N. 0. B0ARGINE.E. 857 



male larger, laxer, terminal, and on short lateral branches. But 

 very near, globose. Calyx -§-§-in. at flower time, soon much 

 accrescent, tubular campanulate, lobes very short. Corolla- 

 tube xVa' 11 -* * UDe Hrtir^ within. Stamens exserted, filaments 

 hairy below. Stigmas with long linear lobes. Fruit drupe, 

 2 I'm. long ; when ripe yellowish brown, pink or nearly black, 

 shining, but minutely rugose ; endccarp rugose, very hard 

 in a sweetish viscid, but translucent pulp, edible. Brand is 

 says the pulp is transparent, but it is not quite so. C„ B. Clarke 

 calls the fruit a berry, yellow or pinkish, nearly always 1-seeded. 

 Kanjilal says the Drupe is yellow, and glossy when ripe. The 

 fruiting Calyx is fin. diam., wide funnel-shaped, more or less 

 distinctly striated longitudinally (Sebestin). 



Uses : — According to Sanskrit writers, the bark is useful in 

 calculous affections, strangury and catarrh, The ripe fruits 

 are sweet, cooling and demulcent (U. C. Dutt). 



The fruits were, in European practice, in considerable repute 

 as an emollient and demulcent, especially in affections of the 

 lungs and genito-urinary organs, but now have fallen into 

 disuse. In doses of from ten to twelve drachms the pulp acts 

 as a laxative. The bark, according to Horsfield (Asiat. Journ , 

 1819), is one of the chief remedies of the Javanese, who employ 

 it in fevers, &c. It is, apparently, a mild tonic (Ph. Ind.). 



Teeth are rubbed with the bark to strengthen them. Pickles 

 are prepared from the fruit. The bark contains a large amount 

 of tannic acid (B. D. Basu). 



The kernels are a good remedy in ringworm. The leaves 

 are useful as an application to ulcers and in headache (Baden - 

 Powell). 



The juice of the bark, along with cocoanut oil, is given in 

 gripes. The bark and also the unripe fruit are used as a mild 

 tonic (Atkinson). The Santals use a powder of the bark as an 

 external application in prurigo (Revd. A. Campbell). 



810. G. obliqua, Willd. h.f.b.l, iv. 137. 



Syn. :— C. latifolia, Rorh. 189. 

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