N. 0. LEGUMINOSiE. 487 



Use : — A decoction of the leaves is used to allay headache in 

 malarious fevers (Dymock). The gum is used medicinally in 

 South India (I. L. Stewart]. 



433. B. retusa, Ham. h.f.b.l, ii. 279, Roxb. 345. 



Vern. : — Kandla, kanalla, kuyral, gvvayral ; Semla(H..; Kural 

 (Pb.); Laba(KoL); Thaur (Gond.) ; Nirpa (Tel). 



Habitat: — N. W. Himalaya, from the Beas eastward, ascend- 

 ing to 4,500ft ; Central India. 



A middle-sized, deciduous, erect tree. Bark Jin. thick, dark 

 brown, with vertical cracks, often much scored by the cut of 

 gum-collectors. Wood red, with irregular dark-red or black 

 patches and streaks near the centre, hard, having pale bands or 

 soft tissue, which alternate with dark bands of firmer texture. 

 Branchlets long, slender, pendulous. Leaves round-cordate, 

 cleft only at the very tip ; coriaceous, broader than long, 3-8in. 

 across, 9-11-nerved, glabrous beneath. Flowers numerous, in 

 pedunculate corymbose racemes, forming long terminal panicles, 

 sometimes lft. long, clothed with fine, grey, silky, pubescence, 

 the lower corymbs springing from the axils of reduced leaves. 

 Pedicels long, slender, lower ones asce nding, i-f in. long. Bracts 

 and bracteoles minute, caducous. Calyx-limb splitting into 2 or 3 

 segments -g-in. long. Bud ovoid. Petals oblong, clawed, hairy 

 outside, blade orbicular, pale-yellow, marked with dark purple 

 veins. Fertile stamens 3 ; style produced, stigma large. Pod 

 late— dehiscing, 4-6 by lin., generally broader at top, glabrous. 

 Seeds 6-8. 



Use : — The gum is used as an external application to sores. 

 It is considered as an emmenagogue and diuretic by some 

 native practitioners (Dr. Emerson). 



434. B. Vahlii, W. and A. Prodr. 297 ; h.f.b.l, 

 ii. 279. 



Syn. : — B. racemosa, Valil., Roxb. 346. 



Vern. : — Taur (Pb.) ; Malghan, maljan, mahi, marraim, jallaur 

 iH.) ; Chehur (B.) ; Sihar, maul mahalan (C. P.) ; Borla fNepal) ; 

 Sliioli (Uriya); Adda (Tarn.) ; Chamboli, Chambuli. (Dec); 



