1148 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



uvula and tonsils are swelled. The bark is astringent. Further 

 information upon the medicinal properties of this plant is 

 wanted. (Dymock.) 



1138, Putranjiva Roxburghii. Wall., h.f.b.i., v. 

 336. 



Syn. :— Nageia Putranjiva, Roxb. 716. 



Sails : — Putra-jiva. 



Vem. : — Jiaputa, joti, putr-jiva, (H.) ; Putranjiva, jiaputa 

 (B.) ; Pitoj (SantJ ; Patajan, jiyaputra, seeds — jiapota ; leaves = 

 piitrajivak (Pb.) ; Puta-jan, putra-jiva, jiv-putrak, jiwan-putr 

 (Mar.) ; Karupali (Tarn.) ; Kadrajuvi, kudrajinie, mahaputra jivi 

 yarala, kuduru juvir (Tel.) ; Pongalam (Mai). 



Habitat : — Wild and cultivated throughout Tropical India, 

 from the Lower Himalaya in Kumaon, eastwards and south- 

 wards to Pegu and Ceylon. 



A handsome, evergreen, moderate- sized, tree generally with 

 pendant branches. Branchlets slender, minutely pubescent ; 

 petioles pubescent ; foliage dark-green. Bark dark-grey, whitish 

 when young, with numerous horizontal oblong lenticels. Wood 

 grey, moderately hard, close-grained. Leaves]obliquely obovate 

 or ovate lanceolate, serrulate, 2-3in., obtuse, acute or acuminate, 

 coriaceous, shining, base unequal-sided. Main lateral nerves 

 8-10 pair, besides secondary nerves and reticalate veins. Petiole 

 5-i 3 ain. long ; stipules subulate, deciduous. Disk 0. Male flowers 

 short, pedicelled, in axillary clusters which are often spicate ; 

 calyx 3-5 partite ; stamens 3 ; filaments free or connate at the 

 base. Female flowers long, pedicelled, axillary, solitary or in 

 twos or threes; calyx 5-6-cleft, segments small, imbricate; 

 stamens 3, filaments more or less connate. Ovary tomentose ; 

 styles 3 ; stigmas crescent-shaped, fleshy. Fruit drupe, iin. long, 

 ovoid or globose ; white tomentose on pedicels, i-in. long. Puta- 

 men hard, pointed, rugose ; seed one. 



Uses : — The leaves and stones of the fruit are given in decoc- 

 tion in colds and fevers. (Stewart.) 



The nuts are hung rouud the necks of children to keep them 

 in good health. They are mentioned in the Nighantas as being 



