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is an ornamental tree. Much cultivated at Dehra Dun and 

 Saharanpur and in other parts of Northern India. 



I used to see a solitary tree grown in the Thana Jail garden, 

 in the early eightie's, from seed sent by my friend Mr. W. F. 

 Sinclair, I. C. S., Collector of Colaba, over 25 years ago, from 

 Alibag, Colaba District. He subsequently was Collector of 

 Thana in 1894, and used to highly admire the tree for its beauty 

 and healthy and rapid growth in foreign soil. (K. R. Kirtikar.) 



A middle-sized tree, bark thin, dark-grey. Wood pink, hard, 

 close-grained. Branches very robust, as thick as the little 

 finger. Leaves beneath and inflorescence softly densely woolly, 

 subsessile, narrowly oblanceolate, acuminate, nerves 10-15 pair, 

 strong beneath (Kanjilal). Hooker says the leaves are 6-8 

 by lj-3in., nerves 12-15 pair. Petiole very short, woolly. 

 Flowers dull white, dense, fragrant, Jin. across, in terminal 

 panicles which latter are 3-6in. long and broad ; branches very 

 stout. Calyx-tube short ; lobes ovate, subacute, petals broadly 

 ovate. Fruit ovoid intruded at top, pyriform or globose, 

 baccate, l-ljin. or even 2in. long, yellow or orange when ripe. 

 Seeds 2-5, dark-brown, smooth, sessile. 



Flowers in August to November and December. Fruits in 

 March and April. 



Uses : — Dr. Peokolt finds that the leaves taken in infusion, 

 in the proportion of 30 grams to 240 grams of water, in the 

 dose of a tablespoonful every two hours, produce a good effect 

 in diarrhoea. The tincture of the leaves is employed in indiges- 

 tion (Ph. J. Jan. 30th, 1886.) 



The seeds contain 0'35-0'45 p. c. of fat. Specimens of the fat, prepared by 

 pressing (1), and by extraction with ether (II), and of the fatty acids (III) 

 separated therefrom, had the following characters : — Sp. gr. at 15°C, I, 0*967 ; 

 m. pt. I. 49°, II. 48°C. ; refractometer reading at 45°C, I. 75*5, II. 76 ; acid 

 value, I. 90*5, II. 89*5 ; III. 160 ; Saponification value, I, 1799 ; III. 173 ; Hehner 

 value, I. 92-6, II. 92*2 ; Reichert-Meissl value, I. 54 ; iodine value, I. 487, II. 

 48, III. 58*5. The product obtained by the oxidation of the liquid fatty acids 

 by Hazura's method (perm anganate, in alkaline solution) yielded to ether, 

 dihydroxy stearic acid of m. pt. 2345° C, ; the residue melted at 154°-154'5°C, 

 Archidic and palmitic acids were detected in the solid fatty acids. J. Ch. I., 

 15th February 1911, p. 140. 

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