758 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



l-2in. diam., yellow and sweet when ripe, subglobose, glandular 

 or rusty, usually 4-8-seeded ; seeds embedded in a viscid pulp. 

 Fruiting Calyx persistent, fin across, lobes patent, villous within. 



Unes : —The fruit and the bark possess astringent properties. 

 The juice of the unripe fruit makes a good application to fresh 

 wounds. It is full of tannin, and is therefore a useful domestic 

 astringent, so plentiful as to be at the door of even the poorest 

 hut. An oil extracted from the seeds is also used in native 

 medicine, in dysentery and diarrhoea with success. Bark is 

 used in intermittent fevers (Honnigberger). 



It is used in dysentery and diarrhoea with success. The 

 infusion of the fruit is used as a gargle in aphthae and sore- 

 throat (Kanai Lai De Bahadur). 



The seeds are preserved by the country people, and given 

 as an astringent in diarrhoea (Dymock). 



It is officinal in the Pharmacopoeia of India. 



729. D. melanoxylon, Roxb., h.f b.i., hi. 564 ; 

 Roxb. 412. 



Syn. :— D. Wightiana, Wall 



Sans. : — Kakundoo. 



Vern. : — Tendu, kendu, abnii ('Hind.) ; Kend, kyou (Beng.) ; 

 Tumri, tummer, tumki (Gond.) ; Tumbi, tumbali (Tain.) ; Tumi, 

 tumki (Tel.). Tamrug (Guz). 



Habitat : — Deccan Peninsula. 



Alarge, or moderate sized, deciduous tree, attaining 50ft., and 

 6ft. in girth, greyish black, cleft into small rectangular 

 plates, showing the black inner bark in the clefts. The bark 

 shows alternate layers of brown and black, so that as it wears 

 the surface shows partly of either colour. Wood hard, reddish- 

 brown, with an irregular black heartwood. Young parts covered 

 with grey or rusty tomentum. Leaves alternate and subopposite, 

 says Kanjilal; mostly opposite, says Brandis ; thickly coriaceous, 

 hairy or glabrous • on the underside when full grown, elliptic 

 or ovate ; blade 3-12in., petiole |in., secondary nerves 6-10 pair, 

 as well as the reticulate tertiary nerves raised on the upperside. 



