N. 0. BURIAOE.®. 
653 
Used by natives as an astringent for cleansing’ foul ulcers, 
and for allaying irritation of the gums and checking diarrhoea 
during teething of children (Murray, 195). 
Those who have written upon Indian drugs, say little about 
this resin, although it is an article of commerce, and can 
always be obtained in quantity. Recently it has attracted 
attention in Europe, and has been examined by Stenhouse, 
Groves and Fluckiger (Dymock). 
The drug is considered antispasmodic and carminative, and, 
when applied externally, antiseptic and stimulating. Said 
to be a successful anthelmintic in cases of round worm (Watt). 
The powdered gum-resin is said to have diaphoretic and 
expectorant properties, used internally in guinea-worm, dose 
from 2 to 16 grains (Surgeon Joseph Parker, in Watt’s 
Dictionary). 
604. G. turgida, Roxb. h.f.b.i., hi. 118 ; R'oxb. 
439. 
Vern. : — Thanella, khfirftr khuriari, ghurga, mhaner (H.) ; 
Bamemia, dhobel kirat (Uriya) ; Karhar, duduri (Kol.) ; Phur- 
pata (Kurku) ; Dandu kit, dondonki (Santal) ; Panjra, pendra 
(Gond.) ; Karumba (Raj.); Karhar; Khemra (C. P.); Khur 
phendra, pendri, phanda, phetra (Mar.) ; Phetrak (Bhil.) ; 
Manjunda, telel (Tel.) ; Bongeri (Kan.). 
Habitat : — Tropical Himalaya ascending to 4,000 ft., from 
Kumaon to Bhotan, Oudh, Behar, Chota Nagpore, Bombay, 
Central and Southern India, also in Burma. 
A small-deciduous tree, 25ft. Bark smooth, bluish — grey, |in. 
thick, compact. Wood close-grained, white, with a purplish tinge, 
no heartwood (Gamble). Branches rigid, robust, armed with 
strong, axillary, often leaf-bearing, spines. Leaves often crowded 
at ends of branchlets, l-4in. long, obovate, narrowed into short 
marginate petiole, tomentose or pubescent above, when mature. 
Flowers white, fragrant. Corolla-tube i-iin. long. Fertile flowers 
solitary, sessile. Calyx-lobes oblong, sterile clustex-ed in short 
pedicels. Calyx-teeth minute, sometimes unequal. Fruit grey, 
