CORDIA MYNA. Linn. Lebuk of Avicenna.
Mocbayet of Forskal. Cordia-domestica, Both.
Prunus sebestana, Pluk. Sebestana domestica, Lam. Cornus sanguinea, Forsk. S. myxa, Comma.
Cordia officinalis, Lam. S. officinalis, Geertn.
The Fruit.
Behuari, . . . . BENG. Buhoorearuka, . . SANSK. Tha nat, . . . BUM!. Lolu, SINGH.
Bukhoor,. . . . DEO. Vidi maram, . TAM.
Sepistan plum tree, ENG. Nakkeru ; Iriki, TEL.
Lasura, Gondni, . HIND. Pedda botuku, . „ Kendal, . . . . JAv. Mookooroo karra, „ A pretty large tree, a native of Egypt, Persia, Arabia, Ceylon, the forests of the Godavery, Hindustan, and Nepal. It grows wild in the Siwalik up to 4000 feet, and it is common through out the Konkan, Pegu, and the Malay Peninsula. The trunk is from 8 to 12 or 15 feet high, gene rally crooked, but as thick as, or thicker than, a man's body, with numerous spreading branches bent in every possible direction, and forming a dense shady head. The wood is soft, and of little use except for fuel. In Sind, fuse is prepared
from the grey cracked bark. It is reckoned one of the best kinds of wood for kindling lire by friction, and is thought to have furnished the wood from which the Egyptians constructed their mummy cases. The wood and bark are said by Dr. Royle to be accounted a mild tonic. Its dried fruit is the smaller sebestens or lobestens of Euro pean medicine; it is a yellow berry, with a strong, sweetish taste, and serves as a preserve ; the mucilage of the fruit is demulcent. The root is said to be purgative. The larger fruit is called lasura, and the smaller variety lasuri ; its seeds are the Chakoon ki binj, HIND., used in powder mixed. with oil as an application in ringworm.— Roxb. ; O'Sli. ; Stewart ; Royle; Brandis; Riddell; Bird. ; Powell; Eng. Cyc. ; Fl. And.; Voigt ; Thw.