N. 0. SIMARUBEiE. 291 



Use : — The root and leaves are bitter, and are employed 

 in the form of a decoction in Malabar, as a tonic, stomachic 

 and anti-emetic (0 ' Shaughnessy). 



252. — Boswellia serrata, Roxb. H. F. b. i., i. 528, 

 Roxb. 365. 



Syn. : — B. thurifera, Roxb. 



Sans : — Salasi-niryasa, sallaki, kundnru, gugguli. 



Vern. : — (The gum resin) Salhe, salci or salai, saiga, sel-gond, 

 kundur, salpe, luban (H.) ; Luban, salai, kundro (B.) ; Saiga 

 (Santal.) ; Anduku, anduga, guggar, dnmsal (Knmaon) ; Salla, 

 bor-salci, ganga (Gond), Silai (C, P.) ; Salar (Ulwar) ; Salai, 

 saiga, guggula, salai-dhup, salaphali (Bom.) ; Salaphali (Mar.) ; 

 Kundur (Duk.) ; Dhup, mukul salai, gugali (Guz,) ; Saliya, 

 gugul (Cutch) ; Kungli, gugulu, kimdrikam morada, kundruk- 

 kampishin, parangi-shambi-rani (Tarn.) ; Parangi-sambrani, 

 anduga-pisunu, anduku, andu, Adak (Tel.) ; Vella-kundirukkam 

 (Mai.); Chittu Maddi (Kan.) 



Habitat : — Forests of the base of the Western Himalaya as 

 far west as the Sutlej. Central India from Behar to Rajpntana, 

 and Southward into the Dekkan and to the Circars and the 

 Conkan within 10-20 miles of the Western Ghats. 



A deciduous, middle-sized tree, with a spreading flat 

 crown. Bark nearly Jin. thick, greenish, ash-colonred, peeling 

 off in thin smooth flakes. Young shoots and leaves pubescent, 

 with simple hairs Leaves imparipinnate, crowded at the ends 

 of branches ; leaflets 8-15 pair, opposite or nearly opposite, 

 sessile, lanceolate, more or less deeply crenate, apex generally 

 obtuse. Flowers bisexual. Calyx small, 5-7-cleft, petals 5-7. 

 Stamens 10-12, inserted at the base of the red annular fleshy 

 disk. Ovary 3-celled, half immersed in the disk ; 2 collateral 

 ovules in each cell. Fruit 3-valved, the valves separating from 

 the dissepiments which remain attached to the axis. Seeds 3, 

 enclosed in heart-shaped stones attached to the inner angle. 

 Cotyledons trifid, lobes laciniate, radicle superior. 



