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single or in radial strings of 2-4. Medullary rays short, white, 

 numerous, the distance between them about equal to the 

 diameter of the pores. Annual rings, marked by the darker 

 autumn wood, with few pores" (Gamble). Branches opposite. 

 J. D. Hooker says that the wood has broad septate pith, and the 

 leaves are 5-merous-foliate ; petiole not' winged. " The 

 prickly stem resembles that of the Bombax. Leaves 1-lfft., 

 clustered at the ends of the branches, equally or unequally 

 pinnate; petiole unarmed. Leaflets opposite, 3-oin., with short 

 partial petioles, recurved, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, caudate- 

 acuminate, upper base, rounded, lower narrow and ending in 

 the costa, nerves 10-12 on the upper half, fewer on the lower. 

 Flowers yellow, in large terminal panicles " (Brandis). J. D. 

 Hooker says : " Cymes terminal, very large, glabrous, Some- 

 times lift, broad: branches opposite, angled; bracts minute 

 caducous." Flowers 4-merous, fin. diam. Petals valvate. Ovary 

 globose. Piipe carpels solitary, the size of a pea, tubercled. 

 Seed subglobose, blue-black. The unripe carpels taste like 

 orange peel, the seeds like black pepper. 



Parts used : — The carpels, oil, bark and root-bark. 



Uses : — The fruit is used for its aromatic and stimulant pro- 

 perties. The Mohamedan physicians consider it to be hot 

 and dry, and to have astringent, stimulant and digestive pro- 

 perties. They prescribe it in dyspepsia arising from atrabilis ; 

 also in some forms of diarrhoea. The root-bark is reputed in 

 Goa to be purgative of the kidneys. The fruit with ajwan seeds 

 is powdered, steeped in water and distilled, and the distillate 

 given as a remedy for cholera. In rheumatism, the fruit is 

 given in honey (Dymock.) 



The bark and root-bark are also probably equally valuable. 

 The essential oil is used for cholera (Watt.) 



227. Z. Budrunga, Wall, h.f.b.l, i. 495. 



Syn. : — Fagara Budrunga, Roxb, 140. 

 Vera. :— Budrung (Hin.): Brojonali (Assam). 

 Habitat:— Tropical Himalaya, Kumaon, forests of Sylhet, 

 the Khasia Mountains, Ohittagong, and Martaban. 



