N. 0. MYRTACE/E. 
559 
Boktok (Lepcha) ; Dambel (Garo.); Pailseputa tammi (Tam.); 
Kumbir (Santal); Asunda (Kol.); Budadurmi, buda darini ; 
dudippi (Tel.) ; Kaval (Kan.) ; Govuldu (Mysore). 
Habitat . — Throughout India, from the Himalaya to Travan- 
core and Tenasserim. 
A large, deciduous tree, turning red in the cold season. 
Bark Jin. thick, dark-grey, with vertical and diagonal cracks, 
exfoliating in narrow (lakes ; linear substance reddish, fibrous. 
Wood moderately hard ; sapwood whitish large ; heartwood dull 
red, sometimes claret-coloured, very dark in old trees ; even- 
grained (Gamble). Leaves membranous, obovate, narrowed 
into a short marginate petiole, crenate ; secondary nerves promi- 
nent, 10-12 pair. Flowers 2-4in. across, sessile, with an un- 
pleasant smell, each supported by 3 unequal bracts ; a few 
flowers clustered at the end of branclilets; petals white or 
greenish white, l-2in. long, filaments purple ; ovules in 2 rows 
in each cell. Fruit green, globose, fleshy, 2-3in. diam., crowned 
by the persistent calyx-segments and the remains of the long 
slender style. 
Farts used . — The bark, flowers, juice and fruit. 
Uses . — The bark is used as an astringent medicine by the 
natives. “ The bark is applied to the wound in snake-bite and 
an infusion of the same is given internally” (Rev. A. Camp- 
bell, M&nbhum). 
The flowers are given in Sindh as a tonic after child-birth 
(Murray.) In Bombay the natives usedhe flowers as well as the 
juice of fresh bark with honey as a demulcent in coughs and 
colds (Dymock). 
The fruit is also astrin gent and used as a decoction to pro- 
mote digestion (S. Arjun, 55). It is also pickled by Banyas 
of Gujrat. 
“ A miner who was at work in some gold fields in Australia, 
poisoned his hand, and a bad ulcer formed on the knuckle of 
one of his fingers. Ordinary treatment having proved useless, 
Dr. Armitt, F. L. S., tried, at the recommendation of a native, 
some leaves of the Careyamade into a pulp and used as a poul- 
tice four times a day. In five days the ulcer had disappeared. 
