990 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



in the W. Himalaya ; from Kashmir to Assam ; abundant 

 in Bengal plains, (?) Deccan Peninsula. 



An erect shrub, 4-8 ft. high, with straggling branches. 

 Branches, leafstalks and inflorescence densely clothed. Bark thin, 

 grey brown. Wood white soft (Gambles'^, with tawny wool-like 

 to mentum. Leaves shortly stalked, 6-10in. long, by 2-3in. broad, 

 lanceolate crenate or sharply toothed, long-pointed ; at times 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate. Upper surface wrinkled, stellately- 

 pnbescent ; lower, tomentose ; lateral nerves 12-15 pairs. Petiole 

 |-|in. Flowers hardly iin. long, pink, crowded in axillary stalked 

 cymes. Calyx bell-shaped, minutely 4-toothed, ^o'u). Corolla 

 tubular regular 4-lobed, tube short. Stamens far protruding, 

 equal, 4. Anthers small exserted. Ovary 2 or 4-celled ; style 

 long, stigma minutely capitate. Fruit a spongy succulent globose 

 drupe, white with 4 one-celled pyrenes, when ripe fully 

 (Collett and Kanjilal.) 



Uses : — In Hazara the leaves heated are applied to rheumatic 

 joints. (Stewart.) " The leaves," says Trimen, ''have a peculiar 

 scent, mixed fetid and lemon-like, and are used for flavouring 

 native soups and curries. An aromatic oil is also obtained from 

 the root and used as a remedy in disorders of the stomach." 



950. Tectona grandis, Linn., f. h.f.b.i., iv, 570; 

 Roxb. 202. 



Sans. :— Saka. 



Vera : — Sagun (Hind.) ; Segun (Beng.) ; Singuru (Uriya) ; 

 Tekku, tek (Tarn.); Teku (Tel.); Jati (Mai.) ; Saj, sal (Arab, 

 and Pers.) ; Sagwan or Sag (Bomb.) ; Tegina-mara, Saguvani, 

 Sagoni-Mara (Kan.). 



Habitat: — W. Deccan Peninsula, from Central India to 

 Orissa. 



A large deciduous tree, 80-120 fit. high ; branchlets 4-angu- 

 lar, stellately tomentose. Leaves about 12 in. long (or much 

 larger in seedling specimens), elliptic or obovate, acute or 

 acuminate, entire, usually cuneate at the base ; upper surface 

 rough, but glabrous, the lower densely clothed with grey or 

 yellowish tomentum, main lateral nerves 8-10 pairs. Flowers 



