BURSERACEZ.. 819 
Vernacular —Ghogar, Kharpat (Hind.), Kankar, Kurak, 
Kusar (Mar.), Jum (Beng. ), Karivembu maram (Tam.), Garnga 
chettu (Tel.). 
History, Uses, &c Lippe Sai Todas the fruit of 
this tree, which is hia yellow and about the size of a’ 
gooseberry, is pickled and eaten as a cooling and stomachic . 
remedy ; it is strongly acid, The bark is astringent, and is 
employed in tanning. (Brandis.) Its juice, which is gummy 
and resinous, is dropped into the eye to cure opacities of the 
conjunctiva. In the Concan the juice of the leaves, with that 
of Adhatoda Vasica and Vitex trifolia, mixed with hopiizecat 
given in asthma, 
Description The gum-resin is greenish yellow, trans- 
lucent, in small mamilliform masses, having a mild terebin- 
thinate odour and taste, not unlike that of some sample 
ofelemi.. Only a small part of it is soluble in rectified spirit, » 
Chemical composition.—The gum-resin contains 765 per 
cent. of gum, 13-9 per cent. of resin, and 9°6 per cent. of 
moisture, including volatile oil. The gum is precipitated by 
ferric salts, but not by neutral plumbic acetate, it is therefore - 
similar to that of myrrh, The resin is neutral, soluble in 
Spirit of wine and ether, but not in alkalies. A clean ‘sample 
of the gum-resin left 3°75 per cent. of ash. 
CANARIUM STRICTUM, Rocb. 
Hab, —Western Peninsula, The gi, ah Decunee 
(Eng.). Oo 
Vernacular,—Kala-démar (Hind.), Karrapu-démar (Fam. 
Nalla-rajan (Tel.). 
History, Uses, &c.—The black dammar tree of: Melee - 
bar is common about Courtallum in the Tinnevelly oe ne 
®nd in Canara, In the Wynaad the Kurchias “light . 
at the base of the tree, on the side to which it it is aoe 
_ When the bark has heensohmned: te aia ins to 
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