1114 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Bengal, at Comilla, Chittagong, Deccan Peninsula, from the 

 Concan southwards. 



A straggling shrub, climber or erect tree. Bark dark- 

 brown, i or Jin. thick, deeply cleft in vertical or spiral fissures 

 and peeling off in thick plates. Wood light-yellow, moderately 

 hard. Trunk sometimes 6in. diam. ; branches often spinescent. 

 Leaves ovate-oblong, elliptic or almost rounded, obtuse or acute ; 

 blade 3-5in. ; petiole J-Jin. long. Branchlets, petioles, under- 

 side of leaves densely clothed with ferruginous or silvery, 

 circular, dentate and lobed scales. Flowers male and bi-sexual, 

 scented ; pedicellate in few or many-fid, often pedunculate 

 fascicles. Perianth clothed outside with silvery or ferruginous 

 scales ; in the fertile flower much constricted above the 

 ovary. Fruit l-ljin., ovoid-oblong, succulent, red or yellow 

 pulp when ripe, edible. Endocarp ribbed, coriaceous, clothed 

 inside with a dense felt or white hairs. 



Uses : — The flowers are officinal in Siod and Punjab, and are 

 considered cardiac and astringent. (Stewart.) Griffith says 

 that fruit is used medicinally in Kashmere as an astringent. 

 Very agreeable to taste. 



1104. Hippophw rhamnoides, Linn., h.f.b.i., v. 

 203. 



Vern. : — Tsarap, tsarana, sirna, tsuk, tasru (Ladak, Piti and 

 LahouL ; Dhurchuk, tarwa, chilk, chuma (U. P.) ; Kala bisa, 

 bant phut, amb, kando, milech, miles, suts, rul (Pb.). 



Habitat: — North-Western Himalaya; in the beds of streams 

 of the inner drier ranges, from Kumaon westwards. 



A large, thorny, dioecious shrub, sometimes a small tree, with 

 rigid branches, and silvery twigs and leaves. Bark grey, rough, 

 with vertical furrows. Heartwood yellowish-brown, mottled, 

 moderately hard, close-grained. Leaves short-petioled, alternate, 

 ^-2 by fViin., sub-coriaceous, glabrescent and dull-green above, 

 felted with grey or rust- coloured, circular or irregularly in- 

 dented scales beneath. Male flowers in axillary clusters on 

 the old wood. Perianth with two opposite oblong segments, 

 filaments short. Female flowers axillary, solitary, pedicelled. 



