N. 0. TTIYMELACCE/K 1 109 



Vern. : — Pecli (Sind) ; KutilAl, kanthan, gandalun, maeshur, 

 shalangn niggi, channi zlii, kak, zosho (Pb.^ ; Laghune (Afg.). 



Habitat: — Western Himalaya, from Garhwal westwards 

 to Murree and the Sulaiman Range. 



A small, much- branched shrub. Bark grey, with occasional, 

 prominent, horizontal lenticels. Wood white, soft. Young 

 shoots pubescent. Branches green-brown or purple, pubescent 

 or glabrate. Leaves sub-sessile, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 

 very variable, coriaceous ; midrib prominent, terminating in a 

 sharp mucro. Flowers white, with a pink tinge, slightly seen to 

 in terminal heads of 3-9 flowers. Perianth-tube fin. long, 

 outside densely tomentose, inside glabrous. Ovary pubescent. 

 Fruit orange or scarlet, dry or rather fleshy, J |in. long, 

 ellipsoid. 



Uses : — Aitchison, in his Flora of Kurram Valley, says that 

 the roots of this plant are used internally, after boiling as a 

 purgative. He, in another place, says : "Camels will not eat 

 this shrub except when very hungry. It is poisonous, producing 

 violent diarrhoea. 1 feel certain that much of the mortality of 

 camels in the Kurram division was due to the prevalence of this 

 shrub." 



The bark and leaves are used in native medicine. The 

 berries are eaten to induce nausea. Stewart refers to this 

 plant as hurtful to camels, making the same observation as 

 was made by Aitchison in Kurram He further says : 

 " The bark is used by women in Kanawar for washing their 

 hair," and adds that it has been tried for paper-making. 

 The bark and leaves are used in cutaneous affections and, on the 

 Chenab, the leaves or an infusion are given for gonorrhoea 

 and applied to abscesses. (Stewart. 1 ) 



1098. Wikstroemia Indica, C. A. Mey. h.f.b.i., 

 v. 195. 



Syn. : — Daphne Viridiflora, Wall. 



Habitat : — Chittagong, Tenasserim, Singapore. Distributed 

 to China, Mauritius, Philippines. 



