648 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



600. Randia uliginosa, Dc. h.f.b.i., hi. 110. 



Syn, : — Posoqueria Uliginosa, Roxb. 239. 



Vern.: — Pendari (Bomb.) ; Pindalu, panar, paniah, katul, 

 pindar, bharani (H.) ; PiraloiB.); Panelra, cindra, telp-hetru, 

 phetra, (Mar. J ; Wagata (Tarn.) ; Nalaika, devatamalle, ualla- 

 kakasi, guaku (Tel.) ; Kare, pendri, pandri (Kan). 



Habitat : — Eastern, Central and Southern India ; not common 



northwards, Sikkim and Assam. 



A small, armed, rigid, glabrous, deciduous tree. Bark fin. 

 thick, reddish-brown, exfoliating in thin flakes. Wood whitish- 

 grey close-grained, hard ; no heartwood. Branches quadran- 

 gular, usually bearing short, terete, decussate branchlets, with 

 several pair of approximate leaves and above them 2-4 strong, 

 straight, sharp, decussate thorns. Leaves glabrous and shining 

 above, often pubescent beneath, obovate from a cuneate base ; 

 blade 3-6in. long; petiole Jin. long. Stipules triangular. 

 Flowers solitary, white, dimorphic, either large and sessile, or 

 small and petioled, scented. The large and sessile flowers 

 often have Corolla 2in. diam., 2 separate stigmas, and the 

 tube longer than the free portion of the Calyx. The small 

 pedicillate flowers have a short Corolla-tube and a clavate 

 stigma marked with spiral lines. Calyx-lobes short. Corolla- 

 tube glabrous outside. Fruit, when ripe, yellow, edible, with 

 a hard pulp, those produced by the large sessile flowers are 

 ellipsoid, 2in. long, while those of the smaller peduncled flowers 

 are of half that size. Seeds compressed, smooth, closely packed 

 in pulp. 



Uses :— The unripe fruit roasted in wood ashes is used as a 

 remedy in diarrhoea and dysentery, the central portion consisting 

 of the stone and seeds being rejected ; it is astringent (Dymock). 

 The root, boiled in ghi, is sometimes given in similar cases. 



601. R. dumetorum, Lamk. h.f.b.i., hi. 110. 



Syn. : — Posoqueria dumetorum, P. nutans, P. longispina and 

 P. floribunda, Roxb. 239-241. 



Sans. : — Madana. 



