456 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



1J-4 by J-fin., narrowed at both ends, glabrous, 2-3-seeded, 

 long-stalked, oval, compressed (Talbot). 



Uses: — The bark and an oil obtained from the seeds are 

 medicinally used by the Natives (Beddome). 



The Santals use the bark along with that of Flacourtia 

 Ramontchi as an external application during intermittent fever. 

 The leaves and the roots are also employed medicinally (Rev. 

 A. Campbell). 



403. D. volubilis Boxb. h f.b.i., ii. 235, 

 Roxb. 536. 



Vern, : — Alei, Munganver iBomb.) ; Bandee-gurjun (Tel.) ; 

 Bhatia, bankhara (H.) ; Bir-munga, nari-siris (Santal.) ; Nubari 

 (Uriya) ; Rangdi (Mai.); Bhatia (Kumaon). 



Habitat. — Sub-Himalayan tract, from Kumaon eastward; Oudh 

 forests, Bihar, Central and Southern India, Phoondaghaut, near 

 Sawantwadi, in the Bombay Presidency. Common in Burma 

 and the Andamans. 



A large scrambling or climbing unarmed tree, with green 

 glabrous, circinate branches, i, e., often bent and twisted 

 into spinal hooks. Bark thin, brown, peeling off in flakes, 

 wood light-brown, hard { Gamble). Leaves 4-6in. long ; rachis 

 pubescent. Leaflets 9-13, elliptic or obovate, often minutely 

 mucronate at apex, l-2in. long (Brandis); or 11.-13, thin glabrous, 

 oblong, obtuse, apiculate, terminal largest ; petiolules 2 0in. long. 

 (Talbot). Flowers small, curved, pale-blue, in compact, large, 

 pubescent panicles. Corolla pale-lilac, says Talbot. Stamens 

 10in., 2 bundles of 5 each. Pod 2-3in. long, fin. broad, 

 1- rarely 2- seeded, linear-oblong, obtuse, stalked, glabrous, 

 thickened and veined opposite the seeds 



Use : — In the Con can, the juice of the leaves is applied to 

 aphthae, and used as a gargle in sore-throat. The root-juice, 

 with cumin and sugar is given in gonorrhoea (Dymock). 



404. D. spinosa, Boxb. h. f.b.i., ii. 238. Roxb. 

 536. 



Habitat : — Tidal forests along the coasts, from Chittagong to 

 Tenasserim ; also on the Ghats and on the coast of the Western 

 Peninsula. 



