1002 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



shining resinous glands on the corolla ; and calyx also. Flower 

 yellowish or greenish white. 



Use: — In Chutia Nagpur, the bark is used for making an 

 external application for pains in the chest (Revd. A. Camp- 

 bell). 



961. V. glabrata, Br. h.f.b.i., iv. 588. 



Vern.: — Goda, horina, ashwal (Beng.) ; Luki neva-ledi 

 (Tel.); Sengenit karril (Kan.) ; Tokra (Magh.) ; Sherasa (Mar.); 

 Htouksha (Burm.) ; Sheras ; Longarbisthiras (Bom.). 



Habitat : — From S. Assam and Gachar to Deccan Peninsula. 



A large deciduous tree ; wood grey, handsome, with a satiny 

 lustre, moderately hard, close-grained, durable. Youngest 

 shoots slightly fulvous-tomentose or woolly. Leaves almost 

 glabrous, mostly 5-3 foliate. Leaflets 5 by 2^-in., ovate or 

 oblong, subentire, acute or cuneate at both ends, entire, rarely 

 toothed, mature with scattered appressed minute hairs beneath, 

 younger very softly hairy or subtomentose. Petiolules i-fin., 

 upperside without resinous glands. Petiole l-4in., not winged. 

 Peduncles long or often short. Cymes dichotomous. Flowers 

 somewhat numerous, mostly shortly pedicelled ; bracts incons- 

 picuous. Calyx tnin., minutely toothed, usually glabrous in the 

 lower, hairy in the upper part. Corolla i-Jin. long, white and 

 purple, tomentose, " ochroleucous," says C. B. Clarke, which 

 means yellowish white or buff ; further Mr. Clarke adds thus : — 

 " Lowest segments much the largest, hairy blue-purple." Fila- 

 ments minutely hairy. Pistil glabrous. Drupe J-Jin. long, 

 succulent, obovoid. 



Use : — The bark and root are used as astringents. 



962. Clerodendron inerme, Ocertn., h.f.b.i., iv. 

 589 ; Roxb. 477. 



Sans. : — Kshudragnimantha, kundali. 



Vern. : — Sang-kuppi, sang-kupi, lan-jai (H.); Bun-jumat, 

 bun-join, bonjoi, ban-jai, ban-juen, batraj (B.) ; Vanajai (Bom.) 

 and Mar.) ; Isandhari, sangkupi (Duk.) ; Shengan-kuppi, pina- 

 shengam-kuppi, shangam-kupi, pinari (Tarn.) ; Pishinika, uti 



