468 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



416. Wagatea spieata, Dalz. h.f.b.i., ii. 260. 



Vern. : — Wagati, Wakeri, Kuldgajga(M.); Hooliganji, Vagati 

 (Kan.). 



Habitat : — Western Presidency. 



A robust, wood} 7 , prickly, climbing shrub, with long trailing 

 prickly branches. Leaves abruptly bipiimate, f-lft. long and 

 broad. Pinnae 8-10 pair ; leaflets glabrous, elliptic-oblong, l-2in. 

 long, nearly sessile, oblong, acute, rigidly sub-coriaceous, 

 venulose. Flowers nearly subsessile, in long dense spikes, 

 bright scarlet on a thick furrowed brown-velvety racing. Bracts 

 minute, lanceolate, cuspidate. Calyx scarlet, campanulate, -fin., 

 segments 5, the lowest much longer than the others. Petals 

 orange, 5, equal, oblanceolate, inserted with the stamens on the 

 side of the disk lining the Calyx-tube. Pod indehiscent, 4-5- 

 seeded, more or less constricted between seeds. 



Use : -The pods (Tere pods) contain a large proportion of 

 tannic acid. Roots used in cases of pneumonia (Talbot's List 

 of Trees, Shrubs and Woody Climbers of the Bombay Presidency, 

 2nd edition, p. 143). Bark yields a dye material and is used 

 as an application for skin diseases. 



417. Cassia Fistula, Linn, h f.b.i., n. 261, Roxb. 

 348. 



Syn. : — Cathartocarpus Fistula (Pers.). 



Bug. : — The Indian Laburnum or Purging Cassia. 



Sans. : — Suvarnaka, araghadha, rajataru. 



Vern. :— Amaltas, girmalah (H. and D.); Alash, ali, karangal, 

 kiar, kaniar (Pb.) ; Rajbriksk, kitola (Kumaon) ; Rajbriksha 

 (Nepal); Chimkani (Sind.); Sundah, sonali, amultis, bandarlati 

 (B.) ; Nurnic (Santah); Hari (Kol.) ; Sonalu (Garo) ; iSanaru (Ass.); 

 Bandolat (Cacbar); Sandari or Sunari (Uriza) ; Kitawab, sitoli, 

 itola, bhimarra, sim (N. W. P.) ; Warga (Oudh) ; Jaggarwah, 

 raila, pirojah, karkacha (C. P.); Jaggra, jugarua, kambar, rera 

 (Gond.); Bahava, bhawa, baya, bawa(Mar.) ; Garmal or Sarmala 

 ( Guz.) ; Kouraili-kAy, sharak-kouraik-kay, koue (Tarn.) ; Reylu, 



