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Habitat : — Western Himalaya, from Kumaon to Nepal. Central India on the Pachmarhi Hills.

Vern. : — Tung, rai túng, tumra (Ph. and H.) ; Tungá, tungla, dúinglá, tumra, rannel (N. W. P.); Samák (Kashmir).

A large shrub or small tree, unarmed, often gregarious. "Bark thin, rough, reddish-brown. Wood dark, reddish- brown, streaked, very hard, close-grained ; sapwood light brown. Annual rings marked by a line and rather more numerous pores. Pores small, scattered, sometimes in short radial strings. Medullary rays fine, numerous, the distance between them about equal to diameter" (Gamble). Branchlets, petioles, underside of leaves and inflorescence clothed with dense tomentum. Leaves trifoliate. Leaflets obovate, the lower portion entire, the upper irregular, crenale. Terminal leaflets 2-3in. long, narrowed into a short marginate petiole, the lateral sessile, smaller. Panicle large terminal, the lower branches from the axils of leaves, bracts linear, minute, pedicels shorter than the flower. Sepals ovate, two narrower than the others ; petals oblong, more than twice the length of the sepals. Disk five-lobed. Drupe glabrous, brown, shining, 1/6in. diam. (Brandis).

Part used : — The fruit.

Use : — Used in Hindu medicine, and, mixed with salt, is said to act like tamarind (Stewart.)

Syn. : — R. bucki amela, Roxb. 273.

Habitat :— Temperate Himalaya, from Banahal to Sikkim, and the Khasi Mountains.

Vern. : — Tatri, arkhar, arkol (Pb.); Dakhmila, dáswila (N. W. P.); Bakkiawela (Nepal) ; Takhril (Lepcha).

A middle-sized, deciduous tree. Young parts covered with dark grey pubescence. Resinous canal in the bark filled with white milk which is sticky, but does not turn black.