466 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Habitat : — Himalayas to Ceylon and Ava, Sutlej Valley. 

 Basantpur, Sabatbu, Western Peninsula. 



A straggling, woody, thorny, stout climber. Branches finely 

 downy, with small yellow prickles. Bark yellowish white, 

 corky, with corky excrescences bearing strong thorns.' Wood 

 light-brown, moderately hard, with masses of reddish-brown 

 harder wood near centre (Gamble). Leaves 2-pinnate, 10- 18in 

 Leaflets 10-24, opposite nearly sessile, oblong, J-lin., obtuse; 

 Trimen from Ceylon notes 20-24 leaflets (10-12 pair) ; fin., 

 sessile, closely placed, over-lapping, oblong, very obtuse, pubes- 

 cent on both sides, thin. Flowers large, bright, chrome-yellow ; 

 filaments crimson, Ijin.; pedicel l-l*in., stout, hairy, ascend- 

 ing. Racemes terminal, large, 6-12in. long, erect. Bracte 

 long, lanceolate, acuminate, caducous. Calyx finely, but densely, 

 pubescent. Segments very obtuse, petals shortly clawed, reflexed. 

 Stamens much exserted. Filaments woolly for more than lower 

 half. Ovary sessile, style glabrous ; stigma small. Pod glabrous, 

 cuspidate, nearly flat, obliquely oblong, 2-3 by lin., tipped with 

 the persistent style base. Seeds 4-8, mottled (Collet) ; 6-8. 

 oblong, gin., greenish, mottled (Trimen) ; compressed. 



Use : — In Chamba, the bruised leaves are applied to burns. 

 (Stewart, p. 60). 



415. G. digyna, Rottl. h.f.b.l, ii. 256. 



Syn. : — C. oleosperma, Roxh. 356. 



Vern. : — Vakeri-mul (H. and Bomb.;; Umul-koochi (B.) ; 

 Nooni-glika (Tel.) ; Vakeri-che-bhate f Bomb. J. 



Habitat : — Eastern and Western Peninsula, Assam, Bengal, 

 Chittagong, Burma, upper and lower ; Sambalpur (C. P.), Ce} T - 

 lon. Eastern Himalaya. 



A large, scandent, woody shrub, sparingly prickly. Branches 

 glabrous, purple, with hooked brown prickles, which latter 

 are scattered and uniform. Young parts rufous-pubescent. 

 Leaves narrow, main rachis 6-8in., with 9-12 pair of pinnae, 

 with rachis l|~2in. pubescent. Leaflets 20-24 1 10-12 pair), 

 § in., sessile, closely placed, overlapping, oblong, very obtuse, 

 pubescent on both sides, thin, dark-green, membranous. 

 Flowers Jin., yellow; pedicel lin., horizontally divaricate, 



