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325. — Pistacia integerrima, Steioart, h.f.b.i., 

 ii. 13. 



Syn. : — R. Kakrasingee, Royle, 111. 175. 



Sans. : — Karkatasringi. 



Vern. :■ — Kakrasingi (H. and B.) ; Kaka, kakar, kangar, 

 tuga (Pb.) ; Kakkatashingi (Tarn.) ; Kakra, galls-kakra-singi 

 (Hind.) kakrashingi (Mar.) (Guz,) ; Galls : — kakrasringi (Beng.) ; 

 Kakhar, drek, gurgu (Kashmir) ; Kaugar, khaugar, kakar, 

 kakkar, khakkar, kakkrei, kakra, kakkeran, kakraiu, kakkran- 

 gelie, kakla, drek, gurgu, tauhari, taugu, shno, sarawau, masna. 

 Galls: — Kakra-singi Fruit: — Sumak (P. B.) ; Sarawau, shne, 

 masna, (Pushto). Galls: — Kakka-tashingi ; (Tam.) ; Galls: — 

 Kakarashingi (Tel.) Galls : — Dusptapu chattwa (Kan.). 



Habitat. — Sulaiman and Salt Ranges, Punjab. Outer 

 Western Himalaya, extending as far as Kumaon, Junsar and 

 Tebri-Garbwal. 



A middle-sized, deciduous tree. Bark grey, rough. Wood 

 very hard, close and even-grained. Sapwood white. Heart- 

 wood yellowish brown, beautifully mottled with yellow and 

 dark veins. Young shoots red. Leaves aromatic, alternate, 

 impari-or paripinnate, finely pubescent when young, 6-9in. 

 long ; leaflets 4-6 pair, usually opposite or subopposite (Kanjilal) ; 

 minutely petioluled, 3-6 by 1-lfin., lanceolate from an oblique 

 base, long, acuminate, entire, hard, coriaceous, glabrous; main- 

 lateral nerves about 20 pair, slender. Inflorescence a lateral 

 panicle. Flowers small, apetalous, dioecious. Male flowers : 

 Panicles 2-4in. long, compact, pubescent. Calyx gamosepalous, 

 3-5ft. Stamens 5-7 on a black disk ; anthers large red. 

 Female flowers : Panicles 6-10in. long, lax, thyrsoid. Sepals 

 4, free, linear, deciduous. Ovary sessile, 1-celled. Styles 3. 

 Cohering near the base. Drupe Jin. diam., oblique, broader 

 than long, glabrous, rugose. Irregularly shaped galls, called 

 Kakra singi, from the leaves, often 6-7in. long. 



Part used : — The gall. 



Uses : — By the Sanskrit writers the gall is considered as 

 tonic, expectorant and useful in cough, phthisis, asthma, fever, 

 want of appetite and irritability of the stomach. The usual 



