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1166 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS.


is incorrectly given in many books as Sanskrit for this plant, — see Calophyllum inophyllum),

Vern.: — Kambilá, kamúd, kamelá, rori rohini, chamar gular, hingur, sendúr, kúnkú, sinduri, kambhal, vasanta-gandha (powd.), (H.) ; Dhola sindur, kamila, túng, késar ( = saffron), kamalá guri (the dye powder), (B.) ; Kumala, súndragundi, bosontogundi, (Ur.) ; Rora, (Sant.) ; Gangai, puddum, jaggarú, hibang, lasson, (Ass.); Chinderpang, machugan, (Garo) ; Sinduria, safed mallata, (Nep.) ; Puroa, tukla, numboongkor, (Lep.); Baraiburi, sindurpong, (Michi) ; Koku, (Gond) ; Kaimbil, (Kash ) ; kamela, kambila, kámal, reini, rúlya, (Pb ) ; Kámbaila (Push.) ; kamala, kunkuma, kapil, shendri, shindur ; (Mar.); kapilo, (Guz.) ; kapila, kamela-mavu (? pod = pollen), thavittai, kuran gumanjanathi kapila rung, kapilapodi, thiruchúrna maram, (Tam.) ; kúnkuma, kapila, vasantagandhamu (powder), chendrasinduri, sundragundi, (Tel.); rangamále, corunga-manje, sarnakesari, hulichellu, kunkuma, kesalay, kamela, (Kan.); Ponnagam (? Calophyllum inophyllum), (Mal.); tawthidin, pothidin, thidinhmok (the dye) (Burm.) ; Tawthadin, (Shan) ; Hamparandella, (Sing.).

Dr. 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 Himálaya from Káshmir 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 large shrub or small evergreen tree, 25-30ft., with usually " buttressed " trunk, says Gamble. Bark ¼in. 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 full growth 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,

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