KATOU-PATSJOTTI.

Katou-patsjotti and Tsjotti to the Malabarese, Samenotti to the Brahmins, Salaõ to the Portuguese, and Lerick to the Dutch, is a low small tree with a thin, whitish trunk, covered with a grayish-red bark.

The root is whitish, surrounded by a reddish bark, foul-smelling, and unctuous.

The leaves are oblong-round, pointed, crenated on the margin, thick, shining dark green on the upper side, and greenish, soft, and downy Latin: tomentosa on the lower side; with several nerves running from the central rib to the sides.

The flowers are attached to the shoots in clusters at the base of the leaves; they consist of three reddish-yellow, subrotund, and shell-hollow petals; they have no scent.

The fruits follow the flowers in a similar manner, received by quinquepartite calyces, subrotund, ending in a sharp point at the front, furrowed with three angles, and covered with a thick, green bark: in the center, three oblong-round, three-sided, purple-blackish seeds lie hidden, separated by membranous pellicles, so that each one lies hidden in its own cell.

It grows in various places in the Malabar kingdom, especially in Candenate; it is always green, and bears fruit every year, namely in the months of September and October.

It has no use in medicine.