228 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



N. 0. MALPIGHIACEJE. 



203. Hiptage Madablota, Gaertn. h.f.b.i., 

 i. 418. 



Syn. : — Gsertnera racemosa, Roxb. 360. 

 Sans: — Madhavi, Atimukta. 



Vern. : — Kampti, madmalti ; liuth.ee mookta (H.) ; Endra, 

 chopar, benkar (Pb.); Madhablata (B.); Haladwail, Madhumalati, 

 Madhavlata, Madhavi. (Mar.) ; Aita-lugala (N. W. P.) ; Shem- 

 pati (Nepal) ; Baromali (Uriya) ; Madhavi tige, vadla yarala, 

 potuvadla (Tel.) 



Trirnen : — (Singhalese) Puwak-gedi. 



J. Indraji : — (Porebunder and Gujrat)Rakatpiti, Ragatpiti, 

 Madhavi, 



Habitat : — Throughout the hotter parts of India. Ceylon, 

 low country, moist and dry regions. 



A large straggling shrub, trunk stout and erect, often of 

 considerable size. Branchlets, young leaves and inflorescence 

 hoary or adpressed-tomentose. Bark brown, thin, exfoliating in 

 small thin flakes. Wood reddish-brown, very rough, soft and 

 moderately hard, with darker patches in the centre (Gamble). 

 Branches stout. Leaves 3-6in., oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate or cordate-acuminate : coriaceous, petioled, shining 

 above. Racemes with densely adpressed pubescence, l-6in., 

 axillary, usually forming a leafy panicle. Flower i-lin. diam., 

 very fragrant, white. Sepals obtuse. Petals twice as long, 

 fimbriate, the 5th petal dashed with yellow at base. Carpels 

 with a central wing between the 2 lateral. Wings of carpels 

 coriaceous, middle one, one or two inches long, linear-oblong or 

 oblanceolate, the two outer or lateral narrower or shorter, 

 spreading half as long. Seeds snbglobose. Cotyledons thick, 

 unequal. 



Parts used : — The leaves and bark. 



Uses : — The leaves are esteemed useful in cutaneous dis- 

 eases (Watt). 



The bark is a good sub-aromatic bitter (Graham). 



