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cracked. Wood varying from yellowish brown to reddish 
brown, with a beautiful satiny lustre, seasons and works well. 
Sapwood of lighter colour (Gamble.) Trunk straight, tall, 
young pairs pubescent. Leaves pinnate, rachis 8-10in., cylin- 
drical, softly tomeutose. Leaflets 10-16, usually 12, stalked, 
alternate, 2£-5in., ovate, very unequal at base, acuminate, acute, 
entire, closely velvety, tomeutose on both sides, dark green above, 
paler beneath. Floweis pale green (Trimen , J-lin., pedicellate, 
in large terminal pyramidal panicles. Calyx-lobes shallow, 
rounded, hairy. Petals linear-oblong, spreading. Staminal- 
tube Jin. Style as long as staminal tube. Capsule ljin., 
broadly ovoid, apiculate, smooth, brown, valves woody, separat- 
ing entirely from the 4- winged axis. Seeds closely packed, 
compressed with a broad, obtuse, terminal wing, twice as long as 
themselves. 
Use : — The bark is powerfully astringent (O’Shaugh- 
nessy.) 
274. Gedrela tootia, Roxb. H. F. B. I., I. 568. 
Roxb. 663. 
Eng. : — The Toon or Indian mahogany tree. 
Sans. : — Tunna, kuberaka, nandi-vriksha. 
Vern. : — Tun, tuni, lun, mahanim, mahalimbo, tunka- 
jhar, tuna, lud (H.) ; Tuni, tun, lud, tunna ( B. ); Kujya (Tippera); 
Somso (Bhutia); Katangi (Kol.) ; Mahalirabu (Uriya) ; Drawi, 
chittisirin, tiin, drab, deri, bisrui, darab, khushing, khanam 
(Pb.) ; Tuni, babich, labshi (Nepal); Sitnal (Lepcha) ; Poma, 
henduri poma, trin, jia, tunga (Ass.) ; Deodari, kuruk (Mar.) ; 
Deodari, kuruk, tundu, tun tBom.) ; Tunu-maram, tun-maram, 
mali, wunjhli (Tam.); Nandi-chettu, nandi (Tel.); Arana- 
maram (Mai.) ; Suli, mali (Salem) ; Kal kilingi (Nilghiris) ; 
Tundie, Kempfl-gandagheri, tunda, Sanola-mara, devadari 
(Kan.) 
Habitat : — Tropical Himalaya, from the Indus eastward, 
and throughout the hilly districts of Central and Southern 
India. 
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