DIPTEROCARPEH. .  — 191 
DIPTEROCARPE. 
DIPTEROCARPUS TURBINATUS, pees 
Fig.—Rozb. Cor. Pl. iii., 10, t. 213. ; 
Hab.—Eastern Bengal, Eastern Peninsula. 
DIPTEROCARPUS INCANUS, Roxb. 
Hab.—Chittagong, Pegu. * 
DIPTEROCARPUS ALATUS, Roxb. 
a Fig.—Gartn. f. Fruct., iii. 50, t. 187. 
| Hab.—Chittagong, Burma, Tenasserim, Andamans. Oil 
‘ree. The oleo-resin, Garjan Balsam, Wood oil (Hng.). 
- Vernacular.—Garjan-ka-tel (Hind., Bomb., &c.), Yennai 
Tam..). 
History, Uses, &c.—Seventeen species of Dipterocar- 
us are noticed in Hooker’s Flora of British India as growing 
‘in India and the Kastern Islands, but the three placed at the 
head of this article produce most of the Garjan Balsam of com- 
‘merce. The Balsam does not appear to have been made much 
use of asa medicine by Hindus or Mahometans, for we have 
not found it noticed at any length in their standard works on 
‘Materia Medica. Under the name of Dubn-el-Garjan, a short 
‘notice of it will be found in the Makhzan. Ainslie mentions 
use. by the natives of Southern India in gonorrhea, It 
lopaiba, but has never displaced that drug even in India, 
though favourable reports of its properties have from time 
time appeared in the Medical journals. The natives of, the 
