652 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



pair ; stipules sheathing, large, broadly ovate, connate. Flowers 

 fragrant, peduncled, white, turning yellow ; tube l-2in., lobes 5, 

 obovate-oblong. Fruit ovoid, crowned with persistent Calyx- 

 limb. Pericarp thick, woody ; endocarp thick, woody, nearly 

 2-celled, with prominent placentas. 



Use : — The tree gives a gum resin from wounds in the bark 

 and, from leaf-buds. This is hard, opaque yellow, greenish or 

 brown with strong smell, and is used in cutaneous diseases and 

 to keep off flies and worms (Gamble) . 



603. G. gumnifera, Linn, h.f.b.i., hi. 116 ; 

 Roxb. 238. 



Vern. : — Dekamali, kamarri, (Hind.) ; Baruri, barui (Kol.) ; 

 Papra, kamarri (C. P.) ; Chitamatta, chitnityal, gaggaru(Tel), ; 

 Chitta, kambia (Kan.) ; Dikemali (Bom.). 



Habitat: — Chota Nagpore, Western Peninsula from the Sat- 

 pura range southward. Central and South India ; in the Central 

 Provinces, Dekkan, Konkan, Chittagong (Gamble). 



A small tree ; " a woody bush," says J. D. Hooker. Bark 

 greyish brown, smooth, Jin. thick. Wood yellowish- white, 

 close-grained, hard. The buds yield a resinous, bright yellow 

 gum, transparent and pleasant to chew, used like the gum-resin 

 yielded by G. lucida. Gamble says he has never seen the gum 

 procured from the bark. Leaves lj-2|in., coriaceous, cuneate 

 or obovate, shining, sessile or sub-sessile ; base acute, obtuse or 

 cordate ; sometimes puberulous beneath ; nerves 15-20 pair. 

 Stipules connate, truncate or mucronate. Flowers subsessile, 

 white. Calyxlimb shortly tubular, teeth stout, subulate ; lobes 

 5-6. Corolla-tube l-2in., glabrous or pubescent ; limb l-3in. 

 diam., lobes 5, oblong, obtuse. Fruit l-l£in., ellipsoid or 

 oblong, with a stout beak, smooth ; pericarp thin, woody, 

 endocarp 4-5-valved (Roxburgh), thin, crustuceous, nearly 4-5- 

 celled (Brandis) ; placentas 4-5. 



Uses : — The gum obtained from this plant is used internally 

 in dyspepsia accompanied by flatulence. In veterinary medi- 

 cine, it is employed to keep off flies from sores (Dymock). 



