1234 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



at 138-140° separate from the solution of the resin in glacial acetic acid 

 after remaining for 24 hours. (Frank Rahak, Chem. Oentr. 1905)— J. Ch. 

 S. LXXXVII1., Pt. II., p. 911. 



1220. P. Khasya, Boyle, h.f.b.i., v. 652. 



Vern. : — Dingsa (Khasia). 



Habitat : — Khasia and Chittagong. 



A large, ever-green tree, 100-150ft. in Khasya, in Burma 

 even 200ft., with a trunk 10ft. in girth. Bark thick, with deep 

 cracks. Wood very resimous, moderately hard, pale-brown to 

 red. Resin-ducts numerous in the outer and middle belt of 

 each annual ring. Leaves 6-10in. long, slender, green, serrulate ; 

 back convex ; sheath persistent, grey, lacerated at apex, |-f in. 

 Cones solitary or in pair, sometimes in threes, ovoid, 2-3in. 

 long, greatest diam. 2in. Peduncle bracteate. Young cones 

 recurved ; beak of scales depressed, pyramidal, with a blunt 

 knob at the end, wings round, topped, 4-tunes the length of the 

 seed. Seeds fin., together with the wing. 



Use : — This species also yields ( il of Turpentine, which 

 according to the report of Professor Armstrong, F. R. S., corres- 

 ponds in properties with French Oil of Turpentine. 



1221. P. Gerardiana, Wall,, h.f.b.i., v. 652. 



Vern.: — Gonober, rhi, newr, seeds = chilgoza, neoza (H.) ; 

 Ronecha, rolecha (Kumaon) ; Rhi, shangti (Kunawar) ; Chiri, 

 prita, mirri, galgoja, galboja, kashti, rhi, neoza, shangti, newr, 

 ruminche, roniunchi (Pb.). 



Habitat :— Dry interior valleys of the N.-W. Himalaya, from 

 Kunawar westwards and in Garwhal. 



A moderate-sized, ever-green tree. Bark very thin, grey, 

 smooth, exfoliating in large, thin scales, leaving rounded shallow 

 depressions, cracked only in very old trees. Wood hard, very 

 resinous ; heartwood yellowish-brown. Resin copious. Branches 

 not whorled. Girth 12ft. sometimes. Height 50ft., sometimes 

 60ft., in congenial soil with proper space to develop its peculiar 

 beauty, it becomes a regular dense, conical tree. Foliage beauti- 

 fully dark-green, says Brandis. Leaves in trees stout, stiff, 3-5in. 

 long ; back rounded, persistent for 3-4 years, serrulate ; sheath 

 deciduous, |in., entire. Bracts deciduous. Male-catkins i-fin. 



