858 IttDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Veru. : — Chhota-lasora, chhota-laslasa (Hind.) ; Chhoto- 

 bohnaari iBeng) ; Mokhatab (Arab.) ; Sugpistan (Pers.) ; Sp.iru- 

 naruvili (Tarn.) ; Chinua-botku (Tel.) ; Tana, tanusi (Burm.); 

 Geedooree (Sind.) ; Vurgoond (Guz.); Bbokar (Dec). 



Habitat: — Western India, from tbe Punjab and Hindustan 

 to Ceylon. 



A middle-sized tree closely resembling C. Myxa. It is tbe 

 C. obliqua of Wight's,' Ic. t. 1378. Innovations fulvous-villous. 

 Leaves alternate, ovate or orbicular, sub-3-nerved, young tomen 

 tose beneath, adult glabrous, entire or nearly so, densely and 

 softly tomentose beneath, with stellate hairs. Basal nerves 3-5. 

 Cystolith cells not conspicuous on surface of leaves. Corymbs 

 divaricate, dichotomous, glabrous. Calyx glabrous without, or 

 scarcely villous on the margin, -J-jin. (at flower- time), tube cam- 

 panulate ; lobes distinct, densely villous within. Corolla-lobes 

 3-jin. Berry lin. ovoid, sub-acute, 1-seeded. 



Both kinds of fruit when dry are shrivelled, and of the color 

 of a dry prune. The pulp of G. obliqua can be separated from 

 the nut, that of C. Myxa cannot ; on sawing through the nut a 

 heavy disagreeable smell is observable. (Dymock). 



Uses: — The fruit is used as an expectorant and astringent. 

 In Sind, it is regarded as demulcent (Stocks). 

 The fruit in its raw state contains a gum used beneficially 

 in gonorrhoea. (T. N. Ghose, in Watt's Dictionary). 



811. G. obliqua, Willd. Var. Wallichii h.f.b.i.. 

 iv. 137. 



Habitat : — Western India, Lahore to Kurg. 



A middle-sized tree, closely resembling C. Myxa, Linn. 



Adult leaves densely stellately fulvous or white-tomentose 

 beneath, calyx glabrescent without below, teeth densely fulvous- 

 villous. 



This is C obliqua, Var B. of all the old collectors, who have 

 mixed it with G. obliqua type. The two are undoubtedly one ; 

 they differ in hairs 6nVy\ ' and" intermWliately hairy examples 

 occur. (Clarke). 



