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silky needles, m. 123°. (A) and warm HNO s gave (CO, H),, even when HOAc 
was used as diluent. Coned. KMN0 4 also gave (CO, H),. Fusion with 5 parts 
KOFI at about 250° gave a volatile oil with the odor of AmOH. The aq. 
soln. of the fusion was acidified and extd. with Et,0, yielding BzOH, 
isolated as the Ca salt. In another expt. the aq. soln. of the fusion 
was satd. with CO,, shaken out with Et,0 and then with ale., which did not 
mix with the soln. The ale. soln. containing K salts was evapd., acidified with 
H, S0 4 , and distd. with steam. The resulting volatile acids were purified 
through the Ba aud Na salts, and finally sepd. as the Ag salts. HOAc and 
C 4 H 9 -CO, H were found. Boiled with HI for 12 hrs., (A) yields a substance, C„ 
H„ 0„ faintly yellow, silky needles, m. 180-1°, changes into short rhombs 
with identical properties on standing overnight in the mother-liquors when 
crystd. from ale., gives a deep green color in ale. with FeClj ; its methyl 
derivative, prepd. with Me,S0 4 and aq. KOH containing a little ale. to 
facilitate soln. m. 216° ; the monoacetyl derivative, using Ac, O and NaOAc., 
m. 218-9°. -Chemical Abstracts, Aug. 10, 1915; p. 2061. 
128. G. indica, Chois., h.f.b.i., i. 261. 
Syn. : — G. purpurea, Roxb. 443. 
Vern. : — The fruit, Ainsul, Kokam (Bomb.); Brindad 
(Goa) ; the oil, Kokam tel (Bomb.); the bark, Ratamba-sal, 
(Bomb.); Murgal mara (Tam.). 
Habitat Western Peninsula, ghats of Concan and 
Canara. 
A slender tree with drooping branches, branchlets black. 
,l Bark light brown, rather shining, very thin, smooth. Wood 
greyish white, hard ; many dark concentric lines, resembling 
annual rings, without or with very few pores ; very numerous, 
narrow, anastomozing white brands, in which the scanty 
moderate- si zed pores appear. Medullary rays moderately 
broad, white, regular” (Gamble). Leaves red, when young 
2-4 in., thickly membranous, lanceolate, occasionally oblanceolate, 
nearly sessile, mucronate, rarely obtuse. Secondary nerves 
slender, 6-10 pair, a few shorter, very slender ; intermediate nerves 
between. Flowers tetramerous, small. Sepals orbicular, outer 
small petals rather smaller. Male flowers : a central, round or 
4-sided mass with crowded, numerous, 2-celled anthers; in ter- 
minal 3-7-flowered, often pedunculate cymes ; pedicels ^rin. long. 
Anthers numerous, 2-celled on short filaments crowded on a 
