226 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



201. Hugonia Mystax, Linn., h.f.b.l, i. 413. 



Vern. : — Agiire (Tarn.) ; gatrinta ; tivoa potike ; vendapa ; 

 Kaki bira (Tel.) ; Modera Canni (Mai.) 



Trimen gives the following names : — 

 Sinhalese : — Maha-getiya, Bugetuya ; 

 Tamil : — Motirakanni. 



Habitat : — Western Peninsula, from the Concan to Travan- 

 cor. Ceylon, low country. 



In the Konkan, near the sea-coast, at Vingorla ; Northern 

 Circars and -the Karnatic ; Ceylon (Trimen, Fl. Ceylon, 1. 189.) 



A climbing shrub, scrambling ; branches spreading, set 

 with numerous short, stiff, yellow-tomentose branchlets. " Bark 

 yellowish-white, corky. Wood greyish-white, hard, close- 

 grained. Pores small, very numerous and evenly distributed. 

 Medullary rays very faintly marked, numerous, regular." 

 (Gamble). Branches leafless below, bearing in the axils of the 

 lowest leaves a pair of woody, reflexed, circinate, tomentose 

 pines (modified peduncles occasionally bearing flowers), above 

 them tufts of leaves and axillary flowers. (Brandis). Leaves 

 alternate, stipules subulate. Flowers yellow, 1 in. across. 

 Sepals 5, unequal, imbricate. Petals 5, contorted. Stamens 10; 

 filaments connate at base. Ovary 5-celled, styles 5, distinct- 

 Drupe red or yellow, -§ in. long, endocarp bony, grooved ; 

 Seeds 2-3 (Brandis). Flowering time, May-October. 



Uses : — The bruised roots are employed externally in 

 reducing inflammatory swellings, and as an antidote to snake- 

 bites. In the form of a powder, it is administered internally 

 as an anthelmintic and febrifuge. The bark of the root is also 

 employed as an antidote to poisons (Watt). 



202. Erythroxylon monogynum, Boxb. h.f.b.i., 

 i. 414. Boxb. 322. 



Syn.: — E. indicum, Bedel Fl. Sylv. p. 81. Sethia Indica 

 B.C. 



Vern ; Nat-ka-devdar (Dec.) ; Devdarum, Chemmanally 



(Tarn.) ; Adivi geranta, pagadapu-katta (Tel.) 



