N. O. BIGNONIACEJE. 945 



Kanseri (Meywar) ; Mersingh, bhil (C. P.) ; Mersinge, kanseri, 

 mendal manchingi (Bom.) ; Mersingi (Mar.) ; Karanjelo (Kurku,; 

 Gudmurki (Kan); Kadatathie (Tarn.); Udda, wodi (Tel.) Nir 

 pongilain (Malay.) 



Habitat :— Bundelkhand ; dry hills in C. India. Deccan 

 Peninsula ; Mysore and Vellyengry Hills ; Belgaum. 



A middle-sized, deciduous tree, 20-50ft., more or less grey, 

 pubescent, or shortly villous. Bark J-in. or less thick, bluish- 

 grey, exfoliating in irregular woody scales. Wood whitish, 

 hard, close-even-grained, shining, glossy ; no heart- wood. Leaves 

 imparipinnate, 3-6in. Leaflets 5-7 by J-lJin., pubescent or 

 glabrous, obovate or round-elliptic, rarely with a small obtuse 

 point. Petiole Jin. long. Petiolule 0, rarely J-Jin. Flowers white, 

 in fewfid corymbs, mostly 1-3-fid, subsessile. Pedicels Jin. Calyx 

 i-fin. of the expanded flowers, softly grey, pubescent. Corolla- 

 tube slender below, 1-1 Jin. long. Anthers included. Capsule 

 flat, much curved, 10-18 by fin. compressed, glabrous. Seeds 

 about lin. long by £in. wide, rectangular, winged at both ends. 

 Use : — A decoction of the fruit is used medicinally (Watt). 

 It has the reputation of being used to procure abortion, and 

 the bark is, it is stated, used as a fish poison. 



Dr. Lyon, Chemical Analyser to the Government of Bombay, 

 found, however, no ill effects to follow the administration of a 

 considerable quantity of a decoction of the bark to a small dog. 

 (Med. Juris, for India, p. 216.) It is possible that the woody 

 capsules, which are about a foot in length by § of an inch in 

 diameter, and somewhat curved, may be used as abortion sticks. 

 (Pharmacographia Indica, III. 24). 



904. Heterophragma Roxburghii, h.f.b.i., iv. 

 381. 



Syn. : — Bignonia quadrilocularis, Roxb. 494. 



Vern. : — Pullung, warras (Bomb.) ; Baro-kala-goru (Tarn.) ; 

 Bond-gu (Tel.) ; Adwinuggi (Kan). 



Habitat — W. Deccan Peninsula, from Bombay southwards; 

 Central India ; and the Godavery Forests. 



A large tree ; innovations woolly. Bark Jin. thick, grey or 

 dark-brown, exfoliating in small angular scales. Wood grey, 

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