N. 0. ANAOARDI ACE.®. 
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The present investigation has proved with the aid of the method outlined 
above that the most important and main constituent of the Burmese natural 
v rnish is urushic acid, which amounts to about 85 per cent, in the pure 
unadulterated specimens. (Mr. Puran Singh’s paper in the Indian Forest 
Records, Vol. I. part IV.) 
330 . — Odinct wodier, Roxb., h.f.b.i., ii. 29 , 
Roxb. 336 . 
Sans : — Jingini. 
Vern. : — Jingan, kashmala, kaimul, mowen H.); Jival, 
bohar, ghadi(B.); Odiya-maram, wodier, Odi, (Tara.); Odai- 
manu (Tel.) ; Shimti ; Mui [Bomb, and Sind] ; Mooi, indramai 
[Uriya], 
(Porebunder) Mavedo ; (Guj.) Mavedi ; (Marathi) Sbirati, 
Mewa, Moyim ; (Hind.) Jingan, Mayini ; 
Habitat : — Throughout the hotter parts of India. Ceylon. 
Burma, Andaman Isles. 
A moderate-sized or large, deciduous tree. Bark £in. thick, 
compact, grey, smooth, exfoliating in small irregular plates. 
The stem affords gum. Wood moderately hard, close-grained. 
Sapwood large white ; heart-wood scanty, light red when fresh 
cut, turning reddish brown on exposure. Leaves imparipinnate. 
Rachis 6-10in., cylindric, glabrous, swollen at base. Leaflets 
3-4 pair, opposite; 2-6 pair, says Triinen, and a terminal one, 
shortly stalked or nearly sessile, 3-bin., lanceolate, acute or 
rounded, often unequal at base, more or less caudate-acuminate, 
entire or faintly crenate, glabrous, shining and deeply tinged 
with pink when young. Pinkish yellow. Flowers small, nearly 
sessile, pinkish yellow, appearing when the tree is bare of 
leaves. Inflorescence: the flowers are in small clusters, laxly 
arranged on elongated, slightly branched, stellate, pubescent, 
axillary panicles, appearing with the young leaves on the new 
shoots. Calyx minute, hairy. Petals oblong-oval, obtuse, 
reflexed in female flowers. Ovary oblong, large, glabrous. 
Styles very stout, divaricate. Drupe about |in., reniform, 
ovoid, obtuse, compressed, smooth. Stone reniform, very hard. 
Parts used : — The bark, gum and leaves. The bark yields 
a gum. 
