tt. O. LAU1UNE.E. H03 



1091. Aetinodaphne Hookeri, Meissn., H.F.B.I., v. 

 149. 



Vern. :— Pisi (Bomb.). 



Habitat: — A small tree or shrub of Sikkim, and of the 

 Eastern and Western Ghats of South India and in Kanara and 

 Sattara, and particularly at Mahabaleshwar. 



A moderate-sized tree in evergreen forest. Bark light- 

 brown, smooth. Wood light-brown, moderately hard, even- 

 grained. Branchlets and young leaves usually densely, softly, 

 rusty-tomentose or villous. Buds large, silky. Leaves whorled, 

 coriaceous, elliptic, ovate-lanceolate, finely acuminate, glabrous 

 and shining above, but often tomentose beneath when full 

 grown; blade 5-7in., petiole i-fin.; secondary nerves 6-8 pair, 

 the lowest pair often extending almost to the middle of the leaf. 

 Clusters of female flowers sessile. Fruit ellipsoid, seated on 

 the cam'panulate, entire perianth-tube. 



Uses : — A cold infusion of the leaves is mucilaginous, and is 

 used in urinary disorders and in diabetes. The oil of the 

 seeds, Pisa-tela, is used as an external application to sprains ; 

 it is of a reddish colour, and has a fatty odour. (Dymock.) 



1092. Litsea sebifera, Pers., Var. sebifera proper ; 



H.F.B.L, V. 158. 



Syn. : — Tetranthera apetala, Eoxb, 734. 



Vern. : — Garbijaur, singrauf, medh, menda, bark — maida- 

 lakri (Hind.) ; Kukur chita, ratlin, garur, bark = maida-chhal 

 (Beng.) ; Suppatnyok (Lepcha) ; Medasak, chandna, gwa, rian, 

 medachob, bark = meda-lakri, maidasak (Pb.) ; leaves = chickana 

 (Bomb.); bark = Mirio (Goa) ; Maida-lakadi (Mar.;; mushaippe- 

 yetti, pishin-pattai (Tarn.) ; Narra alagi, nara mamidi, meda 

 (Tel.). 



Habitat :— Widely distributed throughout India. 



A moderate-sized evergreen tree, 20-50ft., very variable in 

 foliage and inflorescence. Bark lin. thick, brown. Wood 

 greyish-brown or olive-grey, moderately hard, shining, close 

 and even-grained. Inner bark viscid. Branchlets and infiores- 



