496 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



root in cases of piles and fistula ; the first are given in powder, 

 in a little milk, to the quantity of two pagodas* weight or more 

 during the day (Ainslie). 



Tn the Concan, the leaves are rubbed into a paste and applied 

 to hydrocele ; and their juice, with an equal quantity of' horses' 

 urine, is made into an anjan, used to remove films of the con- 

 junctiva by setting up an artificial inflammation (Dymock). 



The juice of the leaves is used to impregnate cotton wool 

 for a dressing, in any form of sinus (Calthrop). 



443. M. rubrieaulis, Lam. h.f.b.l, ii. 291. 



Syn. : — M. mutabilis, Roxb. 423. 



Vern. :— Agla-agl, kingli, kacheyta (H.) ; Ral, rianb, didriar, 

 arlu, alia, kikri (Pb.) ; Hajern (Sind.) ; Aradi (Nepal.) ; Sibriu 

 (Lepcha); Chilatti (Bhil.) ; Shia-kanta, kuchi-kanta (B.) ; 

 Sega janum (Santal). ; Alia (Raj.) ; Hujiru (Sind.) ; Bida, chan- 

 dra, undra, ventra (Tel.). 



Habitat :— Western Himalaya, Kumaon, westward to Mi- 

 shuir and Bhotan, and through India Proper. 



A large, straggling, prickly, pubescent shrub or small tree. 

 Bark grey. Wood hard, sapwood yellowish white, heart-wood red. 

 Branches, petioles and peduncles, armed with short, curved, 

 sharp yellowish prickles. Stem attaining 5in. cliam. Leaves 

 bipinnate, 5-7in. long ; stipules ^in. long, setaceous ; pinnse 

 5-12 pair, shortly stipulate ; the rachis without prickles ; leaflets 

 6-12 pair, membranous, ^- T g by ^in., obliquely-oblong, shortly 

 cuspidate, glabrous above, slightly pubescent beneath ; midrib 

 excentric ; petiolules very short. Flowers 4-merous, pink, 

 in fascicled, axillary, pedunculate heads ; peduncles l-2in. 

 long, slender, pubescent, crowded at the ends of the branches ; 

 bracts small, setaceous. Calyx minute ciliolate. Corolla Jin. long, 

 shortly 4-lobed. Stamens 8, long-exserted. Ovary stalked, 

 glabrous. Pod 3-4in. by iin., stipitate glabrous, falcate, separat- 

 ing in 4-10 1 -seeded joints from the sutural frame which is 

 usually without prickles (Talbot). 



Use : — In Chamba, the bruised leaves are applied to burns, 

 and the fruit is also officinal (Stewart). 

 * A Pagoda weighs 54 grains. 



