N. 0. AP0CYNACE.E 791 



Lasanulaasfirul-murr (Arab.) ; Zabane-kunjaskhe-talkh (Pers.) ; 

 Kulappalai-virai, veppalei (Tarn.); Amkuduviitum (Tel.) ; Kood- 

 saloo, Korchu (Kan). Letonkgyi (Burm.). The seeds are called 

 Kadwa-indarjow (Hind, and Bomb.) ; Tita-indarjab (Beng.) ; 



Habitat: — Tropical Himalaya, from the Chenab westwards 

 and throughout the drier forests of India to Travancore. 



A small, deciduous tree, glabrous, pubescent or tomentose. 

 Bark £in. thick, brown, rough, exfoliating in irregular flakes. 

 Wood white, soft, even-grained. Leaves nearly sessile, 6-12 

 by l|-5in. elliptic or ovate-oblong, obtusely acuminate, sub- 

 coriaceous ; secondary nerves 10-16 pairs, strong, arched ; 

 petiole 0-iin. Flowers white or cream-coloured, slightly 

 scented, l-ljin. across, puberulous, in terminal corymbose 

 cymes which are 3-6in diam. J. D. Hooker says, " the flowers 

 are quite inodorous." Calyx deeply 5-partite, lobes small, lan- 

 ceolate acuminate, with glands inside at their base. Corolla- 

 tube i-|in. long, slender, cylindrical, swollen at the base round 

 the anthers, throat contracted, naked ; lobes as long as the tube, 

 oblong, spreading, everlapping to the left. Anthers subsessile, 

 inserted near the base of the Coralla-tube. Cells rounded at the 

 base. Carpels 2, distinct ; ovules numerous ; style short, filiform ; 

 stigma oblong. Fruit of 2 distinct, divaricate follicles, 8-16 by 

 $-§in., spreading and incurved, smooth, usually with white 

 specks. Seeds numerous, Jin. long, narrowly linear-oblong, 

 glabrous. Coma 2in., silky, brownish grey, lj-2in. long. 



" Sir D. Brandis remarks that in Peninsula specimens the 

 style is much longer than in those of Northern India, and the 

 anthers are attached to the middle of the corolla tube instead 

 of at the base." (Duthie;. 



Uses : — Kurchi bark is medicinally used as a tonic and 

 febrifuge ; but it is chiefly esteemed for its antidysenteric 

 properties. That it is always a sure remedy for dysenteric 

 affections, has been borne out by the statements of many 

 medical practitioners, both Native and European. Sub-Assist- 

 ant-Surgeon A. C. Kastagiri publishes a case in the Indian 

 Medical Gazette, vol. I, p. 352, and says that he treated a child, 

 15 months old suffering from dysentery, with the decoction 



