458 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



with fine adpressed hairs. Flowers few, in short axillary or 

 terminal racemes. Calyx J-Jin., teeth deltoid, minute. Limb 

 of standard not longer than the Calyx. Stamens 2-3, monadel- 

 phous. 



Use : — There are three kinds of sandalwood, according to 

 the Sanskrit writers — white, yellow and red. The red variety is 

 considered astringent, tonic, and is used as a cooling external 

 application for inflammation and headache. (Dutt.) 



Considered by the Natives a hot remedy, useful in bilious 

 affections and skin diseases, also in fever, boils, and to 

 strengthen the sight. It also acts as a diaphoretic, and is ap- 

 plied to the forehead in headache (Baden Powell). 



The wood, rubbed up with water, is advantageously em- 

 ployed as a wash in superficial excoriations of the genital organs 

 (Surgeon-Major Gray). Used also over swelling of eyelids for 

 reducing the swelling, (K. R. K.) 



A decoction of the legume is useful as an astringent tonic 

 in chronic dysentery, after separation of the slough (Surgeon- 

 Major Shircore, Watt's Dictionary). 



406. P. marsupium, Roxb. h.f.b.l, ii. 239, 

 Roxb. 536. 



Vern. : — Bija, bijilar, peetshola (H .); Bibla, huni, asan 

 (Bomb.) ; Kandamiruga-mirattam, vengai (Tarn.) ; Gandunv 

 rugam-nettura, peddagi, pedei, zegi (Tel.) ; Karin-thagara \Mal.) 



The gum — Kamarkas (PL); Chinai-gond (Bomb.). 



Habitat :— All parts of the Madras Peninsula, extending 

 North to the Rajmahal Hills in Bihar and Central India. 



A large, deciduous tree. Bark gin. thick, grey, with long 

 vertical cracks, exfoliating in small pieces of irregular shape 

 and size. Wood very hard, close-grained, giving a red resin ; 

 sapwood small ; heartwood yellowish-brown, with darker streaks. 

 Leaves with soft adpressed hairs while young, dark green, 

 shining. Leaflets 5-7, coriaceous, elliptic-obtuse, emarginate, 

 sometimes shortly acuminate, glabrous when full grown. 

 Secondary nerves 15-20 pair, with intermediate ones joined 

 by prominent reticulate veins. Flowers yellow or white, 

 pedicels much shorter than Calyx, in terminal panicles. Calyx 



