400 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Seeds white or pale yellow, 3-angled, f-f in. long, 3-winged. 

 Wings very thin, hyalive. 



Use : — The roots, as of M. pterygosperma, have a pungent 

 flavor, and are said to be used as a substitute for horse-radish. 

 (Murray). 



N. 0. CONNARACE-ffi. 

 338. Rourea santaloides, W. and A. h.f.b.l, ii. 47. 



Vern. :— Vardhara (Bom.) ; Wakeri (M.) ; Huleshadlabally 

 (Kan.). 



Habitat: — Western Peninusia, from the Concan to Travan- 

 core. 



A semi-scandent or small tree. Branchlets slender. Bark 

 shining, purplish ; buds pubescent. Leaves imparipinnate, 

 rachis, 3-6 in., slender, curved, glabrous. Leaflets often al- 

 ternate, 1-3 pair (2 or 3 pair and a terminal one — Trimen), glab- 

 rous, coriaceous, very shortly stalked, shining above, 2-3 in., 

 (2-5 in. — Trimen) oval or lanceolate Elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, 

 caudate-acuminate, rounded at base, with prominent reticulate 

 venation beneath. Secondary nerves, arching, conspicuous. 

 Flowers white, small, i in., on slender jointed pedicel, with a 

 minute, hairy bracteole at the joint ; arranged in lax, slender, 

 erect or ascending glabrous, recemose panicles, several of which 

 arise from leaf-axil. Calyx-segments strongly imbricate, or- 

 bicular, very obtuse, glabrous. Petals much longer than sepals, 

 oval-oblong, spreading. Stamens erect. Ovary glabrous ; styles 

 spreading. Fruit a capsule (Brandis), -J-l in. long. Follicles 

 \ in. or a little more, cylindric, falcately curved, tapering to a 

 point, apiculate, striate, surrounded at base by a leathery cup 

 formed of the much-enlarged and elongated sepals, dehiscing 

 ventrally, i.e., along the inner suture. Arillus orange-colour- 

 ed. Seed about J- in., oblong ovoid. Cotyledons plano-convex. 

 Flowers in April, says Trimen ; May-Oct., says Brandis. 



Habitat: — Ceylon up to 3,000 ft. Malabar coast, evergreen 

 forests of the Western Ghats, from the Concan southwards. 



Singhalese (Kirindi-wel;. 



