316 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



268. A. Cucullata Roxb., be. f. b. i;, i. 560. 



Vern. :— Amur ; Latmi ; Natmi (B.). 



Habitat : — Lower Bengal, in the Sunder bunds, and in 

 Nipal. 



A glabrous middle-sized, at times a large, evergreen tree, of 

 slow growth, with smooth branches. Bark thin, grey. Wood 

 hard, close-grained, but apt to split; heartwood red. Leaves 6-10in. 

 Leaflets 2-4 pair, falcate, very oblique at base, 3-5in. long ; 

 opposite or sub-opposite. Male panicles drooping, about as long 

 as the leaves, with numerous diverging branches, sparingly 

 lepidote. Female racemes few-flowered, supra-axillary. Petio- 

 lule i-fin., or terminal one longer. Male flower fin., yellow. 

 Bracts caducous, 2 at the base of the calyx. Calyx 3-lobed. 

 Petals 3, anthers 6. Staminal-tube turbinate or sub-globose. 

 Seeds covered with a fleshy, bright orange-coloured aril. 

 Capsule globose, 2\\n. diam. Ovary 3-celled ; cells 2-ovuled. 

 3-valved. 



Use : — Leaves when bruised applied to reduce inflammation 

 (Prain's Flora of the Sunderbuns, p. 292). 



269. Walsura piseidia, Boxb, h. f. b. i., 

 i. 564. 



Vern.: — Walasura, wallursi (Bomb.); Walsura (Tarn.); 

 Chadda-vakku, walsurai, kanna-kampu (Tarn.) in Ceylon ; Vala- 

 rasi, walurasi (Tel.; (Sinhalese) Kiri-Kon, Mol-petta. ; ( Tamil ) 

 Chedavakku. 



Habitat : —Western Peninsula ; Malabar and Travancore. 

 Trimen : Habitat — Malabar and Travancore, very common in 

 the low country of Ceylon. 



A glabrous, generally middle-sized, at times a large, tree. 

 bark sin. ; greyish brown, tessallated in somewhat erect angular 

 squares. Wood hard ; sapwood reddish brown, heart-wood 

 dark red, much streaked with black, close-grained. Leaves 

 trifoliate, 2-7in. Leaflets pinkish, says Trimen, 2-3in. long, 

 elliptic, obtuse, often retnse, glabrous, shining, pale beneath. 



