940 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



(Tb.) ; Tattuniia (C. P.) ; Tantun, tetu, ulu, karkath, saunavanga, 

 achi, vanga-maram (Tarn.) ; Pamania, pampana, dnndillam, 

 dondlup, Mandukaparnamu, Sukanasamu, pampenachettu, 

 (Tel.); Tetu, Anamungu, dundukara, bagi mokka, alaugi-mara. 

 (Kan.) ; Palakapaiyana, aralu, veluttapatiri — maram, arantal 

 (Mai). Ginsen, Dak-da wa, sicat (Palamow). 



Habitat : — Common throughout India, from the Himalaya 

 to Ceylon ; not in the Western drier area, but in the Terai, 

 west to the Chenab. 



Usually a small deciduous tree, but attaining sometimes 

 30-40ft. Branched at the top. Bark Jin. thick, yellowish-grey, 

 rather smooth, soft, with numerous large corky lenticels ; yields 

 rather a green juice when cut. Wood yellowish-white, soft, 

 no heartwood (Gamble). Leaves extremely large, 3-5ft., trian- 

 gular in outline, three-or quadri-pinnate with opposite pinnse ; 

 rachis very stout, cylindric, much swollen at the branches, 

 rough, with corky lenticels, primary pinnae about 5 pair. Leaf- 

 lets numerous, shortly petiolate, 2f-4iin., broadly oval or nearly 

 rotundate at base, suddenly and shortly cordate, acuminate, 

 obtuse, glabrous, paler beneath. Flowers with an unpleasant 

 smell, numerous, dull-pale, pinkish-yellow inside, reddish-purple 

 outside, on very stout, glabrous, spreading pedicels, 2|-3in., long 

 and articulated at base, arranged in very large erect racemes, 

 l-2ft. or more long, peduncle very short, branch-like, bracts 

 fused with the peduncle. Calyx If in., oblong-campanulate, 

 glabrous. Corolla-tube 2|in., mouth about .4in., lobes much 

 crumpled in bud, thickly covered on both sides with papillose 

 hairs. Filaments cottony at base, disk fleshy, style 2Jin , stigma 

 £in. wide with 2 semicircular plates. Ovary oblong, somewhat 

 compressed, glabrous. Capsule 2-2Jft. or even more by 3J-4in., 

 wide, long, flat, swordlike, acute, tapering at both ends, 

 dehiscenting at the edges; semi-woody, thin flat septum. Seeds 

 very numerous, oval, wing extending all round except at base, 

 2 Jin. diam (Trimen). (C.B.Clarke). 



Parts used : — The bark and seeds. 



Uses : — In Hindu medicine, " root- bark considered astrin- 

 gent, tonic, and useful in diarrhoea and dysentery. Tender fruits 

 are described as grateful, carminative and stomachic." 



