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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
inserted. Ovary 4-5-celled, 2 collateral ovules in each cell. Fruit 
a fleshy globose drupe, pale yellow when ripe; enclosing 2, 
rarely more, bony, 1-seeded tuberculated stones. Fresh foliage — 
April or May— with the flowers or after them. Leafless during 
the, greater part of the dry season. 
Parts used : — The fruit, and juice of the leaves and stem. 
Uses : — “ In Salsette, near Bombay, the juice of the stem is 
dropped into the eye to cure opacities of the conjunctiva ; the 
fruit is pickled and eaten as a cooling and stomachic remedy. 
In the Concan, the juice of the leaves, with that of the leaves 
of Adhatoda Vasiea and Vitex trifolia, mixed with honey, is 
given in asthma” (Dymock.). The epicarp of the fruit is also 
cooked in Bombay with the flower heads of the aroid Shevala 
plant to reduce the acrid taste of the latter, and eaten as vege- 
table. 
254. — Balsamodendron mukul, Hook. h. fr. b. I., 
i. 529. 
Sans. : — Konshikaha, guggulu. 
Fern. : — Gugal, mukul, ranghan turb (B., H., Dec., Guz.) ; 
Maishlkshi, gukkal, gukkulu (Tam.) ; Mahi-saksh gugal (Tel.) 
J. Indraji :--Gugar, gugal. (Porebunder and Guj.) Mukul, 
Gugal (Marathi) ; Gugal (Hindi). 
Arab. : — Mokl-arzak, aflatan. 
Pers. : — Boe-jahudan. 
Habitat Sindh , Rajputana, Bednore, Khandeish, Berars, 
Mysore, and Bellary. 
A stunted shrub or dwarfed tree. “ Bark greenish yellow, 
peeling in long thin, shining paper-like scrolls. Wood soft, 
white. Pores small. Medullary rays fine, short. The bark 
yields a gum called Gugal ” (Gamble). 
Branches thick, spreading, branchlets often spinescent. 
Trunk knotty. The outer bark coming off in rough flakes, 
leaving exposed an inner layer which is bright, shining and 
peels off, as noted above from Gamble’s remarks, like thin 
