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Parts used : — The seeds, leaves and flowers. 



Uses: — Described by Hindoo writers as cooling and useful 

 in inflammatory affections ; tlie oil of the seeds is given in white 

 leprosy, and the powdered seeds, as an astringent ; the flowers 

 and leaves are applied in local inflammations, such as boils, 

 erysipelas, &c. (Duttj. 



The seeds are astringent, given in piles, diarrhoea, gonor- 

 rhoea, &c; the oil extracted from them is said to cure white 

 leprosy. The flowers are considered by the natives as a cooling 

 medicine, and are externally applied to boils, eruptions, and 

 swellings. The leaves are regarded as useful in ophthalmia, 

 and afford good fodder for cattle. (Baden- Powell's Punjab 

 Prod. s. v. Acacia speciosa, page 345.) 



458. Pithecolobium Bigeminum, Benth. h.f.b.i., 

 ii. 303. 



Syn.: —Mimosa lucida, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. n. 544. Inga bigemina 

 Willd. 



Vern.: — Kachlora (H.). 



Habitat :- -Forests of the outer Himalaya, from the Ganges 

 eastward and of South India. 



A large tree ; wood light brown, soft, subterete. Branchlets, 

 common petioles and inflorescence rusty-puberulous. Pinnas 

 and leaves long-petioled. Pinnae 2-3 pair; leaflets of the lowest 

 pinnae 1-3, of the terminal 3, sometimes 4 pair, elliptic, 

 acuminate, glabrous, dark-green. Flowers cream-coloured, 

 iin. long to extremity of stamens, sessile or shortly pedicelled 

 in 2-5-fid heads. Heads in slender, terminal or supra-axillary 

 panicles. Pod flat, not indented between seeds, 3-5 by fin , 

 bright red within, curved into a ring or spiral. 



Use: — A decoction of the leaves is a medicine for leprosy 

 and is used as a stimulant to promote the growth of hair, 

 (Atkinson). 

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