ODINA WODIER. Roxb.
Dhantika,Sulambra,BEAS. Jiyal, Jeevula, . SANBE. Hnan bai, Na-bhay, Mau'. Hik-gass, Hig-gass, SINGH. Shimtee Poonil, C. Pichka, . . . SDTLE.T. Kambal, Batrin, . CHEN. Lidra, Dila, . . . Kurdu, . . . . Ani carra, Ooday, TAM. Mandl, HIND., JHELUM. Goompana, . . . TEL. Mageer, . . . MAHE. Gampina, . . . . This very large tree grows in the warmer parts of the island of Ceylon, up to an elevation of 1500 feet. It is a native of mountainous dis tricts in the Peninsula of India ; grows in Coim batore, in Bengal, Murree, and Hazara, in the coast jungles of the Bombay Presidency. In the Madras Presidency it is grown from cuttings and is planted 'in avenues, but it yields no shade in the hot weather, being without leaves till June. The tree' is rather common on the hills of British Burma, and a valuable timber, much used at Shoay-gween in the manufacture of oil-presses and rice-pounders ; the inner heart-wood is red, and is used for sheaths of swords, spear handles, oil presses, door frames, and rice-pounders. A cubic foot weighs 65 lbs. The wood is very difficult to season, requiring to be kept, even in planks, two or three years ; but once well seasoned, it is a close-grained, beautiful wood, well adapted for cabinet-making purposes, the central reddish portions in particular. A considerable quantity
of gum exudes from the trunk, called Ka.uia or Kuni gond, also gum-jingna, and it resembles the true gum-arabic both in appearance and properties, and is often largely mixed up with the East India gum-arabic of commerce, which contains gums collected indiscriminately from several species of Acacia, and from Odina wodier and Feronia elephantum. The gum is used in cloth-printing, also by weavers for stiffening their thread, and is given in asthma, and as a cordial to women. The tree is lopped for fodder. It ascends the slopes of the mountains in the Babar forests of Kamaon, and attains considerable size. In the Siwalik region of the Panjab, up to near the Indus, and near the Salt Range, to a height of 3500 to 4000 feet, the outer wood is liable to be attacked with worms.Cal. Cat. Ex., 1862; Roxb.; Voigt ; Mason ; Brandis ; Stewart.