KATOU-MAIL-ELOU.

Decorative drop cap 'K' in a square frame, adorned with elaborate floral scrollwork and foliage. Katou-mail-Elou to the people of Malabar Modern Malayalam: Kattu-mayila, Davi-riuti to the Brahmins, Carilha de Serra to the Portuguese literally "Mountain Curry", Wilde loop-bessen to the Dutch literally "Wild running-berries", is a tree of vast size, taller than the preceding species, adorned with green, four-angled, and downy branches spreading out in a circle; the wood is white-streaked, protected by a dark outer bark, which is reddish on the inside.

The root is thick, fibrous, and whitish, covered with a bark that is red on the outside and yellowish within; it is fragrant but tasteless.

The leaves are paired on short stalks, attached in parallel order to long, round, thick, and downy branchlets; they are oblong-round, thick, soft, and covered in fine hairs tomentosa (tomentose: covered with densely matted woolly hairs), dark green on the upper surface and light green beneath; the midrib is thick and protruding on the underside, from which many transverse veinlets run toward the upper parts, curving into one another: the taste is harsh, and there is no scent.

Numerous small flowers are produced everywhere around the ends of the branchlets in clusters among the leaves, not scattered, and as their small stalks gradually extend, they open in the appearance of an umbrella umbellæ (umbel: a flower cluster where stalks spring from a common center), not unlike the flowers of the Mail-Elou, but larger.

The fruits, held in their own husks calycibus (calyx: the protective outer layer of a flower or fruit), follow the flowers with equal fertility, similar to the fruits of the Mail-Elou.

It grows in the mountainous and rocky places of the Kingdom of Malabar, especially in Candenate likely Kaduthuruthy, and around Cochin; it is evergreen, flowering and fruiting every year, and remains surviving for more than two hundred years.

Furthermore, the wood of the tree is suitable for craftsmanship. Additionally, the remarkable powers of this same tree are praised for treating diarrhea, dysentery, and straining tenesmo (tenesmus: the distressing sensation of needing to evacuate the bowels even when they are empty). From the leaves, cooked with pepper and the seed of Codda-pala in an infusion of rice, an antidote is made against snake-