444 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



This is a fairly useful anthelmintic and a good substitute 

 for santonine, in some cases acting very well, indeed. 



Preparations. — Powdered seeds, dose fifteen to thirty grains 

 twice or thrice a day, followed by castor-oil on the succeeding 

 morning. The gum has been only lately used in this hospital ; 

 but as an astringent, it is found to be a useful substitute for 

 kino in the ordinary cases of diarrhoea and dysentery, of chil- 

 dren especially. Preparations and dose, &c, are similar to 

 Kino." (Apothecary F. G. Ashworth, Kumbakonam). The 

 leaves are astringent and used by the Natives as a poultice 

 to dispel tumorous haemorrhoids, buboes, etc. The seeds are 

 anthelmintic in doses of 20 grains. The gum is very astrin- 

 gent, and, in doses of five grains, most useful in checking 

 serous diarrhoea. In large doses, it is efficacious in hagmorrhage 

 from the stomach and bladder. A strong solution of the 

 gum is said to be a useful application for bruises and erysi- 

 pelatous inflammations." Surgeon E. A. Barker, Doomka. 



The seeds contain 18*2 per cent, of fat (Waeber, 1386). The oil is yellow, 

 nearly tasteless and solidifies at 10' (Lepine). Brannt records the specific 

 gravity at 0*927. 



387. B. superba, Boxb. h.f.b.i., ii. 195, Roxb. 

 541. 



Sans. : — Lata-palasa. 



Vern, :~Tiwat, tiwas, palas-wel (Bom.); Tiga-muduga (Tel.) ; 

 Lata-palash (B.) ; Nari-murup (Santal) ; Vel-khakar (Guz.) ; Bel- 

 palas (Dec.) ; Kodi-murukkam, kodi-palsham (Tarn.) ; Balli-mut- 

 taga (Kan.) ; Valliplach-aha, valli-muruk-ka (Mai.). 



Habitat : — Forests of the Ooncan, Bengal, Orissa, Burma, 

 Oudh, Central India, and the Circars. 



A gigantic climber. Bark dark brown, thick, very fibrous. 

 Wood dark-brown, very porous and fibrous. It yields a gum 

 like Kino. Stems thick as a man's leg. Does not differ from B. 

 superba in botanic characters ; leaves and flowers scarcely 

 distinguishable from B. superba. Leaflets and flowers larger, 

 says J. G. Baker. Leaflets chartaceous, acuminate, says Brandis. 

 Flowers of a gorgeous orange colour on pedicels 3 times the 

 length of Calyx. Lower Calyx-teeth lanceolated, deltoid. Keel 



