558 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



507. B. acutangula, Gaertn. h.f.b.i., ii. 508; 

 Roxb. 440. 



Habitat: — Very common, from the Himalaya throughout 

 India ; no tree is more plentiful in the plains of Bengal. 



Vern. :— Hijgal, samundar-phal, panniari, iiigar (EL) ; Hijal 

 samandar (B.); Kinjolo (Uriya) ; Hindol (Ass.); Ijar (Monghyr) 

 Hinjal (Santal) ; Saprung (Kol.) ; Batta, kurpa, kadamic (Tel.) 

 Hole kanva (Kan.) ; Ingar, ijal, samundar-phal, kana-pachethi 

 (Bomb.) ; Piwar, newar, tivvar, datte-phal (Mar.); Samudra phula 

 (Cutch) ; Niwar (Concan) ; Sjeria-samstravadi (Mai.) 



A middle-sized, evergreen, glabrous tree. Bark fin. thick, 

 dark-brown, rough. Wood white, shining, soft, even-grained. 

 Leaves obovate or oblanceolate, minutely denticulate ; blade 

 2-5in-long, narrowed into petiole, -§-iin. long. Flowers red, |-in. 

 across, in long, slender, pendulous racemes 6-15in. long. Calyx- 

 segments rounded, ciliate. Ovary 2-celled. Fruit oblong, bluntly 

 quadragular, 1^-1 Jin. long, crowned by the persistent calyx lobes. 



Uses. — The root is bitter and supposed to be similar to Cin- 

 chona in its properties. It is also held to be cooling and aperi- 

 ent. The seeds are very warm and dry, used as an aromatic in 

 colic and in parturition, also in ophthalmia (Watt). Consid- 

 ered by the natives of Bombay to be warm and stimulating and 

 emetic, often prescribed alone or in combination with other 

 medicines as an external application in colds. A few grains 

 often given as an emetic to children suffering from catarrh, and 

 seldom fail to induce vomiting (Dymock). The kernels pow- 

 dered and prepared with sago and butter are said to be used in 

 diarrhoea (Watt). The juice of the leaves is given in dirrahoea. 

 Tne powdered seeds are used as snuff in headache (U. C. Dutt.) 

 The fruit rubbed in water is administered as an emetic (Lisboa). 



508. Careya arborea, Roxb., h.f.b.i,, ii. 511, 

 Roxb., 447. 



Sans. — Kumbhi. 



Vern. — Kumbi, vakamba, kumbh, (H. and Pb.) ; Kumbha, 

 kumbhasala, kembya, vakumbha (Mar.) ; Gummar (Gond.j ; 



