656 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Uses : — The bark is used by the Santals in fever (Revd. A. 

 Campbell). Watt, ii. 129. 



608. C. parviflorum, Lamk, in. 136 ;. Roxb. 



176. 



Syn. : — Webera tetrandra, Willd. 



Vern : — Kirni (Bomb.; ; Karai-cheddi (Tarn.) ; Tsjeron kara 

 (Mai.) ; Balusu cliettu, balsu (Tel.) 



Habitat : — Western Peninsula, from the Concan south- 

 wards. 



A rigid, glabrous shrub ; branches stiff, spreading ; spines 

 numerous, axillary or subaxillary, straight, stout and sharp. 

 Wood hard, close-grained. Spines l-2in. long. Leaves glabrous, 

 crowded on shortened lateral shoots, small, ovate, obovate or 

 orbicular-obtuse, f-lin. long, rather coriaceous, dirty-green when 

 dry, opaque, base cuneate ; stipules small, with long cuspidate 

 points ; petiole slender, xViin. long. Cymes i-f in. Peduncle 

 and pedicel slender, short or long. Flowers 4-merous, yellow- 

 ish, in many-flowered peduncled cymes. Calyx-teeth minute. 

 Corolla-tube broad, campanulate, T oin. long, a little longer than 

 lobes, " subglobose lobes obovate," says J. D. Hooker. Style 

 glabrous, stigma capitate, tuberculate, " globose," says Brandis. 

 Fruit yellow, edible, subquadrate or obcordate subdidymous, 

 Jin. diam., enclosing 2 hard stones. "Spines sometimes three- 

 fold " (Roxburgh). 



Use : — A decoction of the edible leaves, as well as the root 

 of this plant, is prescribed in certain stages of flux, and the last 

 is supposed to have anthelmintic qualities, though neither have 

 much sensible taste or smell (Ainslie, Mat. Med. ii. 63). 



609. Vangueria Spinosa, Roxb. h.f.b.l, hi. 136. 

 Roxb. 180. 



Sans. : — Pindu, Pinditaka. 



Vern. : — Alu (Mar.). 



Habitat : — From Northern Bengal to Canara. Common in 

 the Ghats, in Bombay and throughout the Konkans, Khandesh, 

 Bengal, Tenasserim and Burma, 



A small handsome tree, or large bush, thorny. Spines simple 



