N. 0. UHTICAOE^. 1183 



1171. Streblus asper, Lour., h.f.b.l, v. 489. 



Syn. : — Trophis aspera, Retz., Roxb. 714. 



Sans. : — Sakhotaka. 



Vern.: — Siora, karchanna, rusa, daheya (H.) ; Sheora, (B.j; 

 Ham saijung (Kol.) ; Sahra (Santal) ; Sahuda (Uriya) ; Nugnai 

 (Magb) ; Karasni (Gond.) ; Jindi, dahya (Pb.) ; Karvati, karera, 

 karaoli, karchanua, rusa (Bomb.) ; Prayara, palpirai (Tam.) ; 

 Bariniki, bari venka, barranki, pakki (Tel.) ; Mitli, punje (Kan.). 



Habitat : — Drier parts of India, from Rohilkhund, eastward 

 and southward to Travancore, etc. 



A small, evergreen, rigid, shrub or scraggy, gnarled tree, 

 attaining 20ft. in height. Bark fin. thick, soft, light-grey, 

 irregularly ribbed. Wood white, moderately hard, no heart- 

 wood, no annual rings. All parts full of milky juice. Branch- 

 lets many, tomentose or pubescent. Leaves elliptic or obovate, 

 penni-nerved, irregularly dentate, rough on both sides, with 

 minute, raised, round dots, blade 2-4in., petiole very short, about 

 i\m. long, stipules obliquely lanceolate. Flowers dioecious. 

 Male in globose heads ; perianth campanulate, deeply 4-fid. 

 pubescent outside ; sepals 4, imbricate. Stamens 4, long, inflexed 

 in bud. Females solitary, on axillary, usually fascicled pedun- 

 cles, Jin. long, perianth yellow, of 4 decussate ; closely imbricate 

 sepals. Ovary straight, retuse ; styles 2, filiform, connate at 

 base. Ovule pendulous. Fruit a yellow, 1-seeded, pisiform 

 berry, enclosed in enlarged, fleshy sepals. Seed globose ; testa 

 membranous ; albumen 0; embryo globose ; one cotyledon, very 

 large, fleshy, enclosing the other, which is very small, and the 

 upcurved radicle. 



Uses : — The milky juice has astringent and antiseptic quali- 

 ties, and is applied to sore heels and chapped hands. The 

 bark in decoction is given in fevers, dysentery and diarrhoea. 

 The roots are used as an application to unhealthy ulcers and 

 sinuses. It is said to be an antidote to snake poison. 



1172. Morus indiea, Linn., h.f.b.l, v. 492, 



Syn. '• — M. alba, Var. Indica. Roxb. 658. 

 Sans. : — Shalmali, tula, tuda. 



