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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
is incorrectly given in many books as Sanskrit for this plant, — 
see Calophylluin inopliyllum), 
Vern .: — Kambild, kamiid, kamela, rori rohini, chamar gular, 
hingur, sender, kunku, sinduri, kambhal, vasanta-gandha 
(powd.), '.H.t; Dhola sindur, kamila, tiing, kesar ( = saffron), 
katnala guri (the dye powder), (B.) ; Kutnala, sundragundi, 
bosontogundi, (Ur.); Rora, (Sant.) ; Gangai, puddum, jaggaru, 
hibang, lasson, (Ass.); Chinderpang, machugan, (Garo) ; 
Sinduria, safed mallata, (Nep.) ; Puroa, tnkla, numboongkor, 
(Lep.); Baraiburi, sindurpong, ( Michi) ; Koku, (Gond) ; Kaimbil, 
(Kash ) ; kamela, kambila, kamal, reini, rulva, (Pb ) ; Kambaila 
(Push.); kamala, kunkuma, kapil, shendri, shindur ; (Mar.); 
kapilo, (Guz.) ; kapila, kamela-mavu (? pod = pollen), thavittai, 
knran gumanjanatbi kapila rung, kapilapodi, thiruchurna 
maram, (Tam.) ; kunkuma, kapila, vasantagandhamu (powder), 
chendrasir.duri, sundragundi, (Tel.); rangamale, corunga-manje, 
sarnakesari, hulichellu, kunkuma, kesalay, kamela, (Kan.); 
Ponnagam (? Calophylluin inopliyllum), (Mai.); tawthidin, 
pothidin, thidinhmok (the dye) (Burm.) ; Tawthadiu, (Shan); 
Hamparandella, (Sing.). / 
l)r. Buchanan-Hamilton called the tree corunga munji maram 
or “ Monkey face tree,” because these animals paint their faces 
red by rubbing them with the fruit. 
Habitat : — A small, evergreen tree, found throughout tropical 
India ; along the foot of the Himalaya from Kashmir eastwards 
(ascending to 5,000 feet); all over Bengal and Burma, Singapore, 
and the Andaman Islands ; and from Sind southwards to Ceylon. 
Distributed to China, the Malay Islands, and Australia. 
A la r ge shrub or small evergreen tree, 25-30ft., with usually 
“buttressed ” trunk, says Gamble. Bark £in. thick, grey, inner 
substance red, marked with irregular cracks. Wood smooth ; 
grey to light red, hard, close-grained, no heartwood. 
Young shoots, inflorescence, and sometimes fullgrown leaves 
beneath clothed with flocculent cottony wool. Branches rather 
slender. Leaves 3-9in. long, alternate, ovate, ovate-oblong or 
lanceolate, acuminate entire or sinuate-toothed, glabrous above, 
beneath subglaucous, puberulous covered with scarlet glands, 
