464 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Habitat : — Cbitagong, Sylhet, and the Eastern and Western 

 Peninsulas. 



A large, scandent, prickly shrub. Branches slender, very 

 nexuous. Prickles copious, dark-coloured, hooked. Pinnee 2-5 

 pair. Leaflets distinctly petioluled, lj-2in. long, obtuse, coria- 

 ceous, glossy above. Racemes axillary and terminal, copiously 

 panicled, with spreading branches; pedicels as long as the calyx, 

 Calyx glabrous, |-|in. Petals scarcely exserted. Filaments densely 

 woolly in the lower half. Pod 2in. long, broad oblong, coriaceous 

 pointed at both ends, hard indehiscent, rather turgid, 1-seeded. 



Use : — The roots of this plant are said to be diuretic ; they 

 hpve been reported as useful in gravel and stone in the bladder, 

 and the juice of the stem has been used externally and in- 

 ternally in eye diseases. For the same purpose are used also 

 the roasted fruits, which have a bitter taste. The finely 

 powdered leaves have also been administered to women im- 

 mediately after delivery as a tonic to the uterus (Watt, ii. 10 j. 



412. C. Sappan Linn, h.f.b.i., ii. 255, Roxb. 

 356. 



Sans. : — Patang. 



Vern. : — Bokam, tairi, patang (H. B.) ; Teri (Santal) ; Bokmo 

 (Ooriya) ; Patang-na-lakaru, patang-mu-lakado, bakam (Guz.) ; 



Patang-ki-lakri (Duk.) ; Patang (Mar.); Patanga, vatlangi, 

 vatteku, vartangi (Tarn.) ; Bakanur, bakapu. okaunkatta, 

 pattanga-katta, bakaun-ckekka, bukkapu-chekka (Tel.) ; Patan- 

 ga-chekke, sappanga (Kan.; ; Chappanum (Mai.). 



Habitat : — The Eastern and Western Peninsulas. 



A small sub-glabrous tree or struggling shrub. Wood hard. 

 Sapwood white, heart-wood orange yellow, says Gamble. The 

 heart-wood is red and takes a fine polish says Talbot. Prickles 

 small and few. Leaf-rachis \ 1 ft. long, leaflets No. 30 moderately 

 small oblong very oblique subsessile corinceous, Pinn No. 24. 

 Panicles often as long as the leaves, the young branches, 

 slightly perruginous-pubescent ; bructs large, lanceolate cadu- 

 cous ; pedicels \ f in. Calyx f in. Glabrous. Filaments densely 

 worthy in the lower helf, slightly exserted. Ovary grey velvety. 

 Pod 3-4 in, by LJ in. sub-compressed, polished oblique oblong 



