508 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



odd one near the base. J-§ by T Vi m - linear, oblique at the base, 

 quite rounded at the tips, membranous, pale green above, 

 glaucous beneath ; midrib somewhat diagonal. Panicles 3-4ft. 

 long, interrupted with leaves at the base of the ramifications; 

 peduncles l-ljin. long, slender, downy, in fascicles of 2-4, lower 

 in the axils of the leaves, upper bracteate ; bracts iViim long, 

 obliquly ovate-cordate, deciduous. Heads f-Jin, diam. 55-60- 

 flowered, brick-red in bud. Flowers Jin. long. Calyx deep 

 crimson, about T ain. long, tubular, deeply 5-toothed ; teeth 

 subacute. Petals acute, white with a reddish median line, 

 slightly exserted ; stamens numerous, much exserted, at first 

 white, withering yellow ; filaments very slender. Pod 3-4 by 

 xVlm., straight, thick, fleshy ; 6-10-seeded, slightly idented 

 between the seeds. Sutures broad- 



Use : — The pod is acid, bitter, and has a singular pungency ; 

 its qualities are allowed to be deobstruent and detergent and 

 expectorant ; it is commonly ordered in cases of jaundice and 

 other biliary derangements, and is, besides, used by the Indians 

 like soap -nut for washing the head. The small leaves are 

 frequently put into pepper-water to keep the bowels open or 

 work off bile (Ainslie). 



The soft parts of the dried berries contain 5 p. c, and 

 those A. concinna, var, rugata 4 p. c. of the Saponin C 20 H 3a 

 O 10 .-J. Ch. S. 1901 A.I. 648. 



452. A. intsia, Willd., h.f.b.i., ii. 297. 



Syn. : — Mimosa intsia, Linn Eoxb. £24:. 



Habitat : — The Tropical Himalayas, Eastern and Western 

 Peninsulas. 



Vern. : — Arhai-ka-bel (Sutlej) ; Kartar (Kumaon) ; Kondoo- 

 janum (Santal.) ; Kundaru fKol.) ; Harrari (Nepal) ; Payirrik, 

 ugroemrik (Lepcha) ; Korinta, Korendam (Tel. ) ; Chilari (Mar.) 



A large prickly climber, at first with 5 vertical lines of 

 hooked prickles, afterwards deeply 5- flu ted along those lines, 

 suberect and bushy in early youth. Bark pale grey. Wood 

 white soft, porous. Leaf-rachis 5-7in. long, angled ; with a gland 

 near the base, and or 2-3 below the upper pinnae ; pinnae 6-8 

 pair, 2-3in. long. Leaflets 8-12 pair T o-i in - by i-^in., ligulate, 



