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A small tree, with pale, smooth bark ; young twigs glabrous. 

 Wood close-grained, rather hairy, yellowish white. Leaves 

 opposite or some alternate, 3-5in., oval or oblong-oval, acute at 

 base, usually shortly acuminate, obtuse, entire, glabrous and 

 shining, especially above, dark green ; petioles about Jin. 

 Flowers pale, yellowish green ; about fin., on rather long pedicels, 

 loosely arranged in pyramidal divaricate, corymbose Cymes on 

 long, straight, axillary peduncles. Calyx-lobes short, broad ; 

 petioles fin., strap-shaped, acute, inflexed at tip, hairy within 

 the base, supersistent ; stamens shorter than petals, 4, inner 

 shorter, filament slightly dilated at base ; disk tomentose, ovary 

 tomentose, style very short ; fruit nearly globular, harder in 

 centre, but with no distinct stone, 4-celled. 



Uses: — According to Dr. Trimen, the bark is used in Ceylon 

 as an external application to sores and ulcers. The whole plant, 

 says he, when bruised, has a warm terebinthinate scent. 



The leaves have an orange-like smell when crushed, and 

 are burnt near small-pox patients, with a view to curative 

 effects (Stewart). 



231. Murraya Koenigii, Spreng, e.f.b.i., i. 503. 

 Syn. :— Bergera Koenigii, Linn. Roxb. 362. 

 Sans. : — Surabhi-nimbu ; Paribadhra. 



Vern. :— Harri, Katnim (H.) ; Barsinga (B.) ; Gandla, gandi, 

 bovvala (Pb.) ; (Guj and Porebunder) Kadhinimb, Kadu-pab, 

 Jhirang (Bomb.) Kadhi-nimb ; Godanimb (Mar. and Bomb) ; 

 Karee-pan, Karya-pan (Dec.) ; Karu-Veppilai, Karu-Vembu 

 (Tarn.); Kari-vepa-chettu (Tel.); KariVempu, Mishta-Nimb (Tarn.) 

 Karapincha (Sinhalese). 



Habitat : —Along the foot of the Himalayas, from Garwhal 

 to Sikkim, Bengal, and southward to Travancore. 



A small, strong-smelling tree, deciduous in the hot season 

 for a short time, umbrageous when in foliage, pubescent, nearly 

 glabrous, unarmed. Bark thin grey or dark grey, with shallow 

 netted fissures. Wood greyish white or pale brownish yellow, 

 hard, close-grained, durable. Branches slender, young parts 



