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The leaves are prescribed as an infusion for piles in the 

 N. W. P. (Atkinson). 



In Chutia Nagpur, the powdered root is given when from 

 weakness the patient vomits his food ; the fruit and leaves are 

 also used medicinally (Revd. A. Campbell). 



444. Acacia Farnesiana, Willd., h.f.b.l, ii. 292. 



Syn. : — Mimosa farnesiana, Linn. Eoxb. 421. 



Vern. : — Vilayati kikar, Vilayati babul, Gu-kikar (H.) ; Guya 

 babla (B.) ; Vedda vala, Piy-Velam (Tarn.) ; Pivelam (Mai.) ; 

 Piyi-tnmma, Kampu-tumma, Naga-tumma (Tel.); Jali (Kan.); 

 Gui-babhul (Mar.) ; Talbaval (Guz.) ; Kue bawal (Sind.) 



Habitat : — Himalayas to Ceylon. 



A thorny shrub. Bark light brown, rough. Wood hard, 

 close-grained ; sapwood white ; heart-wood irregular. Branches 

 striate, glabrous, curved with pale-brown lenticels. Stipular 

 spines white, straight, ^--fin. long, hard, sharp, divaricate. 

 Leaves bipinnate ; rachis l-2in. long, angular, pubescent, with 

 a small raised gland about the middle of the petiole ; pinnae 4 — 8 

 pair, f-1 Jin. long ; leaflets 10-20 pair, ^ — ^ by xi — so m *> linear, 

 acute, glabrous, sessile ; base rounded, oblique. Flowers bright- 

 yellow, powerfully sweet-scented, in globose fasciculate heads 

 Jin. diam.; peduncles f-lin. long, on axillary nodes with a ring 

 of small membranous bracts near the middle or close to the 

 flowers. Calyx carapanulate, very minute. Corolla lin. long ; 

 lobes short, triangular. Pod nearly cylendric pointed at the ends, 

 2-3Jin. long, by Jin. broad glabrous, brown, veined, indehiscent. 

 Seeds in 2 series, embedded in dry, spongy tissue (Talbot). 



Use : — The bark is astringent and often used as a substitute 

 for A. arabica bark. A. farnesiana used as an adjunct to 

 aphrodisiacs, in the treatment of spermatorrhoea (Calthrop). 

 The bark is used as an astringent in the form of a decoction. 

 Tender leaves bruised in a little water and swallowed ; said to 

 be useful in gonorrhoea. 



The oil of Cassia flowers contains benzaldehyde, salicylic acid, methyl 

 salicylate, benzyl alcohol, an aldehyde, which has an odour resembling that 

 of decyl-aldehyde and forms a semicarbazone melting at 97° and a Ketone, 

 which has an odour of violets and forms a semicarbazone melting at 143°. 

 Eugenol is not present.— J. Ch. S. 1903 A. I, 845, 

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