N. O. SIMARUBEiE. 297 



enclosed in ovate-rotundate toinentose bracts. Flowers variable 

 in size, normally 3-merous ; female flowers \ to over Jin. in 

 length. Calyx campaimlate. Stamens in maleflowers, insert- 

 ed around the hairy rudiment of ovary. Ovary glabrous, in- 

 crassate above. Drupe ellipsoidal, subtrigonous with a bony 

 1-3 — celled stone. Cotyledons tripartite, contorted (Blume). 



Use : — The gum, according to Ainslie, has the same pro- 

 perties as balsam of copaiba. It is applied in the form of an 

 ointment to indolent ulcers. The oil expressed from the 

 kernels might be substituted for almond oil. 



258. 0. striatum, Roxb. h.f.b.i., i. 534 ; 

 Roxb. 504. 



Eng. : — The black Damar tree. 



Vevn.. : — Kala dammar (H. B. and Gtiz.) ; Dhup, gugul 

 (Bom.) ; Dhup, raldhup (Mar.) : Karapu kongiliam, karapu dam- 

 mar, congiliummarum, karuppu damar (Tarn.) ; Nallarojan 

 (Tel.) ; Manda-dhup, raldhupada (Kan.) ; Thelli (Mala.). 



Habitat :— Western Peninsula, Concan, Bababuden Hills, 

 &c. 



A very large, straight, diciduous tree. Bark grey, roughish. 

 Wood moderately hard, heart-wood pink, sap wood greyish 

 white. This handsome tree, says Gamble, is one of the most 

 conspicuous trees of the Western Ghat, especially when coming 

 into new leaf, for the young leaves are of a bright crimson 

 colour, very hairy and like red velvet. Branchlets, petiole, 

 midrib and nerves beneath, densely clothed with soft reddish 

 brown tomentum. Leaves imparipinnate, l-ljft., long more 

 or less on flowering branches, varying to 4ft. Leaflets coria- 

 ceous, 12, 3-4 pair, serrate or crenulate while young, 3-6in. 

 long, by 1|-2J (5), in broad secondary nerves, prominent beneath 

 Petiole iVim- Panicles shorter than leaves, upper lateral 

 branches short or male flowers in sessile fascicles. Male flower 

 \\\\. long, in a narrow, racemiform panicle, 6-9in. long. Calyx 

 tubular, with three shallow broad teeth. Petals coriaceous, 

 oblong, rudimentary, ovary depressed, lobed, hispid. Female 



flowers in short few-fid racemes, less crowded on stout 

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