118 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



on 2-parietal placentas. Capsule reddish brown, clothed with 

 soft prickles, 1 J in., ovoid or sub-globose, base intruded ; 

 dehiscence loculicidally 2-valved ; placentas on the valve. Seeds 

 many, covered with a red pulp (originally fleshy papillae on 

 the testa) which yields the well-known dye. Albumen 

 farinaceous ; Embryo large ; cotyledons flat. 



Parts used : —The seeds, seed-pulp and root-bark. 



Uses :— Astringent and slightly purgative, also a good 

 remedy for dysentery and kidney diseases. The pulp (a well- 

 known colouring matter) surrounding the seeds is astringent 

 (Roxburgh.). The seeds are cordial, astringent, and febrifuge 

 {LindlX 



The root-bark is antiperioclic and antipyretic, and the 

 seeds slightly astringent and a very good remedy for gonorrhoea. 

 The seeds also possess the antiperiodic and antipyretic properties, 

 but to a less extent. 



The root-bark is of great use in uncomplicated inter- 

 mittent, remittent, and continued fevers. The seeds are very 

 useful, particularly in the form of decoction. They are also use- 

 ful in the above varieties of fever, but inferior to the root-bark 

 in this respect. 



The root-bark is one of those antiperiodic medicines, 

 which can be used during the absence as well as the presence 

 of pyrexia in the intermittent fever ; and this remark is also 

 applicable to the seeds as an antiperiodic (Moodeen Sheriff). 

 The seed pulp is used by the American Indians to paint their 

 body all over for full dress, and this use of it is said also to pre- 

 vent mosquito bites 



105. Flaeourtia Cataphracta, Roxb. H.F.B.I., 

 i. 193. Roxb. 739. 



Sans. : — Prachin-amalaka. 



Vern. :— Paniyala rB.); Talispatri (H.; Tel; Tam.). Jag- 

 gam, Jan-Gama, Tnmbat (Bom.) Tdmbat (Mar.). 



Habitat :— Nepal eastward, Bengal, Assam, Chitagong. 

 The Konkan. S. India. Burma. Occasionally in Saharanpur. 



