N. O. CELASTRINE^. 327 



Habitat : — Western Peninsula, Annamally Hills (S. India), 

 Ceylon between 1,000-4,000 ft., rather rare. 



Vera : — Trim en : Sinhalese, Kokun, Wana-potu. 



A very large tree, much-branched. Bark rough, corky, 

 grey, bright yellow within. Wood pale, yellowish brown, 

 smooth, light, readily splitting. Young parts glabrous. Leaves 

 2J-4in., obovate, cuneate at base, rounded or retuse at apex, 

 entire or faintly serrate, coriaceous, glabrous, paler beneath and 

 there punctate with numerous, minute, glandular dots, each 

 covered with a red scale. Petiole about Jin. Stipules very 

 minute, triangular, persistent. Flowers dull, yellowish-brown, 

 Jin., in axillary or extra-axillary panicles, much shorter than the 

 leaves. Pedicels glabrous. Bracts minute. Calyx glabrous, 

 lobes very shallow. Petals broadly ovate, or rounded, concave, 

 thick-dotted, within stamens shorter than the petals Disk fleshy, 

 dark green. Capsule nearly 4inches, oblong-ovoid, bluntly 

 trigonous, valves thick, coriaceous, glabrous. Seed compressed, 

 over 5in. long (with the wing) ; wing broadly oblong, straight 

 on one side, oblong, veined, orange-yellow. 



Use : — The inner yellow bark is employed medicinally. 

 It is also made into a kind of snuff, which excites copious 

 secretion, and is considered beneficial in headache (Watt). 



281. Gelastrus paniculatus, Willd. h. f. b. l, 

 i. 617. Roxb. 209. 



Syn. :— C multiflora, and C. nutans, Roxb. 



Habitat: — Tropical and sub-tropical Himalaya, Punjab 

 and throughout the hilly districts of India ; Burma, Ceylon. 



Sans : — Jyotishmati. Kanguni. 



Jyotishmati is also one of the Sanskrit names of Cardios- 

 permum helieacabum. 



Vern. : — Mal-Kangni (H. and Bomb.); Mal-Kakni (Oudh, 

 Kumaun) ; Kahundan rangul (C. P.) Kangoni, pigavi (Mar.) ; 

 Ruglim (Lepcha; ; Valuluvai, atiparich-cham (Jam.) ; Mal- 

 kanguni-vittulu Tel.) ; Sankhu (Pb.) ; Kariganue (Kan.) Mal- 

 kanguni-ka-jantar (Dec.) 



J. Indraji : — ( Porebunder and Guj. ) Malakankana ; 



