloured. Branches few and irregular.Thorns axillary, in pairs, single, or none, very sharp and strong. Leavesternate. Leaflets oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, attenuated to a bentpoint, crenulate, differing much in size, but the exterior one is alwaysthe largest. Panicles small, terminal, and axillary. Flowers large andwhite hermaphrodite. Calyx 4- or 5-toothed. Petals 45. Filamentsabout 40, short. Anthers linear, erect. Berry large, spheroidal,smooth, with a hard shell, and 10-15 cells, which contain besides theseeds, a large quantity of a tenacious transparent gluten, which on dryingbecomes very hard, but continues transparent ;when fresh itmaybe drawn out into threads of 1 or 2 yards in length, and so fine as tobe scarcely perceptibleto the naked eye, before it breaks. Seeds from6 to 10 in each cell, oblong, a little compressed, woolly, attached to theinner angle of their cell. Fruit nutritious, warm, cathartic, delicious.Its aperient and detersive quality, and efficacy in removing habitualcostiveness have been proved by constant experience. Root, bark, andleaves reckoned refrigerants by 'the Malabar physicians.CITRUS.Flowers usually in a quinary proportion. Calyx urceolate,3-5-cleft. Petals 5-8. Stamens 20-60 : filaments compressedat the base, and there more or less united and polyadelphous:162