870 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



N. 0. CONVOLVUIAOEiE. 



830. Erycibe paniciilata, Roxb. h.f.b.l, iv. 180 

 Roxb. 197. 



Vern. : — Urumin (Kol) ; Kari (Santal). Ankole, Sengar 

 bally (K). 



Habitat : — Throughout India. 



A diffuse or subscandent shrub, or an erect tree, 40ft. Bark 

 brown, with large rough corky lenticels. Wood soft, porous, 

 of peculiar structure ; round the central pith radiate in series 

 of wedges of wood tissue ; round these comes a layer of bast 

 tissue ; then a series of separate, round, concentrically arranged 

 masses of wood tissue separated by bast tissue, then more layers 

 of bast and similar masses of wood tissue, gradually getting 

 smaller outwards (Gamble). Branchlets angular. Young shoots 

 and inflorescence densely clothed with rust-coloured tomentum. 

 Leaves 5 by 2in., obovate or obovate-oblong, abruptly acuminate, 

 glabrescent, base attenuate, nerves 5-7 pair, distinct above. 

 Petiole iin. long. Flowers yellowish- white, in elongate narrow 

 terminal panicles, 7 by ljin. Bracts inconspicuous ; pedicels 



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Calyx clothed outside with reddish-brown tomentum 

 and more or less stellate-pubescent. Sepals ^in. Corolla 

 |-|in., petals crisped, tube broadly funnelshaped ; lobes 

 5, bifid, hairy on the back below the division, margins plicate. 

 Anthers with a long curved apiculate connective. Berry 

 iin. diam., when ripe, black, ellipsoid, supported by the 

 rusty-pubescent 5-lobed calyx. 



U se: —l n Chutia Nagpur, the bark is given for cholera 

 (Revd. A. Campbell). 



831. Rivea ornata, Chois, h.f.b.i., iv., p. 183. 



Vern— Phand (Mar.) 



A large spreading shrub. Stems subherbaceous, hardly ever 

 twinning. Leaves 3-6 in. long, usually broader than long, orbi- 

 cular or reniform, abtuse, somewhat emarginate and often api- 

 culate at the apex, rather silky beneath, lobes rounded ; petioles 



