: - GUTTIFERA: 173 
fallen leaves; buds globose; pedicels 1 inch, slender; calyx 
_ bursting into 2 valves, reflexed during flowering ; petals 4, 
_ thin; deciduons, white; stamens many ; style subulate; stigma 
broad, discoid: The flowers are often hermaphrodite in culti- 
‘ , vation, The dried buds are of a reddish brown colour and of 
the size of a small clove. 
“Commerce.—N&gkesar comes principally from ee 
See Rs. 2- 12 to 3 per maund of 28 lbs. 
CALOPHYLLUM INOPHYLLUM, Linn. 
Fig.— Wight. Ill. i., 128; Ic. t. 77. Sweet-scented Calo- 
-phyllum, Aloxandrtadtaied ( Tiny: A Scisan phe ads ——— 
(Fr). 
e Hab. Ww. Pitta Ceylon, EB. hema Andamans, / 
‘he oil and seeds. 
Vernacular, —Sultan Chsitipe (Hind 5, Undi (Mar. ); Puatat 
m (Tam.), Punnégamu, Ponna-chettu (Te el.), Suragonne- 
mara (Can.). The oil, Sarpan-ka-tel (Hind.), Undi-che-tel 
(Mar.), Pannai-tailam, Punnai-kai, Pinna-cotai (Tam.), Laurel 
nut oil (fng.). 
History, Uses, &c.—This tree, wild, or in a cultivated 
_ state, is widely distributed throughout India, and is considered 
by some to be the Punndga or Késava of Sanskrit writers, but 
as its flowers are not collected, and those of Ochrocarpus are, 
and are still known as Punnéga in Marathi, it seems probable 
that the latter plant is the true Punndga. The natives appear 
to Sth t  vatieti | . The Alexan? 
reenish-coloured oil is expressed from the seeds, which is — 
sed for burning by the poorer classes, and is valued as 5a 
ion to exanthematous iene and. the seeds p 
h cashewnut seeds, Berge: ‘and w’s 
