486 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Applied locally in apthye. The fruit is diuretic ; an infusion 

 of the bark is used as an astringent gargle. The seeds made 

 into a paste with vinegar are said to be efficacious as a local 

 application to wounds inflicted by poisonous animals (Dr. 



Emerson). 



432. B. racemosa, Sam. Diet, i. 390 ; h.f.b.i., 

 if. 276, Roxb. 345. 



Syn. : — B. parviflora, Vahl. 



Sans. : — Svetakanchan. 



Vern. : — Kachnal, gurial, thaur, astha, makkuna, mania, 

 dhorara, marvil, ghila (H.); Banraj, banraji (B.) ; Kaimu ^Kol.); 

 Beriju (Santal.) ; Ambhota (Uriya) ; Mania, dhorara (C. P.); 

 Kosundra, taur (Fb.) ; Astra, bosha (Gond.) ; Jhinja (Ajmere) ; 

 Amba bhosa (Bhil.) Are-ka-jhar (Duk.); Areka, are-maram (Tarn.); 

 Ari, are, adda (Tel.); Apta, apata, Wanraja, Seyara (Mar.) ; Supta 

 (Kan.). 



Habitat : — Met with in the Sub-Himalayan tract, in the Pun- 

 jab, Oudh, Bengal, Central and South India. 



A small, crooked, deciduous, bushy tree. Bark iin. thick, 

 blackish, very rough, with deep vertical cracks. Wood brown, 

 hard, with irregular dark patches near the centre ; in alternate 

 concentric wavy band of dark hard and pale soft tissue, of nearly 

 equal widths, the soft bands anatomosing (Gamble). Bran- 

 ches drooping. Leaves broader than long, small, deeply cleft, 

 7-9-nerved, rigidly coriaceous, lobes rounded, clothed more or 

 less densely beneath with grey pubescence. Racemes short- 

 peduncled, lax, terminal and leaf-opposed, J-^ft. long, with 

 densely grey downy rachises ; pedicels i-^in. ; erecto-patent. 

 Calyx-tube turbinate, not more than T ^in. long; limb i-fin. 

 not splitting up. Petals oblanceolate, yellow (J. G. Baker), 

 as long as the Calyx-limb, unequal. ' Flowers small, white,' says 

 Brandis. Pale-white, says Kanjilal. Stamens 10, all perfect, 

 united at the base. Filaments and anthers with long hairs. Stig- 

 ma sessile. Pod thick, generally curved, 4-1 2in. long, 4in. 

 broad, not venulose, falcate, firm, glabrous, turgid, stalk above 

 an inch long. Seeds 10-20. 



Parts used : — Gum and leaves. 



