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cracked. Wood varying from yellowish brown to reddish 

 brown, with a beautiful satiny lustre, seasons and works well. 

 Sap wood of lighter colour (Gamble.) Trunk straight, tall, 

 young pairs pubescent. Leaves pinnate, rachis 8-10in., cylin- 

 drical, softly tomentose. Leaflets 10-16, usually 12, stalked, 

 alternate, 2J-5in., ovate, very unequal at base, acuminate, acute, 

 entire, closely velvety, tomentose on both sides, dark green above, 

 paler beneath. Flowers pale green (Trimeh\ §-lin., pedicellate, 

 in large terminal pyramidal panicles. Calyx-lobes shallow, 

 rounded, hairy. Petals linear-oblong, spreading. Staminal- 

 tube iin. Style as long as staminal-tube. Capsule ljin., 

 broadly ovoid, apiculate, smooth, brown, valves woody, separat- 

 ing entirely from the 4-winged axis. Seeds closely packed, 

 compressed with abroad, obtuse, terminal wing, twice as long as 

 themselves. 



Use : — The bark is powerfully astringent (O'Shaugh- 

 nessy.) 



274. Gedrela toona, Roxb. H. f. b. l, i. 568. 

 Roxb. 663. 



Eng, : — The Toon or Indian mahogany tree. 



Sans. : — Tunna, kuberaka, nandi-vriksha. 



Vern. : — Tun, tuni, lun, mahanim, mahalimbo, tiinka- 

 jhar, tuna, lud (H.) ; Tuni, tun, lud, tunna (B.); Kujya (Tippera); 

 Somso (Bhutia); Katangi (Kol. N ; Mahalimbu (Uriya) ; Drawi, 

 cbittisirin, tun, drab, deri, bisrui, darab, khiishing, khanam 

 (Pb.) ; Tuni, babich, labshi (Nepal); Simal iLepclia; ; Poraa, 

 henduri poma, tun, jia, tunga (Ass.) ; Deodari, kiiruk (Mar.) ; 

 Deodari, kuruk, tiindu, tiin (Bom.) ; Tunu-maram, tun-maram, 

 mali, wunjuli (Tarn.); Nandi-chettu, nandi (Tel.); Arana- 

 maram (Mai.) ; Suli, mali (Salem) ; Kal kilingi (Nilgbiris) ; 

 Tundie, Kempu-gandagheri, tunda, Sanola-mara, devadari 

 (Kan.) 



Habitat :— Tropical Himalaya, from the Indus eastward, 

 and throughout the hilly districts of Central and Southern 

 India. 



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