324 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



dissepiments remaining attached to the valves. Seeds imbricate, 

 oblong winged, compressed ; cotyledons plano-convex. Exal- 

 buminous. 



Found common in the dry regions of Ceylon. There is a 

 good tree in the Ratnngiri Club garden. It yields the well- 

 known satin wood, very hard, heavy, fine-grained, yellow, 

 (reddish-brown rather, K. R. K.), with a satiny lustre. It is the 

 principal timber from Ceylon (Trimen). 

 Parts used : — The bark and leaves. 



Use : — The astringent bark is sometimes prescribed (Dy- 

 mock). Leaves are applied to wounds (Beddome) : also used 

 in rheumatism (C. P. Gaz. 118). Watt ii. 270. 



N. 0. OLACINE^]. 



276. Olax seandens, Roxb. h. f. b. l, i 575 ; 



Roxb. 55. 



Vern. : — Dheniani (H.) ; Koko-arn (B.); Rimmel (Kol) ; 

 Bodo-bodo-ria (Yriya); Hund (Santal) ; Earduli ; Urchirri (Mar ) ; 

 Kurpodur ; marki ; malle, turka-vepa; bapanamushti ; kotiki 

 (Yd). Kakundan (Jabalpur) ; Kadalracnhi (Tarn.). 



Habitat :— Tropical Western Himalaya in Kumaon ; Oudh 

 Berar ; Central and Southern India. Rohilkund, Tenasserim, 

 Burma, Ceylon (dry country rather common.) 



A large, rambling shrub, sometimes a climber. Bark grey, 

 i'm. thick, deeply cleft vertically, vessels large. Wood porous, 

 yellow- white, soft (Gamble.) Trunk as thick as a man's thigh. 

 A few stout thorns on the older branches. Branches terete, 

 more or less puberulous, prickly, stout, curved. Branchlets, 

 petiole and midrib puberulous. Leaves distichous, ovate, 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 2-3in. long, yellowish-green, 

 glabrous or sometimes puberulous beneath. Petiole jVJin. 

 Racemes solitary, axillary half the length of the leaves. Pedun- 

 cles erect, twice the length of the minute bracts. Flowers many, 

 white, sweet-scented, small, |in. Bracts ovoid caducous. Buds 

 ovoid. Calyx puberulous or glabrescent. Petals 3-5-6, irre- 

 gularly cleft. More or less cohering, says Brandis ; linear, acute, 

 recurved. Fertile stamens 3, anthers oblong. Staminodes 2-fid. 



