72 THE MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE PHILIPPINES 



A wineglassful several times a day in cholera, fevers, diar- 

 rhoea, etc. 



BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION. A small tree, trunk straight, the 

 wood white and very light in weight. Leaves 45' long, alter- 

 nate, acute, oval, entire, glabrous, coriaceous, veined. Petioles 

 very short, no stipules. Flowers in terminal umbels, each com- 

 posed of 4-6 flowerets with moderately long pedicels. Common 

 peduncle, very slender, very long, drooping. Calyx of same 

 color as corolla, inferior, very small, 4-lobuled. Corolla pur- 

 plish, very long, 4 straight, linear petals. Stamens 8, inserted 

 on the receptacle. Filaments of equal length with the petals, 

 with 1-2 appendices at the base. Anthers spiral. Ovary 5- 

 lobuled, borne on small stalk. One style of equal length with 

 the stamens, situated above the center of the 5 lobules of the 

 ovary which develop into 5 future pods. Stigma simple. Fruit 

 5 woody pods, short, united centrally above a small base, semi- 

 lunar in form, medianly expanded, venate, containing a small 

 wrinkled, kidney-shaped seed attached by a seed-stalk to the 

 superior suture. 



HABITAT. Very common and well known everywhere in 

 the Philippines. Blooms in February. 



BURSERACEJE. 



Myrrh Family. 

 Garuga pinnata, Eoxb. (G. Madagascar ensis, DC.) 



NOM. VULG. Bugo, Tag. 



USES. The fruit is slightly acid and edible. The trunk 

 exudes an abundant gum, of the odor of turpentine, translucent, 

 greenish-yellow, forming small masses slightly soluble in alco- 

 hol, soluble in water, with which a mucilage is formed. The 

 juice of the leaves is used for asthma. The sap is used in 

 Bombay to remove opacities of the cornea. There is another 

 species in the Philippines, G. floribunda, Decsne (Idea Abilo, 



