946 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



rough, moderately hard ; noheartwood, no annual rings. Leaves 

 1-pinnate, tomentose when young, glabrous afterwards, generally 

 approximate near the ends of branches, l-2ft. Leaflets 7-9, 

 4 J by 2in., obtuse, with a short point, elliptic, entire or crenate, 

 often serrulate, 3-4pair ; petiolule 0-^in Flowers in large, termi- 

 nal, densely tawny- tomentose panicles. Pedicels short, woolly. 

 Calyx on one side more deeply or obtusely bilabiate or irregular- 

 ly lobed half-way down. Corolla floccose, ultimately glabrate, 

 campanulate, white, fringed with pink, tube ljin., mouth 2in. 

 diam., lobes crisped. Anther-cells elliptic ; divaricate at base. 

 Capsule straight, narrowly oblong, slightly compressed, smooth, 

 velvety while young, 8-12 by lj-2in., divided into 4 cells by 

 the 4-ridged septum, which latter, when cut horizontally, looks 

 cross-shaped. Seeds li by lin. 



Use : — The natives extract from the wood a thick fluid like 

 tar, which they use in skin diseases. 



905. Stei'eospermum eheloniodes, DeC, h.f.b.i., 

 iv. 382. 



Syn : — Bignonia cheloniodes, Linn. /. Roxb. 493. 



Vern, : — Pader, padri, parral (Hind.); Pandair (Lohardaga) ; 

 Pandri (Khar.var) ; Dharmar, atkapali (Beng.) ; Kandior, pondair 

 (Kol.) ; Parolli (Assam) ; Pareya-auwal (Cachar) ; Bolzel (Garo) ; 

 Parari (Nepal) ; Syngyen (Lepcha) ; Sirpang (Michi) ; Pamphunia 

 (Uriya) ; Tsaintsa (Magh) ; Taitu (Berar) ; Padurni (Bhil) ; Padal, 

 padri, paral, kirsel, tuatuka (Bomb.); Kirsel, tuatuka, padul, 

 padvale, padhri (Mar.) ; Padri, pon-padira, pathiri, vela-padri, 

 appu, Kana Virukham (Tarn.) ; Tagada, thagu, kala goru, moka- 

 yapa, pisul (Tl.); Kalihiitrii, kall-udi, bondh-vala, bile padri, 

 maradakarji, puruli mara (Kan.) ; Nai-udi, mallali (Coorg) ; 

 Patirimaram (Mai). 



Hahitat: — Through moister India; from the Terai of Oudh 

 and Assam to Ceylon. 



A large deciduous tree, 30— 60ft., nearly glabrous, except the 

 flowers. Bark brown varying in thickness up to |in., outer bark 

 corky. Wood hard, grey, no heartwood Leaves 1-pinnate, 

 12-I8in., leaflets imparipinnate, 3-5 pair, elliptic caudate acumi- 

 nate, blade 4-6in., petiole i-|-in. long. Panicle branches slender, 



