160 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Habitat : — " Pegu, South Andamans (common), Chittagong 

 (doubtful), Tongkah in Siam on the East Coast of the Malay 

 Peninsula, at its north extremity," says Brand is. Roxbugh says 

 thus : — " Grurjin is the vernacular name at Chittagong where 

 the tree grows to a great size, and is said to furnish the largest 

 proportion of the best sort of wood oil or balsam." 



All tender parts softly hairy, pubescent, compressed, 

 branchlets, young shoots and petioles. Leaves ovate, with the 

 base somewhat tapering, obtuse, soft and villous, 6 by 4Jin., 

 thinly pubescent on both surfaces, margins cilliate, lateral nerves 

 strongly marked, 12 pair, pubescent beneath. Petiole 2in., 

 softly pubescent. Calyx-tube (in flower, softly pubescent, 

 strongly winged. ( W. T.. Thiselton Dyer). "Spikes, axillary, 

 half the length of the leaves ; belly of the Calyx simply fine- 

 winged," lioxb, (Op cit). Flowers in Nov. -Dec. Seed ripens in 

 April. Stamens indefinite. 



Use : -The species also yields most of the Gnrjun Balsam 

 of Commerce. 



140. Shorea robusta, Gcertn., h.f.b.l, i. 306. 

 Roxb. 440. 



Sans. : — Sala. Asvakarna. 



Vevn. :--Sal, sala, salwa, sakhu, sakher, sakoh (resin) = 

 rail dhuna, damar (Hind.) ; Sal, shai (resin) = rall dhuna (Beiig.) ; 

 Sarjmu, serkura. (Kol) ; Sarjom, Sontal ; Sorgi Bhumij, sekwa, 

 sekwa oraon, bolsal (Garo) ; Sakwa (Nepal) Tatural, (Lepcha) ; 

 Salwa, saringhi (Uriya) ; Sal, sarei, rinjal (C. P.) ; Sal, kandar 

 sakhu, koron (N.-W. P.) ; Koroh (Oudhj ; Sal, serai (resin) = ral, 

 dhua (Bomb.); (resin)=rala, guggul (Mar.); (resin) = ral, 

 (Guz.); (resin) = guggala (Khan.); 



Habitat : — Tropical Himalaya, and along its base, from 

 Assam to the Sutlej, Eastern districts of Central India, Western 

 Bengal Hills. 



A large gregarious tree, deciduous, but never quite leaf- 

 less. Bark off young tree smooth, with a few long, deep, vertical 

 cracks; of old trees 1-2 in. thick, dark-coloured, rough, with deep 



