1196 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Achene elongated, obovoid, minutely tubercular. Style lateral, 

 filiform, stigma obovate. 



Uses: — The juice and bark are in Bombay well-known 

 remedies for glandular enlargements of the abdomen, such as 

 liver and spleen. (Dymock.) 



1184. F< hispida, Linn., h.f.b.l, v. 522. 



Syn. : — F. oppositifolia, Willd., Roxb., 647. 

 Sans. : — Kak dumbar. 



Vern. : — Kagsha, gobla, totmila, kat-gularia, konea-dumbar 

 Katumbri Rambal, dambar, Bhudoi (Hind.) ; Dumar, kak-dumar 

 (Beng.) ; Kotang, sosokera (Kol.) ; Sita pordoh (Santal) ; 

 Khoskadumar (Ass.); Shakab (Garo) ; Koreh (Kurku) ; Kharwa 

 (Nep.) ; Taksot (Lepcha) ; Poksha (Michi) ; Maiu-lok (Magh) ; 

 Katumer, bomair (Gond) ; Daduri, degar, rumbal(Pb.); Dhe 

 daumaro, jangali anjir (Guz.) ; Dhedumera Kharawat (Mar.) ; 

 Pe-attis (Tarn.) ; Bodamamadi, brahma-medi, bummarri, korasana 

 (Tel.); Adavi-atti (Kan.); Pe-yatti paraka (Mai.). 



Habitat : — Throughout Tndia, from the Punjab in the N. W. 

 to Malacca and Ceylon. 



A moderate-sized tree. Bark ^in. thick, grey, peeling off in 

 irregular flakes, with slight, horizontal ribs encircling the tree. 

 Wood soft, dirty-grey, in regular concentric bands of soft tissue 

 which alternate with firmer bands of equal width and darker co- 

 lour. Pores scanty, moderate-sized, often oval and sub-divided. 

 Medullary rays moderately broad and fine, prominent as long, 

 narrow bands on as radical section. (Gamble.) 



The tree is quick of growth, recognized easily by its oppo- 

 site leaves. All parts more or less hispid pubescent, the bran- 

 ches and, in Malayan specimens, the upper surfaces or the leaves 

 sometimes glabrescent when old. Leaves opposite, usually, says 

 King ; petiole membranous, ovate, ovate-oblong or elliptic to 

 sub-ovate-elliptic, apiculate or abruptly acuminate, edges den- 

 tate or entire in old leaves, base rounded, emarginate, slightly 



