N. 0. SIMARUBEiE. 
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enclosed in ovate-rotundate tomentose bracts. Flowers variable 
in size, normally 3 -merous ; female flowers ■§■ to over Jin. in 
length. Calyx campaimlate. Stamens in maleflowers, insert- 
ed around the hairy rudiment of ovary. Ovary glabrous, in- 
crassate above. Drupe ellipsoidal, subtrigonous with a bony 
1-3 — celled stone. Cotyledons tripartite, contorted (Blume). 
Use : — The gum, according to Ainslie, has the same pro- 
perties as balsam of copaiba. It is applied in the form of an 
ointment to indolent ulcers. The oil expressed from the 
kernels might be substituted for almond oil. 
258 . C. strictum, Roxb. h.f.b.i., i . 534 ; 
Roxb. 504 . 
Eng. : — The black Damar tree. 
Vern. : — Kala dammar (H. B. and Guz.) ; Dhup, gQgul 
.(Bom.) ; Dhup, raldhup (Mar.) : Karapu kongiliam, karapu dam- 
mar, congiliummarum, karuppu damar (Tam.) ; Nallardjan 
(Tel.) ; Manda-dhup, raldhupada (Kan.) ; Thelli (Mala.). 
Habitat : — Western Peninsula, Concan, Bababuden Hills, 
&c. 
A very large, straight, diciduous tree.' Bark grey, roughish. 
Wood moderately hard, heart-wood pink, sapwood greyish 
white. This handsome tree, says Gamble, is ono of the most 
conspicuous trees of the Western Ghat, especially when coming 
into new leaf, for the young leaves are of a bright crimson 
colour, very hairy and like red velvet. Branchlets, petiole, 
midrib and nerves beneath, densely clothed with soft reddish 
brown tomentum. Leaves imparipinnate, l-l|ft.. long more 
or less on flowering branches, varying to 4ft. Leaflets coria- 
ceous, 12, 3-4 pair, serrate or crenulate while young, 3-6in. 
long, by 1£-2J (5), in broad secondary nerves, prominent beneath 
Petiole T 0 -|in. Panicles shorter than leaves, upper lateral 
branches short or male flowers in sessile fascicles. Male flower 
iin. long, in a narrow, racemiform panicle, 6-9in. long. Calyx 
tubular, with three shallow broad teeth. Petals coriaceous, 
oblong, rudimentary, ovary depressed, lobed, hispid. Female 
flowers in short few-fid racemes, less crowded on stout 
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