DIPTEROCARPUS INDICUS. (Nat, ord. Dipterooarpere.) 



i-'IPTEROCARPUS. Gcertn. — GEN. CHAE. Tube of the calyx, when in flower free, divisions unequal slightly imbricate when very young, 

 "but soon open or subvalvate, tube of the calyx when in fruit enlarging and enclosing the fruit, 2 of the divisions expanding into long erect wings, the other 

 3 small, stamens numerous, anthers linear entire, valves equal, connective acuminate or produced into a long beak, ovary 3 celled, cells 2 ovuled, styla 

 filiform entire or obsoletely 3 toothed, capsule woody indehiscent 1 rarely 2 seeded enclosed on the enlarged calyx, cotyledons very large fleshy unequal 

 corrugately lobed or contortuplicate, radicle superior. Lofty trees, bearing resin, stipules large enclosing the bud at the apex of the branches early 

 caducous, leaves coriaceous entire or sinuato-dentale, parallely penniveined and transversely venulose between the veins, flowers large in axillary few 

 flowered racemes (Pterygium, Corr in Ann. Mus. Par. viii. 397.) 



DlPTEROCARPUS INDICUS. (Bedd.) A lofty tree, everywhere glabrous except the stipules petals andovary, leavag 

 ovato-oblong with a short acumination, about 5 inches long by 2^ broad, petioles l§-2 inches long, racemes axillary solitary a little 

 shorter than the leaves 5-8 flowered, petals puberulous on the outside, anthers terminated with a long slender bristle, fruit about 

 1 inch in diameter not ribbed, wings about 5 inches long. Bedd. in Conservator of Forests Report (Madras) for 1864-65. 



Common, in all the ghat forests from Canara down to Cape Comorin, very abundant in S. Canara, where it is called Guga ; its timber 

 is very open in the grain and not durable, but is occasionally used for various purposes ; the tree yields a wood oil, but it is, I believe, never- 

 extracted ; the liquid balsam, like Copaiba sold in Trevandrum, and the produce of a tree from those ghats is extracted from the Hardwichia 

 ■pinnata. 



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