N. 0. SIMARUnE.®. 
291 
Use : — The root and leaves are bitter, and are employed 
in the form of a decoction in Malabar, as a tonic, stomachic 
and anti-emetic (0 ’ Shauglmessy). 
252. — Bosivellia serrata, Roxb. h. f. b. i., i. 528, 
Roxb. 365. 
Syyi. : — B. thurifera, Roxb. 
Sans Salasi-niryasa, sallaki, kunduru, gugguli. 
Vern. : — (The gum resin) Salhe, salci or salai, snlgit, sel-gond, 
kundur, salpe, luban (H.); Luban, salai, kundro (,B. ) ; Saiga 
(Santal.); Anduku, anduga, gfiggar, dnmsal (Kumaon) ; Salla, 
bor-salci, ganga (Gond), Silai (C. P.) ; Salar (Ulwar) ; Salai, 
saiga, guggula, salai-dhup, solaphali (Bom.) ; Salapbali (Mar.) ; 
Kundur (Duk.) ; Dhup, mukul salai, gugali (Guz.) ; Saliya, 
gugul (Cutch) ; Kungli, gfigfilu, kundrikam morada, Wmdruk- 
kampishin, parangi-shambi-rani (Tam.) ; Parangi-s&mbrfini, 
anduga-pisunu, anduku, &ndu, Adak (Tel.) ; Vella-kundirukkam 
(Mai.); Chittu Maddi (Kan.) 
Habitat -Forests of the base of the Western Himalaya as 
far west as the Sutlej. Central India from Behar to Rajpntana, 
and Southward into the Dekkan and to the Circars and the 
Conkan within .10-20 miles of the Western Ghats. 
A deciduous, middle-sized tree, with a spreading flat 
crown. Bark nearly £in. thick, greenish, ash-coloured, peeling 
off in thin smooth flakes. Young shoots and leaves pubescent, 
with simple hairs Leaves imparipinnate, crowded at the ends 
of branches ; leaflets 8-15 pair, opposite or nearly opposite, 
sessile, lanceolate, more or less deeply crenate, apex generally 
obtuse. Flowers bisexual. Calyx small, 5-7-cleft, petals 5-7. 
Stamens 10-12, inserted at the base of the red annular fleshy 
disk. Ovary 3-celled, half immersed in the disk ; 2 collateral 
ovules in each cell. Fruit 3-valved, the valves separating from 
the dissepiments which remain attached to the axis. Seeds 3, 
enclosed in heartrshaped stones attached to the inner angle. 
Cotyledons trifid, lobes laciniate, radicle superior. 
