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branches. Young parts covered with grey stellate hairs. Leaves 

 downy beneath, 4-6 in. by 3 in. diam., rounded, cordate, pal- 

 mately 5-7-nervecl, more or less lobed, midlobe longest, glabrous 

 above or with thinly scattered hairs, closely felted beneath ; 

 petiole 1-2 in. Flowers numerous, white or pink, |-f in. across, 

 polygamous, generally dioecious, in much-branched axillary or 

 terminal panicles. Bracteoles 4-6, oblong, spathulate, downy, 

 nearly as long as the Calyx ; Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, seg- 

 ments ovate, acute, accrescent and spreading in fruit, Petals 

 clawed, adnate to the staminal-tube, longer than the Clayx, 

 obcordate. Stamens monadelphous, the tube shorter than the 

 petals and split halfway into 5 segments, each bearing at the 

 apex 3-5 sessile anthers. Capsule subglobose.. 3-valved. Seeds 

 reniform, furrowed. 



Use : — Among the Santals, the leaves are pounded and 

 made into a paste and applied to the body for pains. They 

 are also chewed, when there is a deficiency of saliva, (Revd. A. 

 Campbell.) 



175. Adansonia digit ata, Linn, h.f.b.i., i. 348. 

 Roxb. 513. 



Vernr — Gorakh amli, amali, (H.) ; kalp briksh (Ajmere); 

 Hathi-khatyan (Dec.) ; gorakh chintz, choyari chinch (Bomb.) ; 

 Marjath Anai-puliyaroy Parutri, (Tarn.) ; Sima-chinta (Tel.) Go- 

 rakh Amli (Porebunder) ; Rukhdo, Chor Amli (Guj.) ; Gorakh 

 Chinch (Marathi) ; Katu-imbul (Sinhalese). 



Arab. : — Hujed. 



Eng. : — The baobab or monkey-bread tree of Africa. 



Habitat : —Cultivated in various parts of India and 

 Ceylon. 



A deciduous large tree, 60-70 ft. high, very handsome, 

 though stumpy when in foliage. Trunk short, thick, of great 

 diam. Stem grey at base, rapidly narrowing upward, like a 

 cone, throwing out very widely spreading branches. Bark soft, 

 glaucous, thick. Leaves digitate, glabrous, pubescent beneath, 

 when young ; leaflets generally 5-7, 3-4 in. long, obovate or 



