394 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



adiai (Garo.) ; Amara (Nepal) ; Kouchiling (Lepcha) ; Kat, Am- 

 boham (Mai. S. P.) ; Ambuda (Uriya) ; Ambera (Kurku) ; Hamara 

 (Coond) ; Amra, amurs, bohamle, amara, araabara (Kumaon), 

 (Bahamo) ; Ambara (P. B.) ; Ran-amb, jungli am (Deccan) ; 

 Ambada, jangli-am, ambada, amra amarab, (Bomb.) ; Ro amba, 

 ambada (Mar.) ; Kat-maa, rhanamb, mariman, cbedi, katmora, 

 Ampullai (Tarn.) ; Puiille, kaders ambala chettupita, briksb, 

 amnivuru, mamidi, amatum, adivio-mamadie toura mamidi 

 (Tel.) ; Amte, ambatte mara, amate, pundi (Kan). Corre, kyoroe 

 (Burm) ; .ZEmbcreella (Sing,); Darakhte-moryam (Pers.). 



Habitat. — Throughout India, from the Indus eastwards and 

 southwards to Molacca and Ceylon. 



A large, glabrous, deciduous tree. Bark smooth, aromatic 

 grey, with short shallow, longitudinal wrinkles. Wood soft, 

 light grey. Leaves 1-1-J ft. ; petiole slender. Leaflets 3-5 pair, 

 quite entire, elliptic-oblong, acuminate 2-9 by 1-4 in., shortly 

 petiolulate, shining, more or less oblique ; secondary nerves 

 nearly straight, 10-20 pair, joined at the ends by a prominent 

 nerve, running along and close to the edge of the leaf-blade. 

 Flowers pentamerous, white, nearly sessile, clustered on stout 

 ramifications of a sparingly-branched, terminal panicle, poly- 

 gamous, nearly sessile. Calyx 5-toothed, deciduous. Petals 

 5, about t 1 ^ in. long, oblong, greenish white, spreading. Disk 

 cupular, crenate. Stamens 10, inserted below the disk ; 

 filaments subulate, shorter than the petals ; anthers versatile. 

 Ovary sessile, free. Carpels 4-5 distinct in flower, coalescing 

 into a single stone in the carpels. Drupe lJ-2 in. long, ovoid or 

 oblong, fleshy, smooth, acid and rose- scented, yellow when 

 lipe. Putamen fibrous and filled with cavities outside. Seeds 

 2-5, of which only one is perfect. 



Parts used. — The fruit, bark, leaves and gum. 



Use. — The pulp of the fruit is acid and astringent, and is 

 considered useful in bilious dyspepsia (Dymock). The bark is 

 sometimes used as a refrigerant medicine (T. N. Mukerji). 

 It is also useful in dysentery ; and the juice of the leaves is 

 used for ear-ache (Atkinson). 



