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Uses : — The fruit is supposed to possess astringent, cooling 

 and stomachic properties ; from it a spirit is distilled and a 

 pleasant sherbet. The leaves are used as an application to 

 pustular eruptions, and the buds are also prescribed by native 

 practitioners. An infusion of the bark is used as a demulcent. 

 (Dr. Stewart). 



The Santals use the root-bark for rheumatism (Revd. A. 

 Campbell). 



190. G. seabrophylla, Lamk. h.f.b.l, i. 387., 

 Roxb. 430. 



Vern. : — Pandhari dhaman, khatkhati (Mar.); Darsuk 

 (Kan.). 



Habitat: — Tropical Himalaya, Garwhal, Sikkim, Mysore, 

 from Gujrat straight to Behar, Sub-Himalaya tract and outer 

 valley, from the Jumna eastward, Oudh forests, Northern 

 Circars, Assam, Pegu, Upper Burma (Ava), Chittagong ; com- 

 mon in Dun and Saharanpur forests (Kanjilal). 



A shrub ; branchlets, underside of leaves and inflorescence 

 clothed with soft, tawny tomentum. Leaves 3-6 by 4 in., often 

 slightly lobed, base 3-5-nerved, secondary nerves not arched, 

 scabrous above, pubescent beneath, roundish ovate, irregularly 

 serrate. Brandis says the leaves are 4-9 in. long, ovate or 

 obovate, tertiary nerves distinct beneath. Petiole Jin. ; 

 peduncles short, l-4in., axillary ; stipule subulate, Flowers 

 large, 2-3 on each peduncle, f in. Blade of petals white, ovate, 

 larger than often twice the length of the claw. 



Cymes umbellate, says Maxovell T. Masters (Hook.) ; 

 pedicels diverging, longer than the peduncles. Bracteoles 

 linear-subulate, deciduous. Flower-buds obovate-oblong, ribbed. 

 Sepals linear-lanceolate, pubescent ; Petals notched, half the 

 length of the sepals, or less. Gynophore glabrous, edge 

 villous, 5, small tufts of hair at base, between petals. Fruit a 

 globose drupe, not lobed, J-f in. diam., rind brown, crustaceous, 

 hairy ; stones 4, 1-2-seecled, in sweet, yellowish viscid pulp. 



Parts used : — The leaves and root. 



