N. o. EUPHORRTACE^. 1165 



conserve. (Lindley.) Tts leaves are beaten np with green 

 tobacco leaf and infusion of rice and applied to inveterate ulcers. 

 (Rheede). 



1155. Trewia nudiflora, Linn., h.p.b.i., V. 423. 



Sans. : — Pindara, Karahata, Kurangaha. 



Habitat. : — Common in the hotter parts of India. 



A deciduous dioecious moderate-sized tree. Bark smooth 

 grey. Wood white soft not durable. Young shoots, inflores- 

 cence and sometimes full-grown leaves clothed with flocculent 

 cottony wool or sometimes nearly glabrous. Leaves ovate, 

 opposite, 5-7in., cordate at base, entire, acuminate, glabrous 

 above, finely stellate-hairy on veins beneath, thin, bright green, 

 -somewhat 3-nerved at base. Petiole cylindric, 2-3in., finely 

 pubescent. Stipules minute, acute, soon falling. Male flowers : 

 — on slender horizontal pedicels. Racemes spicate, 4-6in., buds 

 globose. Sepals valvate, concave. Female flowers : — Ovary 

 globose, densely stellate-hairy style yellow thick erect, stigmas 

 very long l-fin. Fruit about Jin., roughish with scattered 

 stellate hairs. Seed brown, broad pericarp thick, almost <voody. 

 Flowers pale green. 



Uses. : — It is described in the Nighantas as sweet and cooling, 

 useful for the removal of swelling, bile and phlegm ; the root 

 is prescribed in gouty or rheumatic affections. 



Rheede states that the root in decoction is used to relieve 

 flatulence, and is applied locally in gout (Pharmacographia 

 Indica, Vol. III., p. 295). 



1156. Mallotus philippinensis, Muell., h.f.b.l, 

 v. 442. 



Syn. : — Rottlera tinctoria, Eoxh. 737 ; R. aurantiaca, Hooh. 

 and Am.; R. affinis, Hassk.; R. Montana and Mollis, Wall; Croton 

 philippinensis, Lamk.; C. Punctatus, Betz.\ C. coccineus, 

 Vdhl.\ G. montanus, Willd ; C. distans, Wall.; C. cascarilloides, 

 Raueseh. 



Sans. :— Kapila, Kampilla rechanaka Madhukah (Punnaga 



