N. 0. CAPPARIDE^. 109 



ofSivdh, p. 154) The fruit is pickled by Banyas of Bombay, 

 i.e., natives of Surat. 



Dr. Dymock says that the plant possesses somewhat simi- 

 lar properties to 0. spinosa, 



96. 0. sepiaria, Linn., H.F.B.I., I. 177. Roxb, 

 425, 



Sanskrit— Klkadani, Gridhranakhi. 



Vern. :— Uiun, garua bins (Pb j ; Kanta-gur-Kamai, Kalia 

 Kara (B.) ; Kanti Kapali lUriya) ; Kanthar (Guz.) ; Nella-uppi 

 (Tell.); Kantharrel (Marathi). 



Habitat: — Dry places throughout India, from the Punjab 

 and Sindh to Burma and Carnatic. 



A straggling large, wiry-branched shrub or small tree. 

 Branchlets pubescent, hoary or tomentose. Dark-brown, \ in. 

 thick, often studded with thorns in pairs. Wood white, hard, 

 sometimes with occasional rings of dark liber-like tissue. Pores 

 moderate-sized, scanty, in white rings. Medullary rings short, 

 fine to moderately broad. Faint white concentric bands across 

 the rays (Gamble). Thorns recurved, being modified stipules. 

 Leaves ovate-oblong, obovate or oblong lanceolate, subacute or 

 retuse, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, penni-nerved, downy 

 (rarely glabrous) beneath ; |-L J by J-f in. ; petiole T \ in. Flowers 

 white |-£ in. diam., in many flowered sessile or shortly pedun- 

 cled umbels ; pedicels slender or filiform, J-f in. ; sepals oblong 

 or ovate ; petals narrow, oblong. Ovary ovoid, pointed ; gyno- 

 phore J-J in. Fruit pisiform, black when ripe. Flowering 

 time — February -May ; "'Rainy season ' ? — says Kanjilal, in Upper 

 India. 



Uses : — Said by the Sanskrit writers to be useful in 

 fevers caused by deranged bile and wind. Also considered 

 alterative and tonic and useful in skin diseases U. 0. Dutt.) 



The plant possesses febrifugal properties. 



97. C. horrida, Linn. /, h.b.f.l, i. 178. 



Syri. : — C. zeylanica, Eoxb. 425, 

 Sans. ;— Hunkaru, 



