548 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



elliptic or ovate, sometimes obovate-oblong ; blade 5-9, petiole 

 |-|in. long, nearly opposite, the uppermost often alternate ; 

 1-2 glands near base of midrib ; underside when full-grown, as 

 a rule, soft tomentose, nearly glabrous, secondary nerves. 10-20 

 pair. Flowers bisexual, dull yellow, in erect terminal panicles, 

 the lower branches in the axils of leaves. Calyx-limb, a shallow 

 cup, hairy within, segments 5, broad, ovate, acute. Fruit 

 l^-2in. long, with 5 coriaceous brown wings, f-lin. broad, 

 and marked with numerous horizontal lines running from the 

 axils to the edges, which are thin and irregularly crenulate. 



Use : — A docoction of the bark is taken internally in atonic 

 diarrhoea, and locally as an application to weak indolent ulcers. 

 (Ph. Ind.). 



496. T. paniculata, Roth, h.f.b.l, ii. 448. 

 Syn. : — Pentaptera Paniculata, Roxb. 384. 



Vern. : — Kinjal (Bomb.) ; Pe-karakai (Tarn.); Neemeeri (Tel.) ; 

 Honal, huluva, hulve, hunab (Kan.). 



Habitat : —Malabar, lower hills, from Bombay to Cochin ; 

 Nilghiri and Kurg Mountains. 



A very large deciduous tree. Bark Jin. thick, dark-brown, 

 peeling off: in flat flakes. Wood grey, with darker heart-wood, 

 very hard, new growths rusty-tomentose. Leaves 4-7in., 

 subopposite, upper alternate, base cordate, two glands generally 

 present near the base of the midrib beneath. Petiole J-J in. 

 long, rusty-pubescent, sessile, close set in large spreading 

 panicles, the front edge ovary growing out into a wing which 

 is f-lin. broad. 



Use : — The country people use the juice of the fresh flowers 

 rubbed with Parwel root (Cocculus Villosus) as a remedy in 

 cholera, and in poisoning with opium, 4 tolas of the juice with 

 an equal quantity of guava bark juice is given frequently. In 

 parotitis, the juice with ghi and Saindhav (rock salt) is applied. 

 In cholera, about 4 tolas of the juice with an equal quantity of 

 Parwel root is given every hour (Dymock). 



497. Calycopteris floribunda, Lam. h.f.b.l ii. 449. 

 Vern. :— Bandi-murududu (Teh); Baguli, Ukshi (Mar.); 



Kokoranj (Hind.) ; Marsada, Baguli (Can.) 



