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Swingle. Krassang. Figs. 1493, 1494. Spiny tree, 25-65 ft. high, native to Cambodge and Cochin-China: lvs. odd-pinnate, 3—4-paired; lfts. covered with small whitish hairs, especially when young, pellucid-punctate, oval or obovate, crenulate when young, often emarginate, with a very short petiole; rachis pubescent; fls. in many-fid, panicles, white, very fragrant, usually 5-parted, with lanceolate pointed petals; stamens 4 times the number of petals, anthers large, oval, filaments joined together at the base by the woolly pubescence of the appendices occurring on their inner side: fr. borne in clusters of 3 or 4, flattened spheroid, 2 to 2*4 in. diam.; pulp subacid, pinkish, edible. Ill. Swingle in Bul. Soc. Bot. de France, 59, pl. 18 and fig. a, p. 778. Lecomte, Fl. gen. Indo-Chine, 1:685,:fig. 72,1-5.—This species occurs commonly in the forests of Cambodia and is sometimes cult, by the natives for its frs. which, when young, have a pronounced orange odor and are used as a condiment in sauces. Young plants of this species are growing in the greenhouses of the Dept. of Agric. at Washington, D.C.
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Feroniella oblata, Swingle. Krassang. Figs. 1493, 1494. Spiny tree, 25-65 ft. high, native to Cambodge and Cochin-China: lvs. odd-pinnate, 3—4-paired; lfts. covered with small whitish hairs, especially when young, pellucid-punctate, oval or obovate, crenulate when young, often emarginate, with a very short petiole; rachis pubescent; fls. in many-fid, panicles, white, very fragrant, usually 5-parted, with lanceolate pointed petals; stamens 4 times the number of petals, anthers large, oval, filaments joined together at the base by the woolly pubescence of the appendices occurring on their inner side: fr. borne in clusters of 3 or 4, flattened spheroid, 2 to 2*4 in. diam.; pulp subacid, pinkish, edible. Ill. Swingle in Bul. Soc. Bot. de France, 59, pl. 18 and fig. a, p. 778. Lecomte, Fl. gen. Indo-Chine, 1:685,:fig. 72,1-5.—This species occurs commonly in the forests of Cambodia and is sometimes cult, by the natives for its frs. which, when young, have a pronounced orange odor and are used as a condiment in sauces. Young plants of this species are growing in the greenhouses of the Dept. of Agric. at Washington, D.C.
    
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