the name of an East Indian tree, with white tubular flowers, which fall off every day in great plenty. They are of a sweet agreeable smell, and the Gentoos are very fond of wearing them, stringing and hanging them about their necks and arms. The fruit is a pale red cherry, of the shape and size of our white heart cherry, but the footstalk is not quite so long. This fruit has a stone in it, containing a bitter oily kernel. The Indians rub with this oil any part stung by a scorpion or bitten by a centipede, which it soon cures. The crows are very fond of the fruit.