a kind of medicinal fruit brought from the Indies, of which there are five kinds: 1. The citrine, of a yellowish-red, hard, oblong, and the size of an olive: 2. The black, or Indian myrobalan, of the bigness of an acorn, wrinkled, and without a stone: 3. Chebulic myrobalans, which are of the size of a date, pointed at the end, and of a yellowish brown. 4. Emblic, which are round, rough, the size of a gall, and a dark-brown: and, 5. Belleric, which are hard, round, of the size of an ordinary prune, less angular than the rest, and yellow. Each of these kinds are slightly purgative and astringent; but Quincy observes, that the best of them are not worth regarding, since they rather clog than assist any composition.