294 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



inserted. Ovary 4-5-celled, 2 collateral ovules in each cell. Fruit 

 a fleshy globose drupe, pale yellow when ripe, enclosing 2, 

 rarely more, bony, 1-seeded tuberculated stones. Fresh foliage — 

 April or May— with the flowers or after them. Leafless during 

 the greater part of the dry season. 



Parts used : — The fruit, and juice of the leaves and stem. 



Uses : — " In Salsette, near Bombay, the juice of the stem is 

 dropped into the eye to cure opacities of the conjunctiva ; the 

 fruit is pickled and eaten as a cooling and stomachic remedy. 

 In the Concan, the juice of the leaves, with that of the leaves 

 of Adhatoda Vasiea and Vitex trifolia, mixed with honey, is 

 given in asthma" (Dymock.). The epicarp of the fruit is also 

 cooked in Bombay with the flower heads of the aroid Shevala 

 plant to reduce the acrid taste of the latter, and eaten as vege- 

 table. 



254.-— Balsamodendron mukul, Hook. H. f. b. i., 

 i. 529. 



Sans. : — Konshikaha, guggulu. 



Vern. : — Gugal, mukul, ranghan turb (B., H., Dec, Guz.) ; 

 Maishlkshi, gukkal, gukkulu (Tarn.) ; Mahi-saksh gugal (Teh) 



J. Indraji :--Gugar, gugal. (Porebunder and Guj.) Mukul, 

 Gugal (Marathi) ; Gugal (Hindi). 



Arab. : — Mokl-arzak, aflatan. 



Pers. : — Boe-jahudan. 



Habitat : — Sindh, Rajputana, Bednore, Khandeish, Berars, 

 Mysore, and Bellary. 



A stunted shrub or dwarfed tree. " Bark greenish yellow, 

 peeling in long thin, shining paper-like scrolls. Wood soft, 

 white. Pores small. Medullary rays fine, short. The bark 

 yields a £um called Gugal " (Gamble). 



Branches thick, spreading, branchlets often spinescent. 

 Trunk knotty. The outer bark coming off in rough flakes, 

 leaving exposed an inner layer which is bright, shining and 

 peels off, as noted above from Gamble's remarks, like thin 



