250 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



antiseptic, disinfectant and deodorant properties similar to those of eucalyp- 

 tus. 



The bark of this and of the following species contains berberine 

 (K. L. Day). 



223. Z. acantho podium, D. 0. h.f.b.l, i. 493. 



Vern : — Nipali dhanya ; tumra ; tejphal ; darmar (H) ; 

 Thumbul (Bj ; Bogay timur (Nepal). 



Habitat : — Hot valleys of the Sub-tropical Himalaya, from 

 Kumaon to Sikkim and the Khasia Hills. 



A small tree. Bark -|in. thick, greyish brown, shining, 

 studded with the large conical corky bases of the prickles, 

 which fall off as the tree grows. Wood yellowish white, soft. 

 Pores small, often in short radial lines. Medullany rays fine. 

 (Gamble). 



Branchlets glabrous or tomentose, leaflets 2-6 pairs, lan- 

 ceolate, nerves distinct, glabrous or more or less pubescent 

 beneath, petioles and rachis narrowly winged. Cymes very 

 short, dense, J-lin. long, pubescent. Flowers apetalous. Wood, 

 with a broad septate pith, adds J. D. Hooker. 



Use : — See Z. alatum above. 



224. Z. oxyphyllum, Edgew. h.f.b.l, i. 494. 



Habitat : — Himalaya, from Garhwal to Bhutan, also Khasia 

 Hills. 



A climbing shrub, clothed with hooked prickles. " Bark 

 greyish brown, covered with large corky lenticels, and armed 

 with recurved thorns on a conical corky base, often -Jin. high. 

 Wood yellowish white, soft, porous. Pores large, usually many 

 times subdivided radially. Medullary rays moderately broad, 

 bent where they pass the pores. Annual rings marked by a 

 white line " [Gamble). Leaves very variable in size, 4-12 in., 

 petiole arched, usually very prickly along the back. Leaflets, 

 3-10 pair, alternate or opposite ; in young specimens ovate- 

 lanceolate, very long-acuminate, crenate-serrate, pale ; nerves 

 very distinct beneath, in older ones more elliptic or oblong, 

 2-2§in. to upwards of 4in., coriaceous, shining above. Cymes 

 much-branched, many- flowered. Flowers the largest of the 



