996 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



956. Gmelina arborea, Linn., h.f.b.l, iv. 581 ; 

 Roxb. 486. 



Sans. : — Kasmari (growing in Kashmere), Sarvato-Bhadra 

 (auspicious in every quarter), Shri-parni (fortune-leaved), Krishna- 

 vrintaka (black stalk), Kambari (of variegated color), Hira 

 (a plant). 



Vem. : — Kumhar gumhar, kakodrimbari (Hind, and Pb.) ; 

 Gumar, gumbar (Beng.) ; Gambari (Nepal) ; Gomari (Ass.) ; 

 Numbor (Lepcha) ; Bolkobak (Garo) ; Gumadi, cummi (Tarn.) ; 

 Giimar-tek, pedda-gomru, tagumuda (Tel.) ; Shewney, kuli 

 (Kan.) ; Kurse (Gond.) ; At-demmata (Cingh.) Shewan, Shivan 

 (Mar.). 



Habitat. — Throughout the Dekkan and Konkan, C. P., Berar, 

 North West Himalaya, Ceylon, Chittagong, Eastern Bengal. 



An unarmed deciduous tree, up to 60ft. high ; bark some- 

 what corky, greyish outside and yellow within ; young parts 

 covered with white mealy pubescence. Leaves 4-8in. long, 

 broadly ovate, acuminate, entire ; upper surface glabrous when 

 mature, lower persistently clothed with fulvous stellate hairs, 

 base cordate or truncate and shortly cuncate ; petioles 2-3in. 

 long, cylindric, puberulous, glandular at the top. Floioers 

 in small usually 3-flowered cymes which are arranged along 

 the branches of a densely fulvous-tomentose panicle, about 12in. 

 in length ; bads clavate, angled ; bracts |-in. long, linear 

 lanceolate. Calyx broadly campanulate, Jin. long, densely 

 fulvous-tomentose ; teeth small, triangular, acute. Corolla 

 5-lobed, H'm, long, brownish-yellow, very hairy outside ; 

 upper lip f-|in. long, deeply divided into 2 oblong obtusebes 

 lower lip about twice as long, 3-lobed, the middle lobe much 

 longer than the lateral ones and with a crenulate margin. 

 Drupe f-lin. long, ovoid or pyriform, smooth, orange-yellow 

 when ripe. 



Uses : — In Hindu medicine, the juice of the leaves is used 

 to remove foetid discharges and worms from ulcers (Duti). 

 The fruit is officinal in the Punjab. The root is bitter, tonic, 

 stomachic and laxative ; given in cough, rheumatism, fever and 

 indigestion, and is said to have anthelmintic properties (Watt). 



