482 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Habitat : — Central and Eastern Himalayas, Kumaon, East 

 Bengal and South India. 



A large, erect evergreen tree. Wood light reddish-brown, 

 soft. Occasional faint, brown concentric belts of soft tissues. 

 Young shoots drooping and beautifully light to deep crimson. 

 Leaves sessile or subsessile ; leaflets 3-6 pair, oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute or obtuse, 3-9in. long, rigidly sub-coriaceous. 

 Flowers in dense corymbs, 3-4in. diam., orange on expanding, 

 gradually turning bright scarlet. Peduncles and pedicels 

 glabrous, coloured. Pedicels stout, J-iin. long, below the ob- 

 long-spathtilate, ascending-, amplexicaul bracteoles- Sepals 

 }-|in., obovate-oblong. Calyx-tube, Jin. long, twice the length 

 of lobes. Perfect stamens 7-8. Filaments thrice as long as 

 the sepals. Pod 6-10 by 2in., valves hard, reticulate. Seeds 

 4-8, oblong, compressed, ljin. long. 



Use : — The bark is much used by Hindu practitioners in 

 uterine affections and especially in menorrhagia A decoction 

 of the bark in milk is generally prescribed (Duttj. 



Dr. Waring says that it proved useful in a recurring haBinorr- 

 hoidal tumour in a member of H H. the Maharajah of 

 Travancore's family [B. M. J. and I. M. G., 1885, p. 26(K 

 Flowers pounded and mixed with water are used in hsemorr- 

 hagic dysentery (Watt). 



430. Tamarindus indica, Linn., h.f.b.i., ii. 273, 

 Roxb. 530. 



Sans. : — Tintidi ; Amlika. 



Vevn. : — Amli ; imli (H.) ; Tentul (B. ); Amli; Chintz (Bomb.); 

 Poolie (Tarn.); Balam Poolie (Mai.); Chinta-chettu (Tel.); 

 Karangi (Mysore j. 



Habitat : — Cultivated throughout India, as far north as the 

 Jhelam. 



A large, evegreen, unarmed tree. Bark Jin. thick, dark 

 grey, with longitudinal fissures and horizontal cracks. Wood 

 hard, close-grained ; sap wood yellowish white, sometimes with 



