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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
longer pedicels, marked with scar of small caducous bracts. 
Calyx tomentose, campanulate, shortly and broadly 3-lobed. 
Petals thinly tomentose above. Ovary glabrate, equalling the 
stout style. Drupe l-2in. long, ellipsoid or ovoid, tapering, 
with a thick, bony stone. 
Part used : — Gum. 
Uses .-—According to Dr. Bidie, the resin is used as a sub- 
stitute for Burgundy pitch in making plasters. Also employed 
with giugelly oil in rheumatic pains (Watt ii. 96). 
259. C. bengalense, Roxb. h.f.b.i., i. 534. 
Roxb. 504. 
Habitat : — Sylhet and the adjoining districts. 
Vern. : — Gogul-dhup (Nepal) ; Narokpa (Lepcha) ; Tekreng 
(Garo); Bisjang, dhuna (Assam). 
A tall, ever-green, glabrous tree. Bark gin. thick, rather 
smooth, greyish white, with numerous lenticels, peeling off in 
small round tjiick flakes. Wood soft, sapwood yellowish white, 
heartwood reddish brown. Extremities rusty, pubescent, glabrate, 
with subulate stipules. Leaves l-2ft. Leaflets sub-opposite, 
13-21, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, 3-6 byl-2 
in. Panicles racemiform, from upper axils, shorter than or 
equalling the leaves; buds cylindrical. Calyx cupuliform, 
3-fid. Petals obvate oblong, 3, imbricate ; filaments confluent, 
half their length. Disk hirsute, within the stamens. Drupe 
ellipsoidal, smooth, size of a large olive, 1-3 — celled, dark purple, 
pruinose. Stone trigonous, thick, bony. Cotyledons contortopli- 
cate. A clear, amberlike resin exudes from wound in the bark. 
Use :--The leaves and bark are used externally for rheu- 
matic swellings (Watt ii. 94). 
N. 0. MELIACEiE. 
260. Turrcea villosa, Benn. h.f.b.i., i. 542. 
Vern : — Kapur-bhendi (Bom.). 
Habitat : — Western Peninsula ; on the Anamally and 
Mahableshwar hills ; Guzerat at Dolca. 
