1156 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



These results indicate that the oil belongs to the class of drying oils 

 typified by linseed oil, and would be suitable for the manufacture of soft 

 soap and in the preparation of oil-varnishes, paints and linoleum and other 

 similar purposes, to which oils of this class are applied industrially. (Agricul- 

 tural Ledger— 1907— No. 4.) 



1146. Croton reticulatus, Eeyne, h.f.b.t.,v. 386. 

 Vern. :— Pandhari or pandharisala (Mar.). 



Habitat : — Deccan Peninsula, from the Concan southwards. 



A shrub with slender, terete branches. Branchlets, leaves 

 beneath and inflorescence silvery, lepidote. Leaves ovate or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, quite entire, shortly 3-nerved at 

 the base, opposite and alternate, 4-10in., smooth and glabrous 

 above, base acute or rounded ; petiole f-ljin., rusty, lepidote. 

 Racemes few-fid, shorter than the leaves. Sepals of male oblong ; 

 margins woolly, twice as large as the woolly oblong petals. 

 Stamens glabrous except at the villous base, 15-18. Sepals of 

 female linear, oblong, accrescent in fruit, sometimes ^in. long. 

 Ovary globose, stellately lepidote. Styles very variable, usually 

 2-partite, with long, slender, unequally 2-fid arms. Capsule Jin. 

 long, broadly oblong, stellately lepidote. 



Use:— The bark is used as a bitter and stomachic. (S. 

 Arj'un.) 



1147. G. oblongifolius,Roxb.,E.F.B.i.,v. 386, 

 Roxb. 688. 



Vern. :— Chucka (Patna) ; Baragach (B.) ; Arjunna (Oudh) ; 

 Ach (Nepal) ; Kurti, konya, kuli, poter (Kol.) ; Putri (Lohar- 

 dugga) ; Gote (Santal) ; Kote, putol (Mai.) ; Burma, parokupi 

 (Ass.); Bhutan kusam (Tel.) ; Gonsur (Goa) ; Ganasura (Mar.). 



Habitat : — Bengal, Ceylon, Behar, Central India and the 

 Deccan Peninsula. 



A small, deciduous, often gregarious tree. Bark lin. thick, 

 grey or brownish, inner bark red, coarsely fibrous. Wood yel- 

 lowish-white, moderately hard. Branches rather stout. Shoots, 

 young leaves, branchlets, inflorescence, calyx and ovary densely 

 clothed with minute, orbicular, silvery scales. Leaves rather 

 coriaceous, pale-green, glabrous when full grown, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, penninerved, more or less serrate, blade 5-10in. ; petiole 



