994 INDIAN MKDIC1NAL PLANTS. 



Dr. Mootooswamy lias seen the natives using the leaves 

 soaked in goat's urine or in onion juice for dropsy ; sometimes 

 ehebulic myrobalans are added if the bowels are costive. 



A small or medium-sized deciduous tree ; branchlets and 

 young leaves pubescent or velvety. Leaves membranous, drying 

 black, 3-6'in. long broadly ovate, sharply acuminate, usually 

 quite entire, base cuneate ; upper surface glabrous when mature, 

 the lower hairy especially on the midrib, petioles i-fin. long. 

 Corymbs broad, usually terminating short leafy branchlets, 

 rusty pubescent. Calyx 5-toothed, clothed with spreading 

 hairs. Corolla greenish-white, |in. long, pubscent within. 

 Drupe globose, verrucose. 



Use :— The milk of the bark is applied to boils, and the juice 

 is given to cattle in colic (Atkinson). The juice is applied 

 medicinally in the Punjab (Stewart). 



954. P. eseulenta, Roxb., h.f.b.i. iv., 580 ; Roxb. 

 485. 



Habitat : —Assam and Chittagong. A cultivated plant. 



A short-stemmed entirely glabrous shrub ; branching, 6-8ft. 

 Leaves 6J by 3in., obovate or elliptic-acuminate, sharply 

 serrate, base entire, cuneate suddenly narrowed, sometimes 

 very shortly cordate, mature glabrate, nerves 5 pair ; petiole 

 £in., slender obscurely puberulous. Corymbs compact, nearly 

 glabrous, 2^in. diam., short-peduncled, globose many-fid ; 

 bracts T ^in., linear. Calyx j^in., cup-shaped, obscurely puberu- 

 lous ; minutely 5-toothed somewhat enlarged, more distinctly 

 toothed in fruit. Corolla £in., yellowish white, 2-tipped, throat 

 hairy. Drupe Jin , globose or somewhat obovoid, usually 3-4 

 seeded. 



Use : — The natives of Chittagong employ the leaves medicin- 

 ally (Roxb.). 



955. P. herbacea, Roxb. h.f.b.i., iv. 581 ; Roxb. 

 485. 



Habitat: — Subtropical Himalaya, from Kumaon to Bhotan. 

 S. Deccan Peninsula. 



Sans. : — Bhumijambu, bhumi-jamberka. 



