N. 0. LEGUMIN0S2E. 499 



or given as a draught beaten up in milk (Dymock). The 

 bark is a powerful astringent and demulcent. It may be used 

 as a substitute for oak galls. It has been found a valuable 

 remedy in prolapsus ani, as an external applicant in leucorrhoea 

 and has been recommended as a poultice for ulcers, attended 

 with sanious discharge (Ph. Ind.) 



446. A. Leueophloea, Willd., h.f.b.l, ir. 294, 

 Roxb. 421, 



Vern. : — Safed kikar, reru, raunj, karir, nimbar, ringa, rinj, 

 rohani, jhind (H.) ; Safed-babul (B) ; Sharab-ki-kikar, hivar 

 (Duk.) ; Goira (Uriya) ; Safed kikar (Pb.) ; Tumma, reunja, rinja 

 (Gond.); Haribaval (Guz.) ; Hivar, pandharya babhuliche jhada 

 (Mar.) ; Vel-velam, vet-vel, vevay-lam (Tarn.) ; (Tella-tuma) 

 (Tel.) ; Bili-jali, togral naibela, vel-vaila, bilijali topal (Kan.) 



Habitat :— Plains of the Punjab, Central and S. India, and 

 Rajputana. 



A moderate-sized or large deciduous tree* Bark ^in. thick : 

 colour varying with age, grey and smooth when young, dark- 

 brown, almost black and rough when old ; exfoliating irre- 

 gularly in patches and strips. Wood hard ; sap wood large, 

 heartwood reddish brown, or nearly brick-red, white or grey. 

 Leaves bipinnate, 2-3in. long ; main rachis grey-pubescent, 

 with sessile, cup-shaped, absorption-glands between each pair 

 of pinnae, on the grooved upper-side ; pinnae 5-15 pair, f-ljin. 

 long, nearly sessile ; leaflets 12-25 pair, I'm. long, linear, oblong, 

 obtuse, coriaceous, grey, glabrous or pubescent. Flowers pale- 

 yellow or white, in small globose heads, i-§in. diam., arranged 

 in large, terminal, tomentose panicles ; peduncles shoot with a 

 ring of bracts about the middle. Calyx minute, ^in. long. 

 Corolla twice as long as the Calyx ; lobes subacute. Pods sessile, 

 4-8 by i — T 3 o in., flat, slightly curved, brown-tomentose, thickened 

 on the sutures, subindehiscent, 10-20-seeded ; seeds compressed, 

 black areolate (Talbot). 



Part used : — The bark. 



Use : — The bark partakes more or less of the astringent 

 properties of A. arabica (Watt). 



