N. 0. GUTTIFERE^. 149 



Tilnor (Assam) ; Manho-la (Garo) ; Dampel, onth, ostb. (Bomb) ; 

 Jharambi ( Mar. ) ; Jwara, memadi tamalumu, chitakamaraku, 

 (Tel.) 



Habitat : — Eastern Bengal and tbe Eastern Himalaya, 

 from Sikkim to tbe Kbasia Mountains, Eastern Peninsula, 

 Western Peninsula, tbe Circars, and from tbe Bombay gbats 

 southward . There is a tree in the Victoria Gardens, Bombay. 



A medium-sized evergreen tree. Bark brown, |in. thick, 

 exfoliating in small round scales. Wood dark-greyish-brown, 

 very hard, and close-grained ; concentric bands thin, white, 

 numerous. Pores very scanty, moderate sized, scattered and 

 unevenly distributed. Medially rays fine, white, numerous, but 

 irregular. Yellow gum copious (Gamble). Foliage dense, dark 

 green, shining. Branchlets quadrangular, dilated below the nodes. 

 Leaves thickly coriaceous, oblong or elliptic-oblong, acute ; blade 

 8-14in.long, petiole f-lin.long, thick-channelled on the upperside, 

 secondary nerves numerous, parellel with shorter intermediate 

 nerves. Flowers white, fasciculate on thick uneven, axillary 

 protuberances. Pedicels lin.. petals iin.. orbicular spreading, 

 thin. Male flowers : Stamens in 5 broad bundles of 3-5, on a 

 fleshy lobed disk. Bisexual : Ovary 5-celled, stigma 5-lobed. 

 Fruit dark yellow, 2-3in. diam, of the size of an apple, 5-celled ; 

 subglobose, pointed. Seeds 1-4, oblong. 



Use : — The fruit, which is yellow and of the size of a small 

 apple and very acid, sweetish when ripe, edible, is used for the 

 same purposes as that of G. indica ; it is dried and made into a 

 kind of Amsul. In bilious conditions, a sherbet made with 

 about 1 oz. of the Amsul, with a little rock-salt, pepper, ginger, 

 cumin and sugar, is administered (Dymock.) 



131. Ochrocarpus longifolins, Benth. and 

 Hook., h.f.b.i., i. 270. 



Syn. : — Calysaccion longifolium, Wight. 

 Nagakesaram-pushpam (Sans.) 

 Vern. :— Nag-kesar-ke-phul (the flowers), (Hind.) ; Nagesarer- 

 phul (the flowers), (Beng.^i ; Surangi, tarn bra nagkesar (Bomb.) ; 



