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INDIAN M EDICINAL PLANTS. 
out thick volumes of fragrant smoke, and is much used for fumi- 
gating rooms occupied by the sick (U. C. Dutt). 
The superior kinds of Sal resin are efficient substitues for 
the Pine resins of the European Pharmacopoeias. (Beng. Disp., 
p. 221.) 
Dr. Sakharam Arjun states (‘Bombay Drugs’) that he has 
seen shorea resin, mixed with sugar, given with good effect in 
dysentery. 
According to Mr. Campbell, the leaves are used medici- 
nally by the Santals. 
The resin is used by native doctors for weak digestion, 
gonorrhoea, and as an aphrodisiac (Watt.) 
It is not prescribed internally, but used occasionally for 
fumigation of rooms and houses, to remove bad odours. It does 
not destroy offensive smell, but rather conceals it under its thick 
and odoriferous smoke. There is every reason to think that it 
will prove itself an efficient ingredient iir many ointments and 
plasters, if employed, instead of pine and other resins (Moodeen 
Sheriff.). 
141. S. Tumbuqqaia, Roxb. h.f.b.i., i. 306. 
Roxb. 440. 
Vern .: — Kala-d&mar, (H. ; B. ; and Mar. and the Dec.) ; 
Kalo-damar, (Guz.) ; Karapu-damar ; Tumbugai-pishin (Tam.) ; 
nalha-damar ; Nalla-sojau (Tel.); Kara-kundurukam, Tum- 
bugaipasha (Mai.) 
Habitat : — Western Peninsula, forests of Cudapab, and 
Palaghat in Mysore. 
A “ gigantic dammer-producing ” tree. Bark dry, rough, 
with deep vertical fissures, like those of Shorea robusta. Wood 
smooth, harder than that of Sal, but similar in structure and 
much smoother. Leaves 2J-3 byll-4£in. (Beddome), ovate or 
oblong-cordiform, acuminate ; base truncate or emarginate, 
glabrous on both surfaces, lateral nerves about 8 pair. Petiole 
1-2 in. Panicles terminal, 8 in. long, hoary or nearly glabrous. 
Flowers shortly peaicelled, buds densely hoary. Stamens -about 
