314 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Vern. : — Priyangu (B, H, Mar. and Sans.) 

 Habitat : — Western Peninsula, from the Concan and 

 Midnapore southwards. 



A large evergreen tree (near the coast in Kanara, a shrub). 



Bark light brown, smooth, peeling of! in flat rectangular scales. 

 Wood bright red, hard, very tough, close-grained, handsomely 

 marked. Annual rings distinguished by a darker belt. Pores 

 small, scanty, in narrow rings of whitish tissue which run 

 concentrically and appear on a cross-section as narrow wavy 

 lines. Medullary rays fine, numerous, evenly distributed ; the 

 distance between them equal to or less than the diameter of the 

 pores. Youngest shoots and inflorescences clothed with round 

 peltate scales. Leaves 3-7in. Leaflets 1^-4|- by f-3in., glabrous 

 opposite, pale beneath ; naked part of common petiole as long 

 as the upper portion ; petiolules iq to |in. Flowers xVn. 

 diam. ; in. diam, says Brandis. Panicles rather supra- 

 axillary, pyramidal ; elongate, pedicels short. Calyx dull yellow, 

 often covered with stellate hairs. Petals yellow. Fruit fin. 

 diam. : buff- coloured, very minutely pilose. Seed ovoid, sur- 

 rounded with a white thick, slighty acid edible pulp, embryo 

 green, radicle minutely pilose. 



Use : — Said by the Sanscrit writers to be cooling, and 

 useful in burning of the body and painful micturition. The 

 fruit is described as sweet, astringent and tonic. (U. K. Dutt.) 



267. Amoova rohituka, W. and A. H. f. b. i., 

 i. 559. 



Syn. : — Andersonia Rohituka, Roxb. 314. 



Sans. : — Rohitaka, 



Vern. :— Harin hara, harin khana (H.) ; Tikta-raj, pitraj 

 (B.); Bandri phal (Nepal); Sohaga (Oudh) ; Sikru (KoL) ; 

 Tanga ruk (Lepcha) ; Lota amari, amora amari (Assam) ; 

 Shem-maram (Tarn, and Mai.) ; Chaw-a-manu, rohitakah (Tel.) 



Habitat:- Assan^ Sylhet, Cachar, Oudh, Western Penin- 

 ula, from Concan to Travancore. 



