856 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



branches. Leaves membranous l-2Jin., linear-oblong, shortly 

 petioled, acute at both ends, glabrous but slightly ciliate 

 on the margin. Flowers in racemes very numerous, bright 

 light-blue. Pedicels rather long, curved, glabrous or with 

 numerous short glandular hairs. " Inflorescence " says C. B. 

 Clarke, " patently viscidly hairy, or (in Ceylon form) nearly 

 glabrous." Racemes l-2in,, bracts i-iin,, narrower. Cymes 

 racemose, bracts leafy ; sepals about Jin., oblong-linear, 

 glabrous or with copious glandular hairs. Corolla nearly Jin. 

 diam , lobes Jin. ovate, acute. Stamens exserted, filaments 

 dilated at base or nearly filiform. Styles long, spreading. 

 Capsule ovoid, oblong, shorter than the persistent enclosing 

 striate (Trimen), Seeds many, minute, oblong. 



Use : — The leaves, beaten into a pulp and applied as a 

 poultice, are considered to have a cleaning and healing effect 

 on neglected and callous ulcers. They apparently possess some 

 antiseptic property. 



N. 0. BOARGINE.B. 



809. Cordia Myxa, Linn., h.f.b.l, iv. 136 ; 

 Roxb. 198. 



Vern, :— Lasora, bhokar (Gondi and Hind.); Dabk (Arab.) ; 

 Sugpistan (Pers.); Bohari, buhul, boho-dari (Beng.); Ninut 

 (Lepcha) ; Vidi (Tarn.) ; Thanet (Burm.); Bhokar (Mar.). 



Habitat : — Throughout India. 



A moderate-sized, deciduous, tree, 40 or 50 ft. high and 

 usually, with a crooked trunk. Bark ^ to fin. thick, grey or 

 brown rough, with shallow longitudinal wrinkles and furrows. 

 Wood greyish brown, moderately hard, no heartwood. Brand i- 

 lets glabrous; young shoots silvery grey. Leaves alternate, 

 thinly coriaceous l-5in. diam., entire or slightly obscurely hairy 

 beneath when young, dentate from slightly scabrous to glabrous 

 above, variable in shape from elliptic-lanceolate to broad-ovate, 

 often with a rounded or cordate base, basal nerves 3, rarely 5, 

 the first pair sub-basal. Petiole l-2in. long. Flowers small, 

 male and hermaphrodite, often on the same tree, mostly penta- 

 merous, white, in loose ebracteate corymbose cymes* 2-8in. ; 



