330 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



I have also used this oil in some simple and uncomplicated 

 cases of dropsy, and with good and encouraging results. 



The seeds are supposed to have the property of 

 stimulating the intellect and sharpening the memory. The 

 oil is used in the courts and colleges by a great many pandits 

 and munshis to increase the intelligence of their pupils. 



282. Gymnosporia montana, Roxb. H. f. b. l. 

 i. 621, Roxb. 208. 



Sanskrit : — Vaikankat, Vikankat. 



Vern. :— (Baluch) — Vingar ; (Hindi) Baikal; (Ajmer) Kakra; 

 (Marathi) Bharuli ; (Kanara Tandraja) ; Sherawane. (Trans- 

 Indus) ; Talkar, kharai (Pb.) ; Baikal, gaja-chinni (C. P.); Mai 

 Kangoni, Zekadi (Bomb. ) ; Danta, babur (Gordi) ; Danti, pedda 

 chintu (Tel.) 



J. Indraji : — (Porebunder) Vikaro ; (Guj.) Vikalo ; 

 (Marathi) Vekar, Vekal ; (flindi) Kingani. 



Habitat : — Throughout the drier parts of Central, South- 

 western and North- Western India, common in the Punjab, 

 Sindh, Rajputana. Central Provinces, Bihar, and the drier 

 districts of the Peninsula. Flower at various times of the year. 

 Afghanistan Malay Archipelago. 



A tall armed shrub, spines often bearing leaves and flowers ; 

 under favourable circumstances a small tree. Leaves grey, 

 coriaceous, exceedingly variable in shape and size, obovate, 

 oblanceolate to linear-spathulate, narrowed into the petiole. 

 Flowers small, pale, greenish white. Cymes axillary or fasci- 

 culate, on short branchlets, often forming terminal, elongate 

 panicles. Capsule fin., usually 2-valved. Seeds 1,2, rarely 3. 



Use : — The bark ground to a paste, applied with other 

 oils to the head, for destroying pediculi. 



283. Elceodendron glaucum, Pers. H. F. B. I., 

 i. 623, Roxb. 214. 



Syn. : — E. Roxburghii, W. and A. 



