320 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



10-14 pair, alternating with shorter, intermediate ones ; tertiary 

 nerves prominently reticulate. Flowers bisexual. Pentamerous, 

 greenish white, in large terminal panicles, with triangular bracts. 

 Petals obovate, narrowed into a claw, contorted in bud. Stami- 

 nal-tube cup-shaped, 10-cleft, each segment with 2 short/fleshy 

 teeth, the anthers between them on a short filament. Capsule 

 smooth, l-2in. long, 5-celled, valves separating from the dissepi- 

 ments, which remain attached to the thick spongy axis. Seeds 

 numerous in each cell, flat, imbricated, winged at both ends. 



Reproduces itself by root suckers. 

 (j ses ■ — The bark is officinal in the Indian Pharmacopoeia 

 where it is described as astringent, tonic and antiperiodic. 



In intermittent fevers and general debility, in the advanc- 

 ed stages of dysentery, in diarrhoea, and in other cases requi- 

 ring the use of astringents, it has been used with success. 



Of the powdered bark, a drachm twice daily. This is the 

 best form of administration. 



The decoction forms a good substitute for oak-bark, and 

 is well adapted for gargles, vaginal injections and enemas.— 

 (Ph. Ind.) 



273. Chickrassia tabularis, Adv. Juss., h.f.b.l, 



i. 568. 



Syn. : — Swietenia Chickrassia, Eoxb. 370. 



Eng. : — The Chittagong wood. 



Vem. : — Chikrassi, pabba, dalmara (B.) ; Boga poma 

 (Ass.); Pabha pubha (Bom.); Pabba, palara, mil (Mar.); 

 Aglay, agal, agle-marum, elcutharay (Tarn.) ; Madagari vembu 

 Chittagong chettu, Chittagong karru, cheta kum karra (Tel.) ; 

 Dovedale (Mai.) ; Dalmara, lal devdari (Kan.) ; Maiu (Hydera- 

 bad). Hulanhik (Sinhalese) ; Aglad Kaloti (Tamil.) 



Habitat : — Low country, Ceylon ; Western Peninsula, from 

 the Concan to the Coorg ; also in Bombay, Malacca, Assam, 

 Eastern Bengal, Chittagong, Forests of Burma, from Shan Hills, 



A very large tree. Bark reddish brown, deeply vertically 



