Crossword-Solution: CALOTROPIS 10 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The charcoal here used is made from an _Acacia_: the Seiks, I believe, employ _Justicia Adhatoda,_ which is also in use all over India: at Aden the Arabs prefer the _Calotropis_, probably because it is most easily procured.

The pass is well wooded, with abundance of bamboo, _Bombax, Cassia, Acacia,_ and _Butea,_ with _Calotropis,_ the purple Mudar, a very handsome road-side plant, which I had not seen before, but which, with the _Argemone Mexicana,_ was to be a companion for hundreds of miles farther.

Surface 51 degrees 28 inches 68 degrees Finding the fresh milky juice of _Calotropis_ to be only 72 degrees, I was curious to ascertain at what depth this temperature was to be obtained in the sand of the river-bed, where the plant grew.

Before daylight the following morning the sand had cooled to 43 degrees, and the leaves of the _Calotropis_ to 45.5 degrees.

These tall, gaunt edifices sometimes give place to clumps of cottages, and a mass of dusty ruins, the unsavoury retreats of vermin and filth, where the _Calotropis arborea_ generally spreads its white branches and glaucous leaves--a dusty plant.