canton

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The average fruit is so poor that most foreigners never give any attention to the santol, and the fruit is a drug even in the native markets and enormous quantities annually rot on the ground.

From The Philippine Agricultural Review Vol. VIII, First Quarter, 1915 No. 1 by Various

The root of the santol is aromatic, stomachic and astringent, by virtue of which latter property it is used in Java in the treatment of leucorrhœa.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

In sparsely-settled districts the pogot also inhabits santol, tamarind, and lomboy trees.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 by Various

Its thick, tough “rind” should make the santol at least equal to the mangosteen as a shipper.

From The Philippine Agricultural Review Vol. VIII, First Quarter, 1915 No. 1 by Various

Uses.—The santol is doubtless one of the best known fruits in Manila.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers