760 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



the Calyxlimb, usually 1-seeded, black when ripe, embryo curved , 

 oxile (Kanjilal). 



Use : — The bark is considered tonic. It is also used in. oph- 

 thalmia (Dr. Stewart). 



731. S. racemosa, Boxb. h.f.b.i., hi. 576, Roxb. 

 415. 



Sans. : — Lodhra. 



Vern. : — Lodh (H. and B.) ; Chamlani (Nepal) ; Palyok 

 iLepcha); Kaiday (Mechi^ ; Singyan (Bhutia). 



Habitat : — Throughout North-East India, common from the 

 Terai of Kumaun to Assam ; common throughout Chota Nag- 

 pore. 



A small evergreen tree. Bark soft, Branehlets soon glab 

 reus. Leaves glabrous, coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, obscurely 

 crenate. Blade 4-6in. Petiole J-J-in. Flowers yellow, fragrant, 

 in simple hairy axillary, more or less lax racemes ; pedicels as 

 long as Calyx-tube, which is glabrous; lobes rounded, equalling 

 the tube, slightly pubescent and with ciliate edges. Stamens 

 about 100-115. Disk glabrous. Corolla 3 times longer than 

 calyx. Fruit cylindric, nearly Jin. long, smooth, 1-3 celled. 

 Calyxrim nearly as wide as the fruit, with erect teeth. Ovary 

 3 celled, hairy. Embryo straight. 



Uses : — In Hindoo medicine, the bark is described as cooling, 

 astringent, and useful in bowel complaints, eye diseases, ulcers, 

 &c. A decoction is used as a gargle for giving firmness to 

 bleeding and spongy gums (Dutt). 



It is often used in Bombay in the preparation of plasters 

 •Up.); it is supposed to promote the maturation or resolution 

 of stagnant tumors (Dymock). 



Drs. Charles and K. L. Dey, recommend the bark in 20 

 grain doses mixed with sugar, as a remedial agent in monor- 

 rhagia due to relaxation of the uterine tissue; it should be 

 given two or three times a day, for three or four days. Dr. K. 

 L. Dey considers that the drug has a special action upon 

 relaxed mucous membranes. 



