N. o. rubiace^:. 647 



Habitat : — Khasia Mountains and Assam. Mountains of the 

 Western Peninsula. 



A suffrutescent herb, erect, glabrous, or stem petiole cymes 

 and leaf-nerves beneath puberulous. Stipules small. Leaves 

 2-5 by 1-2 Jin., very thin, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, long- 

 acuminate, narrowed into the petiole. Cymes l-3in. diam., flat- 

 topped, glabrous or pubescent. Cyme-branches sub-umbellate, 

 very spreading. Bracts absent. Calyx-teeth very short. Corolla 

 white, glabrous round at the tip, in bud fin., mouth not dilated ; 

 lobes very short, obtuse, keeled at the back. Capsule -§— §-in. 

 diam., pedicelled. Seeds many, minute, angled. 



Use : — The root is intensely bitter and may be used as a tonic 

 Popularly believed to be a remedy against the bites of venomous 

 snakes, mad dogs, &c. 



599. Musscenda frondosa, Linn, h.f.b.l, hi. 89 ; 

 Roxb. 187. 



Vern. : — Asari (Nepal); Tumberh (Lepcha) ; Bhuta-kesa, 

 Laudachuta (Bomb.) ; Shivardole (Mar.) ; Bebina (H.) ; Vellaellay 

 (Tam.). 



Habitat : — Tropical Himalaya, from Nepal eastward. Assam, 

 Khasia Mountains, and the Western Peninsula, from the Concan 

 southwards. 



A large shrub, tomentose, hirsute or nearly glabrous. Bark 

 grey, smooth, but granular. Wood white, soft, but moderately 

 hard, close and even-grained. Leaves sessile or petioled, ellip- 

 tic oblong or ovate, acuminate ; stipules long or short, often 

 2-fid. Cymes contracted or open, softly silkily-tomentose ; 

 bracts and caducous calyx-lobes elongate-lanceolate, much larger 

 than the ovary, twice the length of the ovary or longer. Corolla 

 orange- yellow, pubescent, silky or hirsute; lobes broadly ovate, 

 acute or acuminate. Berries obovoid, glabrous ; areole broad. 



Uses : — In the Concan, \ a tola of the root is given with cow's 

 urine in white leprosy. 



In jaundice, 2 tolas of the white leaves are given in milk 

 (Pymock). 



