1166 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



is incorrectly given in many books as Sanskrit for this plant, — 

 see Calopbyllum inophyllum), 



Vern.: — Kambila, kamiid, kamela, rori rohini, chamar gular, 

 bingur, sendiir, kunkii, sinduri, kambbal, vasanta-gandba 

 (powd.), >H.) ; Dhola sindur, kamila, tung, kesar ( = saffron), 

 kamala guri (tbe dye powder), (B.) ; Kumala, siindragundi, 

 bosontogundi, (JJy.) ; Rora, (Sant.) ; Gangai, pudclum, jaggarti, 

 bibang, lasson, (Ass.); Cbinderpang, machugan, (Garo) ; 

 Sinduria, safed mallata, (Nep.) ; Puroa, tnkla, numboongkor, 

 (Lep.); Baraibnri, sindnrpong, (Micbi) ; Koku, (Gond) ; Kaimbil, 

 (Kasb ) ; kamela, kambila, kamal, reini, rulya, (Pb ) ; Kambaila 

 (Pusb.) ; kamala, knnknma, kapil, shendri, shindur ; (Mar.); 

 kapilo, (Guz.) ; kapila, kamela-mavu (? pod = pollen), tbavittai, 

 knran gumanjanathi kapila rung, kapilapodi, thiruchurna 

 maram, (Tarn.) ; kunkuma, kapila, vasantagandbamu (powder), 

 chendrasindnri, siindragundi, (Teb); rangamale, corunga-manje, 

 sarnakesari, bulicbellu, kunkuma, kesala,y, kamela, (Kan.); 

 Ponnagam (? Calopbyllum inopbyllum), (Mai.); tawtbidin, 

 potbiclin, thidinbmok (tbe dye) (Burm.) ; Tawtbadin, (Sban) ; 

 Hamparandella, (Sing.). 



Dr. Bucbanan-Hamilton called the tree corunga munji maram 

 or " Monkey face tree," because these animals paint their faces 

 red by rubbing them with tbe fruit. 



Habitat : — A small, evergreen tree, found throughout tropical 

 India ; along the foot of the Himalaya from Kashmir eastwards 

 (ascending to 5,000 feet) ; all over Bengal and Burma, Singapore, 

 and tbe Andaman Islands ; and from Sind southwards to Ceylon. 

 Distributed to China, the Malay Islands, and Australia. 



A large shrub or small evergreen tree, 25-30ft., with usually 

 " buttressed " trunk, says Gamble. Bark ^in. thick, grey, inner 

 substance red, marked with irregular cracks. Wood smooth ; 

 grey to light red, hard, close-grained, no heartwood. 

 Young shoots, inflorescence, and sometimes fullgrown leaves 

 beneath clothed with flocculent cottony wool. Branches rather 

 slender. Leaves 3-9in. l^ng, alternate, ovate, ovate-oblong or 

 lanceolate, acuminate entire or sinuate- toothed, glabrous above, 

 beneath subglaucous, puberulous covered with scarlet glands, 



