N. 0. BURIACEiE. 657 



or 3-nate. Leaves glabrous, villous or tomentose, opposite, or 3- 

 nate, whorled, membranous, ovate or obovate-lanceolate, acute or 

 acuminate ; blade 2-4in., petiole i-lin. ; stipules cuspidate, from 

 a broad base, very deciduous. Flowers small, greenish, in 

 shortly peduncled Cymes, l-l|in. . Calyx with 5 teeth. Style 

 glabrous ; stigma 4-5-lobed. Drupe i-lin. diam. ; fleshy, edible, 

 smooth, subglobose or turbinated, with 4 or 5 smooth, broadly 

 hard, 1-seeded stones. 



Use : — It is the Pindu and Pinditaka of Sanskrit writers, who 

 consider the fruit to be medicinal, and describe it as streng- 

 thening, cooling, and an expellant of phlegm and bile. 



The fruit is eaten when ripe, cooked or uncooked, or roasted. 



Another allied species, V. edulis, a native of Madagascar, is 



cultivated in gardens for its edible fruit. 



Contains sugar, gum and a small quantity of tannin, but no cyanogenetic 

 glucoside or alkaloid was found. The dried seeds yield on extraction with 

 ether 14*01 p.c. of a semi-drying oil, with an iodine value of 15*07.— D. Hooper. 

 Annual Report, Indian Museum, Industrial Section, 1909*1910. 



610. Ixora Parviflora, Vahl. h.f.b.l, hi. 142. 



Vern. :— Kotagandhal (Loha janzia, in Chutia Nagpur) (H.) ; 

 Rangan (B.) ; Pete (Kol.) ; Merom met (Santal) ; Tellu, Kurwan 

 (Uriya) ; Disti, kori (Gond.) ; Kurat, lokandi, narkurat, raikura, 

 guavi-lakri, makri che-jhar (Bomb.) ; Kura (Konkan) ; Shulundu 

 kora (Tarn.) ; Korimi pala, korivi pala. putta pala, karipal, 

 kachipadel, tadda pallu (Tel.) ; Gorivi, korgi, bennugorvi (Kan.) 



Habitat : — Western Bengal, Behar, Western, Central and 

 South India. 



A small, evergreen, glabrous tree ; cymes sometimes slightly 

 pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, hard, shining, sessile, or shortly 

 pedicillate petiolate, oblong or ovate-oblong, with a rounded or 

 nearly cordate base, 4-5in. long ; the reticulate veins nearly 

 as prominent as the secondary nerves. Flowers white or pink, 

 scented, in ample, nearly sessile, compound trichotomous cymes. 

 Corolla glabrous, tube Iriin., lobes oblong, filaments short. 

 Style very pubescent ; tip of Corolla ellipsoid in bud. Stigma 

 subcapitate, simple or cleft. Fruit small, didymous. Seeds 

 plano-convex. 



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