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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
pair ; stipules sheathing, large, broadly ovate, connate. Flowers 
fragrant, peduncled, white, turning yellow ; tube l-2in., lobes 5, 
obovate-oblong. Fruit ovoid, crowned with persistent Calyx- 
limb. Pericarp thick, woody ; eudocarp thick, woody, nearly 
2-celled, with prominent placentas. 
Use : — The tree gives a gum resin from wounds in the bark 
and, from leaf-buds. This is hard, opaque yellow, greenish or 
brown with strong smell, and is used in cutaneous diseases and 
to keep off flies and worms (Gamble). 
603. G. gumnifera, Linn, h.f.b.i., hi . 116 ; 
Roxb. 238. 
Vern . : — Dekamali, kamarri, (Hind.) ; Baruri, barui (Kol.) ; 
Papra, kamarri (C. P.) ; Chitamatta, chitnityal, gaggaru(Tel), ; 
Chitta, kambia (Kan.) ; Dikem&li (Bom.). 
/ Habitat: — Chota Nagpore, Western Peninsula from the Sat- 
pura range southward. Central and South India ; in the Central 
Provinces, Dekkan, Konkan, Chittagong (Gamble). 
A small tree a woody bush,” says J. D. Hooker. Bark 
greyish brown, smooth, £in. thick. Wood yellowish- white, 
close-grained, hard. The buds yield a resinous, bright yellow 
gum, transparent and pleasant to chew, used like the gum-resin 
yielded by G. lucida. Gamble says he has never seen the gum 
procured from the bark. Leaves l^-2|in., coriaceous, cuneate 
or obovate, shining, sessile or sub-sessile ; base acute, obtuse or 
cordate ; sometimes puberulous beneath ; nerves 15-20 pair. 
Stipules connate, truncate or mucronate. Flowers subsessile, 
white. Calyxlimb shortly tubular, teeth stout, subulate ; lobes 
5-6. Corolla-tube l-2in., glabrous or pubescent ; limb l-3in. 
diam., lobes 5, oblong, obtuse. Fruit l-l|in., ellipsoid or 
oblong, with a stout beak, smooth ; pericarp thin, woody, 
endocarp 4-5-valved (Roxburgh), thin, crustaceous, nearly 4-5- 
celled (Brandis) ; placentas 4-5. 
Uses : — The gum obtained from this plant is used internally 
in dyspepsia accompanied by flatulence. In veterinary medi- 
cine, it is employed to keep off flies from sores (Dymock). 
