264: INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



236. Atlantia monophylla, Correa. h.f.b.l, i. 511. 



Syn. :— Limonia monophylla, Linn, Boxb. 363. 



Sans. :— Atavi-jambira. 



Vern. : — Makad-limbu (Mar.); Narguni (Uriya ; Adavi-nimma 

 (TeL) Katbe-elumicbcbam-param, Katyalu iTam.); Kan-nimbe, 

 adavi-nimba ^Kan.) ; Mal-naranga (Mai.) ; Jangli-nimbu (Dec); 

 Matangnar (S. Konkan.) 



Habitat : — Sylhet at the foot of the Khasia Mountains; 

 throughout the Western Peninsula, from Konkan and Coro- 

 mandal southwards. Ceylon, not uncommon towards the north 

 of the Island ; in dry regions common. Tamil name in 

 Ceylon :— Perunkuruntu (Trimen). 



A small tree or shrub, with numerous rigid branches, the 

 elder ones armed with short spines, young parts glabrous. 

 Wood very hard and heavy, close-grained, yellow. Leaves 

 lJ-Sin. ; rhomboid-lanceolate, acute at base, obtuse, deeply 

 notched at apex, glabrous, thick- veiny ; petiole short, slightly 

 pubescent, with one or two linear or setaceous, stipular scales at 

 base. Flowers Jin., rather crowded in axillary umbels or 

 corymbs. Pedicels Jin., glabrous, bracts small, ciliate. Calyx 

 glabrous, irregularly split to base. Petals white obovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, recurved. Stamens 8 ; filaments completely connate 

 into a long tube and sometimes adnate to petals at base ; anthers 

 broadly ovoid ; ovary oblong, glabrous, 4-celled, style short, no 

 gynophore. Berry globular-ovoid, iin., with a long apiculus, 

 4-celled, 4-seeded. 



Uses: — " The berries of this yield a warm oil which is, in 

 native medicine, considered as a valuable application in chronic 

 rheumatism and paralysis (Ainslie.) 



In the Concan, the leaf juice is an ingredient in a compound 

 liniment used in hemiplegia (Dymogk.) 



237. Citrus meclica, Linn, h.f.b.l, l 514. 



Habitat : — Valleys along the foot of the Himalaya, from 

 Garhwal to Sikkim ; the Khasia Mountains, Garrow Mountains, 



