796 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



757. T. Heyneana, Wall, h.f.b.l, hi. 646. 



Vern.— Naglkud, pandra-kura (Mar) ; Bili kodsaloo ; nagar- 

 kooda ; halmeti ; maddarsa (Kan). 



Habitat — Western Ghats, from the Concan southwards, 

 common. 



A small glabrous tree. Bark " grey, rough, with much milky 

 juice," says Brand is, whereas Gamble says that the bark is 

 smooth grey. J. D. Hooker says the bark is pale smooth 

 and grooved when dry. Wood light-grey, or white. Branches 

 very stout. Leaves 3-8 by 1-2-Jin., coriaceous linear- oblong 

 or linear-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, dark -brown and shin- 

 ing above when dry, paler beneath; midrib and nerves beneath 

 stout. Nerves 12-16 pair, arched. Petiole i-Jin., base dilated. 

 Peduncle l-2in.; pedicels f-lin.; bracts obsolete. Cymes many- 

 fid. Calyx very coriaceous ; lobes hardly ovate, obtuse, crisped. 

 Ovary very short; style filiform, top obconic ; stigma forked. 

 Follicles yellow, smooth, very variable, J-lin. long, sessile, 

 slightly recurved, shortly banana-shaped (K.R.K.), not keeled or 

 ribbed, beaked or not. Seeds 2 or more, iin. long. 



Uses.~-The authors of the Pharmacographia Indica, vol. IT, 

 p. 413, write that this species is considered to have similar 

 properties to those of T. coronaria, Br., and is known by the 

 same vernacular name. In Puddukota, the flowers are used in 

 inflammation of the cornea. 



758. T. Coronaria, Br. h.f.b.l, hi. 646. Roxb. 

 249. 



Sans. : — Tagara ; Naudivriksha (Ainslie). " Firhi-tugar the 

 Hindoo name of the single flowered, and Biira-tuyar of the 

 double flowered." (Roxb). 



Vern :— Sagar; Tagar (Mar. and Guz.) ; Grandi tagarapu, 

 Nandi-vardana (Tel.) ; Chandni, Taggai, Taggar (H.); Tagar 

 (B.) ; Asuru (Nepal;; Krun (Lepcha) ; Nagui-kada (Kan.). 



Habitat. — Much cultivated in gardens throughout India, from 

 the N. W. Himalaya in Kumaon, Eastward and Southward, 

 Ceylon. 



