798 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Sans : — Bhadravalli, bhadramunja, visalyakrit. 



Vern : — Ramsar ; Chamari-ka-vel (H.) ; Hapar mali ; Ramsar 

 (B.) ; Dudhi (Kumaon), Pulta podara yarala, pala malle tivva 

 (Tel.). 



Habitat : — The Himalayan tract, from the Ganges eastward, 

 Central and South India. (Commonly cultivated in India). 



Tall, twining shrubs, with ash colored bark and cymose 

 flowers, Leaves, elliptic or oblong or linear-oblong, acumi- 

 nate, pellucid, dotted, 1^-4 by f-ljin., glabrous or pubscent. 

 Petiole f-fin. The axils of the petioles glandular. Cymes 

 5-10-fid., sessile or peduncled, dichotomous much shorter than 

 the leaves. Flowers pure white fin., diam., fragrant. Sepals 

 ovate oblong obtuse equally ing the short corolla- tube. Corolla- 

 limb spreading. Disk ciliate. Filaments line or, villous. 

 Anthers woolly. Style pubescent, Follicles 6 by 2 in., straight 

 tapering from a rounded base to a stiff point, splitting into 4 

 valves when dry (Roxb). Pericarp thick, fibrous. Seed lin., 

 ovate, beaked, with a tuft of pairs at hilum, Coma very long, 

 silvery white. 



Uses : — The milky juice is employed as an application to 

 wounds and old sores in the U. P. (Atkinson;. 



The milky juice is a mild irritant. Applied to old sores and 

 sinuses, it excites some degree of inflammation in them and 

 thereby expedites the process of healing (Assist-Surg. R. C. 

 Gupta, in Watt's Dictionary). 



760. Wrightia tinctoria, Br. h.f.b.i., hi. 653. 



Syn. : — Nerium tinctorinm, Roxb. 243. 



Sans. : — Hayamaraka. 



Vern. : — Indarjou (H. and B.); Kala kado, kala-kuda, kuda, 

 khirni, bhiirkuri (Bomb.); Pala, veypale, pila, pila (Tarn.); 

 Tedlapal, tellapal, amkudu (Tel.) ; Kodmurki, Kuda, beppalli, 

 pale (Kan.) ; Kota kappala (Malay.). 



Habitat — Central India, throughout the Western Peninsula. 

 Raj pu tan a. Thrives on Mount Abu, Burma. 



