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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
at 138-140'’ separate from the solution of the resin in glacial acetic acid 
after remaining for 24 hours. (Frank Rahak. Chon. Oentr. 1905)- J. Cb. 
S. LXXXV1I1., Pt. II., p. 911. 
1220. P. Khasya, Hoyle , h.f.b.i., v. 652. 
Vern. : — Diugsa (Khasia). 
Habitat : — Khasia and Chittagong. 
A large, ever-green tree, 100-150ft. in Khasya, in Burma 
even 200ft., with a trunk 10ft. in girth. Bark thick, with deep 
cracks. Wood very resimous, moderately hard, pale-brown to 
red. Resin-ducts numerous in the outer and middle belt of 
each annual ring. Leaves 6-10in. long, slender, green, serrulate ; 
back convex ; sheath persistent, grey, lacerated at apex, f-|in. 
Cones solitary or in pair, sometimes in threes, ovoid, 2-3in. 
long, greatest diarn. 2in. Peduncle bracteate. Young cones 
recurved ; beak of scales depressed, pyramidal, with a blunt 
knob at the end, wings round, topped, 4-tunes the length of the 
seed. Seeds fin., together with the wing. 
Use : — This species also yields < il of Turpentine, which 
according to the report of Professor Armstrong, F. R. S., corres- 
ponds in properties with French Oil of Turpentine. 
1221. P. Gerardiana, Wall., h.f.b.i., v. 652. 
Venn. : — Gonober, rhi, newr, seeds =chilgoza, neoza (11.); 
liouecha, rolecha (Kumaon) ; Rhi, shangti (Kunawar) ; Chiri, 
prita, mirri, galgoja, galboja, kashti, rhi, neoza, shangti, newr, 
ruminche, roniunchi (Pb.). 
Habitat : — Dry interior valleys of the N.-W. Himalaya, from 
Kunawar westwards and in Garwhal. 
A moderate-sized, ever-green tree. Bark very thin, grey, 
smooth, exfoliating iD large, thin scales, leaving rounded shallow 
depressions, cracked only in very old trees. Wood hard, very 
resinous ; heartwood yellowish-brown. Resin copious. Branches 
not whorled. Girth 12ft. sometimes. Height 50ft., sometimes 
60ft., in congenial soil with proper space to develop its peculiar 
beauty, it becomes a regular 'dense, conical tree. Foliage beauti- 
fully dark-green, says Brandis. Leaves in trees stout, eti Hr, 3-5iu. 
long ; back rounded, persistent for 3-4 years, serrulate ; sheath 
deciduous, Ain., entire. Bracts deciduous. Male-catkins |-£in. 
