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longer pedicels, marked with scar of small caducous bracts. 

 Calyx tomentose, campanulate, shortly and broadly 3-lobed. 

 Petals thinly tomentose above. Ovary glabrate, equalling the 

 stout style. Drupe l-2in. long, ellipsoid or ovoid, tapering, 

 with a thick, bony stone. 



Fart used : — Gum. 



Uses : — According to Dr. Bidie, the resin is used as a sub- 

 stitute for Burgundy pitch in making plasters. Also employed 

 with gingelly oil in rheumatic pains (Watt ii. 96). 



259. C. bengalense, Roxb. h.f.bj., i. 534. 

 Roxb. 504. 



Habitat : — Sylhet and the adjoining districts. 

 Vern. : — Gogul-dhup (Nepal) ; Narokpa (Lepcha) ; Tekreng 

 (Garo); Bisjang, dhuna (Assam). 



A tall, ever-green, glabrous tree. Bark Jin. thick, rather 

 smooth, greyish white, with numerous lenticels, peeling off in 

 small round thick flakes. Wood soft, sap wood yellowish white, 

 heartwood reddish brown. Extremities rusty, pubescent, glabrate, 

 with subulate stipules. Leaves l-2ft. Leaflets sub-opposite, 

 13-21, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, 3-6 byl-2 

 in. Panicles racemiform, from upper axils, shorter than or 

 equalling the leaves ; buds cylindrical. Calyx cupuliform, 

 3-fid. Petals obvate oblong, 3, imbricate ; filaments confluent, 

 half their length. Disk hirsute, within the stamens. Drupe 

 ellipsoidal, smooth, size of a large olive, 1-3 — celled, dark purple, 

 pruinose. Stone trigonous, thick, bony. Cotyledons contortopli- 

 cate. A clear, amberlike resin exudes from wound in the bark. 



Use :--The leaves and bark are used externally for rheu- 

 matic swellings (Watt ii. 94). 



N. 0. MELIACEiE. 

 260. Turrcea villosa, Benn. h.f.b.l, i. 542. 



Vern : — Kapur-bhendi (Bom.). 



Habitat : — Western Peninsula ; on the Anamally and 

 Alahableshwar hills ; Guzerat at Dolca. 



