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Rh cracked. Wood varying from yellowish brown to reddish brown, with a beautiful satiny lustre, seasons and works well. Sap wood of lighter colour (Gamble.) Trunk straight, tall, young pairs pubescent. Leaves pinnate, rachis 8-10in., cylindrical, softly tomentose. Leaflets 10-16, usually 12, stalked, alternate, 2½-5in., ovate, very unequal at base, acuminate, acute, entire, closely velvety, tomentose on both sides, dark green above, paler beneath. Flowers pale green (Trimen ) ⅛-1in., pedicellate, in large terminal pyramidal panicles. Calyx-lobes shallow, rounded, hairy. Petals linear-oblong, spreading. Staminal- tube ¼in. Style as long as staminal-tube. Capsule 1½in., broadly ovoid, apiculate, smooth, brown, valves woody, separating entirely from the 4-winged axis. Seeds closely packed, compressed with abroad, obtuse, terminal wing, twice as long as themselves.

Use : — The bark is powerfully astringent (O'Shaughnessy.)

Eng, : — The Toon or Indian mahogany tree.

Sans. : — Tunna, kuberaka, nandi-vriksha.

Vern. : — Tun, tuni, lún, mahánim, mahálimbo, túnkájhár, túna, lúd (H.) ; Tuni, tun, lúd, tunna (B.); Kujya (Tippera); Somso (Bhutia); Katangi (Kol.) ; Mahalimbu (Uriya) ; Drawi, chittisirin, tún, drab, deri, bisrúi, darab, khúshing, khanam (Pb.) ; Túni, babich, labshi (Nepal); Simal (Lepcha); ; Poma, henduri poma, tún, jia, tunga (Ass.) ; Deodari, kúruk (Mar.) ; Deodari, kuruk, túndu, tún (Bom.) ; Túnu-maram, tún-maram, mali, wunjúli (Tam.); Nandi-chettu, nandi (Tel.); Aranamaram (Mal.) ; Suli, máli (Salem) ; Kal kilingi (Nilghiris) ; Tundie, Kempú-gandagheri, tunda, Sanola-mara, devadari (Kan.)

Habitat :— Tropical Himalaya, from the Indus eastward, and throughout the hilly districts of Central and Southern India.