PATSJOTTI.

Tab. 5.

A decorative woodcut initial 'P' features intricate floral and foliate scrollwork.

Patsjotti to the Malabarese and Brahmins, by whom it is also called Sameno, Olheira to the Portuguese, Oogappelen to the Dutch; it is a tree similar in size to a plum, with a trunk that is not very thin, ash-colored, provided with a bitter-sweet bark, and also adorned with greenish branches spread in a circle.

The Root is fibrous, whitish, surrounded by a blackish bark, and has a bitter-sweet taste.

The Leaves are oblong-round, pointed, serrated at the edges, thick, dense, smooth, and shiny, dark green above and greenish below, with several nerves running out to the sides from a central rib; the taste is bitter-sweet and wild.

The small flowers are whitish and sweet-scented, adhering to the shoots in clusters; they consist of five oblong-cylindrical, pointed leaves, with five yellowish stamens occupying the center.

The flowers are succeeded in the same way by fruits which are round, crowned at the top by an upright flower calyx, green at first, then bluish-black, and containing a blackish stone which encloses a whitish kernel of a sweet and astringent taste.

It is born in sandy and rocky places in Oedcampere and Candenate. It is an evergreen, flowers every year, and exhibits mature fruit in the month of December.

Furthermore, the leaves of the tree boiled in oil are said to correct eye ailments. The bark of the root, ground with a little cinnabar original: "cinnabaris" — a bright red mineral form of mercury sulfide and woman’s milk, heals ophthalmia an inflammation of the eye or conjunctiva: From the same...