N. 0. TILIACE.E. 213 



Vern. : — Pharsa dhamani (H. and B.) ; Dhaman Karkani 

 (Bomb j ; Olat (Santa!) ; Kbesla, kasul (Gond) ; Tbada, tharra 

 (Tarn.) ; Cbaraehi, tharrab, Udupai, tada (Tel.) ; Tbadsal, dadsal, 

 batala, biitale (Kan.) 



Habitat : — Hot dry forests throughout Western India, as- 

 cending 4,000 feet in tbe Himalaya. Western Peninsula, Burma, 

 Ceylon low country. 



A large deciduous tree, with cinereous exfoliating bark. 

 Leaves ovate, sometimes rliomboidal or 3-lobed, obliquely cor- 

 date, acute or obtuse, acuminate at apex, bluntly crenate-serrate, 

 sparsely stellate-pubescent or glabrous above, stellate-tomentose, 

 often white beneath, stellate-pubescent on the nerves ; basal 

 nerves 5 ; blade 2-5|-in. by l-4in., petiole J-lin. long; stipules 

 Jin. long, leafy falcate, veined and auricled, deciduous. 

 Flowers small, in axillary umbels ; peduncles |-lin. long, 

 axillary, 3-8 fascicled, 3-flowered ; pedicels shorter than the 

 peduncles ; buds ovoid, grey-tomentose, 5-ribbed ; bracteoles 

 linear-lanceolate. Sepals linear-ovate, |in. long, glabrous, 

 white tomentose outside and yellowish within. Petals ovate, 

 emarginate, yellow, turning purple, much shorter than the 

 sepals ; basal gland green and densely white-villous on the 

 margins and often more than |- the length of the petal. 

 Torus short-ribbed, glabrous, obscurely-toothed and hairy 

 at top. Stamens, with purple filaments and yellow anthers. 

 Ovary globose, villous ; style longer than the stamens ; 

 stigma peltate, irregularly 5-lobed. Drupe 2-4 lobed, but not 

 deeply, of the size of a pea, black ; lobes several-seeded. 



The fruit is said to be eaten (Trimen). 



Parts used : — The bark and wood. 



Uses : — in the Konkan the bark, after removal of the tuber, 

 is rubbed down with water, and the thick mucilage strained 

 from it and given in 5-tola doses, with 2 tolas of the flour of 

 Panicum miliaceum (warri) as a remedy for dysentery 

 (Dymock). 



The bark is also employed externally to remove the irrita- 

 tion from cow-itch. 



