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connected below ; ovary included in the perianth, densely clothed 

 with a thick covering of stellate hairs and minute red granular 

 bodies ; styles 3, broad, spreading, covered on their inner surface 

 with long papillary processes. Capsule trigonous-globular, about 

 ths of an inch in diameter; pericarp tough, greenish, more or 

 less covered with a bright crimson layer of minute, readily 

 detached granules, dehiscing septifragally by 3 valves. Seeds one 

 in each cell, short, round on back, flat in front, attached to 

 summit of axis, dark purple-brown, smooth, without a caruncle. 



Habitat. This tree is widely distributed through the Bast, from 

 Abyssinia (Hanbury) to the Indian peninsula, where it is common 

 in the sub-Himalayan tract, ascending to 4500 feet, Ceylon, 

 Malaya, the Philippines, Hongkong, and Australia, flowering 

 November to January. It is cultivated in a few botanic gardens 

 in this country, but has not yet flowered with us. 



Roxb., PL Ind., iii, p. 827 ; Benth., PL Hongkong., p. 307 ; Benth., 

 PL Austral., vi, p. 141 ; Miill. Arg. in DC. Prod., 1. c., p. 980 ; 

 Brandis, Forest PL Ind., p. 444. 



Official Part and Names. KAMALA. A powder which consists of 

 the minute glands that cover the capsules of Rottlera tinctoria, 

 Roxb. (B P.)- A powder which consists of minute glands 

 (Kamala) that cover the capsules (I. P.) EOTTLERA, Kameela. 

 The glandular powder and hairs obtained from the capsules of 

 Hottlera tinctoria, Roxburgh (U. S. P. Secondary). 



Production and Collection. Kamala is produced in several parts 

 of India, from which it is imported into this country and else- 

 where. The following particulars of its collection in the north- 

 west provinces of the Madras Presidency are derived from 

 Pharmacographia : " Enormous quantities of Rottlera tinctoria 

 are found growing at the feet of these hills, and every 

 season numbers of people, chiefly women and children, are 

 engaged in collecting the powder for exportation to the plains. 

 They gather the berries in large quantities, and throw them into 

 a great basket, in which they roll them about, rubbing them with 

 their hands so as to divest them of the powder, which falls 



