Garuga
(native name). ORD. Burseraceae. A genus of about eight or ten species of ornamental stove evergreen trees, natives of tropical Asia and America, with one from Australia. Flowers yellowish. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets almost sessile, crenate. The species here described is the one most generally met with in cultivation. For culture, see Boswellia. G. pinnata (pinnate). l. somewhat villous; leaflets oblong, lanceolate, bluntly crenate. Drupe globose, fleshy, with a rough austere taste. h. 60ft. East Indies, 1808. A deciduous tree, with soft, spongy wood.