N. 0. GUTTIFERE.*. 
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Tilnor (Assam) ; Manho-la (Garo) ; Dampel, onth, osth. (Bomb) ; 
Jh&rambi (Mar.) ; Jwara, memadi tamalumu, chitakamaraku, 
(Tel.) 
Habitat : — Eastern Bengal and the Eastern Himalaya, 
from Sikkim to the Khasia Mountains, Eastern Peninsula, 
Western Peninsula, the Circars, and from the Bombay ghats 
southward. There is a tree in the Victoria Gardens, Bombay. 
A medium-sized evergreen tree. Bark brown, Jin. thick, 
exfoliating in small round scales. Wood dark-greyish-brown, 
very hard, and close-grained ; concentric bands thin, white, 
numerous. Pores very scanty, moderate sized, scattered and 
unevenly distributed. Medully rays fine, white, numerous, but 
irregular. Yellow gum copious (Gamble). Foliage dense, dark 
green, shining. Branchlets quadrangular, dilated below the nodes. 
Leaves thickly coriaceous, oblong or elliptic-oblong, acute ; blade 
S-14in.long, petiole -f-lin.long, thick-channelled on the upperside, 
secondary nerves numerous, parellel with shorter intermediate 
nerves. Flowers white, fasciculate on thick uneven, axillary 
protuberances. Pedicels lin., petals |in. orbicular spreading, 
thin. Male flowers : Stamens in 5 broad bundles of 3-5, on a 
fleshy lobed disk. Bisexual : Ovary 5-celled, stigma 5-lobed. 
Fruit dark yellow, 2-3in. diam, of the size of an apple, 5-celled ; 
subglobose, pointed. Seeds 1-4, oblong. 
Use -The fruit, which is yellow and of the size of a small 
apple and very acid, sweetish when ripe, edible, is used for the 
same purposes as that of G. indica ; it is dried and made into a 
kind of Amsul. In bilious conditions, a sherbet made with 
about 1 oz. of the Amsul, with a little rock-salt, pepper, ginger, 
cumin and sugar, is administered (Dymook.) 
131. Ockrocarpus longifolius, Benth. and 
Hook., h.f.b.i., i. 270. 
Syn . Calysaccion longifolium, Wight. 
Ndgakesaram-pushpam (Sans.) 
Vem. N4g-kesar-k6-phul (the flowers), (Hind.) ; NSgesarer- 
phfil (the flowers), (Beng.) ; Surangi, timbra nigkesar (Bomb.) ; 
