1138 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



supported by tbe enlarged calyx. Seeds broadly trigonous, 

 dorsally rounded. 



Use : — The twigs and leaves are said to kill cattle when 

 browsed in the early morning on an empty stomach. (Stewart). 



1129. Phyllanthas reticulatus, Poir., h.f.b.i., v. 

 288, Roxb. 681. 



Sans. : — Krishna-kamboji. 



Vern. : — Panjoli, makhi, buin-owla, kale-madh-ka-per (H.) ; 

 Panjuli (B. and Pb.); Kabonan (Raj.) ; Kamohi, fruit =pika- 

 piru, leaves = kamohi jopun, bark = kamohi joohodo (Sind); 

 Pavana (Bomb.) ; Datwan (Guz.) ; Pulavayar-puttay, pillanji, 

 karappu-pillanji (Tarn.) ; Nalla-puruguddu, purugudu, nella- 

 purududu, phulser (Tel.). 



Habitat : — Throughout tropical India, in the plains from 

 Sind, Behar, Rohilkund, Sikkim and Assam to Travancore. 



A large straggling or climbing shrub, 8-10ft. Bark brown, 

 thin. Wood reddish or greyish-white, hard, close-grained. 

 Shoots glabrous or finely pubescent. Branches lenticillate, 

 numerous, stout ; woody branchlets long, drooping. Leaves 

 l-2in., oblong or elliptic, tip rounded, acute or obtuse ; 

 "variable," says Trimen, "lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 nearly rotundate, glabrous or slightly pubescent, somewhat 

 paler beneath;" nerves 6-8 pairs; slender. Petiole T2-iin. ; 

 stipules small, subulate, persistent, hard. Flowers pink, soli- 

 tary or several together on slender, axillary peduncles. Calyx- 

 segments ovate, membranous, alternating with glands of the 

 disk. Male flowers : —Stamens 5, filaments of the 3 inner longer, 

 connate. Female flowers: — Ovary, 5-10-celled (Brandis), 4-5-celled 

 ( Trimen ) ; styles short, minutely lobed ; stigmas short ; ovules 

 2 in each cell, superposed. Fruit a purple berry, sweetish when 

 ripe, shining, smooth, depressed, globose. i-§-in. diam., often 

 racemose on leafless branches. Seeds 8-14, triquetrous, finely 

 granulate, superposed in each cell, bluntly trigonous. 



Uses : — The leaves are employed as a diuretic and cooling 

 medicine in Sind. (Stocks.) The bark is considered alterative 



