1158 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



silky below. Female flowers : — sepals ovate, or oblong sub-acute, 

 scabrid ; petals very minute, subulate, long-ciliate ; disk low, 

 hirsute. Ovary densely woolly ; styles bifid, arms long, slender. 

 Capsule large, globose, or broadly oblong, woody, f-lin. long 

 or broad, terete or with 6 slender ridges, densely rusty, scabridly 

 pubescent, 6-valved, from the top downwards. Seeds very 

 variable, dorsally compressed, slightly rugose. The variable 

 fruit is the remarkable character of this plant. (J. D. Hooker.) 



Use : — Mr. Home says the leaves are applied as a poultice 

 to sprains. 



1149. C. Tiglium, Linn., h.f.b.t., v. 393 ; Roxb. 

 688. 



Sails. : — Jayapala ; Kanakaphala. 



Vern. : — Jaypal (B.) ; Jamal-gota (H. and Alar.) ; Napal 

 (Guz. and Kan.) ; Nervalam (Tarn.) ; Nepala-vitna (Tel.) ; 

 Nir valam (Mai.) 



Habitat : — Bengal, Assam and southward to Malacca, Burma 

 and Ceylon. 



A small, evergreen tree. The youngest shoots sparsely stel- 

 lately hairy. Leaves membranous, glabrous, ovate, acuminate, 

 more or less serrate, 2-4in., glands minute, sessile, 3-5 basal- 

 nerves. Petiole l-2in. slender. Racemes 2-3in. Rachis glab- 

 rous ; bracts subulate. Male flowers : — pedicels stellately hairy ; 

 sepals nearly glabrous, tips bearded ; petals narrow, woolly- 

 edged. Stamens 15-25, glabrous, receptacle, villous ; disk-glands 

 5, small. Female flowers : — Sepals villous at the base within. 

 Petals 0. Disk obscure, annular. Styles slender, 2 partite. 

 Ovary, stellately hispid and oblong. Capsule f-lin. long, white, 

 turbinately obovoid, obtusely trigonous. Seeds J-fin., oblong, 

 obtusely trigonous, pale. 



Use : — The seeds and oil are officinal in both the Pharma- 

 copeias and their uses are too well known to be mentioned here. 



1150. Crozoplwra tinetoria, A. Juss., h.f.b.i,, v. 

 408. 



Vern. : — Tappal buti, nilam, kukronda (Pb.) ; Shadevi, son- 

 balli, subali (H.) 



