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coloured to dark brown. Wood pinkish white, turning dark- 

 brown on exposure, moderately hard ; wavy concentric bands 

 of soft tissue alternating with darker coloured bands of firm 

 tissue. Leaves 3-6in. long, rather large than broad, some- 

 times overlapping at the inner margins ; petiole l-ljin. long. 

 Flowers deep-rose in paniculate or corymbose racemes ; pedicels 

 £-§in. long, tomentose ; buds obovoid or oblong, acute, 

 strongly 5-ribbed. Calyx-tube j%-%m, long. Limb nearly twice 

 as long, slit on one-side, 5-toothed at the apex. Petals red- 

 dish, lj-2in, long, oblanceolate, clawed, with a distinct midrib 

 and fine straight lateral veins. Stamens usually 3, fertile, 

 slightly shorter than the petals ; staminodes filiform, of varying 

 lengths, oblique. Pod 6-10in. by §-|in., on a tomentose 

 stipe, f-lin. long, thick pointed, slightly falcate, greenish- 

 purple, pubescent along the sutures, late in dehiscing. Seed 

 12-15 (Kanjilal). 



Parts used : — The bark, root and flowers. 



Uses : — The bark or root and flowers mixed with 

 rice water, used as a maturant for boils and abscesses (T. N. 

 Mukerji). A decoction of the astringent bark is recommended 

 as a useful wash in ulcers (U. C. Dutt). The bark acts as 

 an astringent in diarrhoea (Barren). The root carminative ; the 

 flowers laxative. (Watt). 



436. B. variegata, Linn., h.f.b.l, ii. 284, Roxb. 

 344. 



Sans. : — Kovidara ; Kanchanara. 



Vera. — Kachnar, koliar, kural padrian, khwairaal, gurial, 

 gwiar, barial, kaniar, kandan, khairwal (H.) ; Rakta-kanchan 

 (B); Kurmang (Mechi.) ; Singya (Kol.) ; Jingya (Santal ) ; Taki 

 (Nepal) ; Rba (Lepcha) ; Kanchan, ragta kanchan (Mar.) ; 

 Kanchan (Concan) ; Kovidar (Bomb.) ; Segapu-munthari (Tarn.) ; 

 Kanchivalado (Kan ) ; Boraru (Uriya). 



Hahitat: — From the foot of the Western Himalayas and 

 Sikkim, throughout India. 



A middle-sized, deciduous, erect tree, with moderately stout, 

 glabrescent branchlets. Bark grey, with vertical cracks. Wood 

 greyish-brown, with irregular patches of harder and darker 



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