STERCULIA URENS. Rosb.
I Bull? . . . . . BENG. Vale butalle, . . TAN.
Kur katila, Katira, Ilisn. \relay putalli, . . „ Kundol, Kavali, Menu. Thabsi, Kavali,. . „ This large tree is a native of Ceylon and of most parts of India. Its peculiar bark looks as if painted of a light colour. Wood soft, spongy, and loose-grained, only fit for the most common purposes. lt,s leaves and tender branches are used in certain cattle diseases. The leaves when soaked in water render it ropy and glutinous. The bark yields the Katila gond gum, resembling tragacauth. The carpel is covered with rigid bristly hairs, which puncture like the Mumma pruriens. The seeds of the stinging pods are roasted and used by the natives as an article of diet, and also as a dainty. Bark, exceedingly astringent, tinges the spittle reddish. Its gum has been sent to I.ondon, but artists did not find it answer. It exudes spontaneously during the hot season, in large, light-brown or white, trans parent tough masses. Immersed in water, these swell like a jelly, but do not dissolve unless by protracted boiling. Its uses are very limited. The solution is not adhesive. The want of adhesive ness renders, it unsuitable for the arts, while its difficult solubility renders it inferior to most other gums for medicinal purposes. A similar gum,
called Kutira, is afforded by the Cochlosperum gossypium. ' STE liCULIA VILLOS.A. Roxb.
Gul-kandar, Kuri,_ CHEN. . . MAHR.
Gul-bodla, . . HAZARA. Osha, God-gudala, SUTLE.J. Oodhal, Oodial, . Hum. Magsu, . SUTLEJ, RAVI.
A large tree of the Dekhan and in the moun tainous countries to the eastward of Bengal, common in many places in the outer hills of the N.W. Himalaya to 3600 feet or inore up to the Indus, and occurs in the Salt Range. It has a straight trunk, with a smooth bark, leaves palmated, five or seven lobed. The bark can be stripped off from the bottom to the top of the tree with the greatest facility, and fine pliable ropes may be made from the inner layers, whilst the outer yield coarser ropes. The rope is very strong and very lasting, wet doing it little injury. In Southern India elephant ropes, and in Bombay bagging, are made of it. In Dehra Doon good paper has been made from it.