1190 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



stigma cylindric or clavate. Receptacles finely pubescent 

 while young. Fruit sessile, yellow or reddish ; Jin. diam.; 

 basal broadly ovate, obtuse, spreading. 



Uses : — The bark of the root, the root itself, and the leaves 

 boiled in oil form good applications for wounds and bruises. 

 (Rheede.) 



In rheumatic headache, the leaves and bark pounded are 

 applied as a poultice. In flatulent colic, the following pre- 

 scription is used in the Concan : — Take of Nandruk leaf juice, 

 Tulsi leaf juice, and ghi equal parts; boil until all the water 

 has evaporated ; do this again 21 times with fresh quantities of 

 the juice of the two plants ; the residuum may then be applied 

 to the belly, and fomentation with hot brick be practised. The 

 juice of the bark has a reputation in liver disease ; dose 1 tola 

 in milk. (Dymock.) 



1179. F. Rumphiiy Blume, h.f.b.i., v. 512. 



Vern. : — Kabar, gajna, pipul, gajiun, pipal, gagjaira, pakar, 

 khabar (Hind.); Gaiaswat (Beng.) ; Suman-pipar Kol.) ; 

 Sunamjor (Santal) ; Pakri (Assam) ; Sat-bur (Cachar) ; Pakar 

 (Nepal); Prab (Garo) ; Kabai pipal (Kumaon) ; Pulakh, rumbal, 

 badha, palak, pilkhan (Pb.) ; Paras, pipal (Raj.) ; Pair, payar, 

 asht (ashta), (Mar.) ; Kabai pipal, ganjar, suman, pipar (Lohar- 

 dugga) ; Nyung byu (Burm.) 



Habitat : —On the dry lower slopes of the mountains of 

 the Punjab ; and the Northern, Western and Central Tndia, 

 Assam. 



A large, deciduous tree, often epiphytic, all parts glabrous. 

 " Bark smooth, grey, Jin. thick. Wood very soft, spongy, with 

 alternating bands of loose and firm tissue of equal width. 

 Pores oval, scanty, moderate-sized. Medullary rays fine, 

 uniform, equidistant." (Gamble.) Leaves sub-coriaceous, upper 

 surface minutely tuberculate when dry, shining, long-petiolate, 

 broadly ovate, with acuminate apex ; edges entire, sub-undulate; 

 base broad, but slightly narrowed towards the petiole ; basal 

 nerves 5, rarely 7 (2 being minute) ; lateral primary nerves 3-6 

 pair, rather irregular, prominent only in the young state ; 



