x. o. boaroine.t:. 801 



814. 0. Maeteodii Hook. f. and Th. h.f.b.i., iv. 

 139. 



Vern: — Dhengan, clbaraan, dhaian, dewan, dahi, dahipalas, 

 diligan (H.) ; Reuta porponda (Kol.); Bharwar, belaunan 

 (Karwar) ; Jugia (Santal.) ; Dhaiwan, dhaman, daiwas, dhaim, 

 bboti (Mar.) ; Bot (Gond.) ; Lauri Kassamar (Kurku) ; Gondu 

 (Raj.); Godela (Merwara) ; Gadru (Ajmere). 



Habitat : — Central India, the Concan and Bel gaum. 



A middle-sized, deciduous tree, attaining 40ft. Bark thick 

 grey, soft, corky. Heartwood light-brown, beautifully mottled 

 with dark veins, even-grained, very hard. Branchlets, underside of 

 leaves, inflorescence and Calyx clothed with dense grey or tawny 

 [omentum of stellate hair. Leaves alternate, sometimes sub- 

 opposite, cordate, firm and hard when full-grown, rough, with 

 raised groups of cystolith-cells. Blade 5-7in. ; petiole 2-3in. 

 long, the basal as well as secondary and transverse tertiary nerves 

 prominent on the underside of mature leaves. Flowers white, 

 middle-sized, nearly sessile, in lateral, compact, shortly pedun- 

 culate or nearly sessile cymes. Calyx turbinate, |-in. long. 

 Corolla-lobes spathulate, spreading or reflected. Male flowers 

 with rudimentary ovary, but without style or stigma. Stamens, 

 usually 6, exserted, filaments hairy at. the base, anthers of male 

 flowers large. Drupe ^-fin. l° n g> ovoid acute ; not edible. 



Use : — :The Santals use the bark medicinally in jaundice. 

 (Revd. A. Campbell). 



815. Eliretia obtusifolia, Hochst. h.f.b.i., iv. 

 142. 



Vern. : — Chamror (Punjab plains); Gin. (Ravi); Chamar 

 (Bias.); Sakkur, dhaman, saggar, gangar, bar! kander (Salt 

 Range); Chambal (JSind Sagar Doab). (Pb.). Maraghune, 

 kharawune, khabarra. tutiri, lor (Pushtu). 



Habitat : — Scinde, Punjab ; in the Salt Range. Rajputana, 

 Ajmere, Merwara. 



A small shrub Bark grey. Wood greyish or brownish-white, 

 moderately hard, even-grained. Branches grey. Leaves rough, 

 quite entire and hairy, obovate or spathulate, ovate-oblong, 



