1198 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



action of the bark is generally attended with more or less 

 purging. The dose is placed at from forty to sixty grains. 

 The bark, in doses of from fifteen to thirty grains, three or four 

 times daily, is stated to act effectually as an antiperiodic, and 

 in half those quantities as a good tonic. (Ph. Ind.). 



1185. F. Cunia, Ham., h.f.b.i., v. 523. Roxb. 

 646. 



Vern. : — Khewnau, Kunia, khurhur, kassa, ghui (H.); 

 Dumbur, jagya-dumur (B.) ; Riu, aiu (Kol.) ; Porok podha 

 Horpodo (Santal); Kanhya (Nepal); Sangji (Lepcha) ; Kanai, 

 palkai taikran (Michi) ; Kathgular, trumbal, karndol, kuri 

 (Pb.) ; Porodumer, Kharwar. (Mar.) 



Habitat : —Sab-Himalayan forests, from the Chenab to 

 Bhotan ; Central India, Assam, the Khasia lilts, and Chittagong. 



A small or moderate-sized tree, usually evergeen branchlets, 

 young shoots and midrib pubescent. " Bark thick, reddish- 

 brown, rough ; wood rough, moderately hard, greyish-brown 

 with narrow, concentric bands which alternate with broader 

 bands of firmer texture. Pores scanty, moderate-sized. Medul- 

 lary rays fine, equidistant." (Gamble). Leaves alternate, entire 

 or serrate, rough above, more or less pubescent beneath, semicor- 

 date, the lower half of the base large rounded, shape and size 

 very variable ; blade 8-16 ; petiole |-f in. ; stipules -f-lin. long, 

 base broad, scar, annular. Receptacle I'm. diam., in pair or 

 clusters on long, leafless, scaly branches, from the trunk near 

 the base of the ripening underground. Male sepals 3. Gall 

 and female sepals abut 4, lanceolate, gamophyllous. Ovary of 

 galls, globose, smooth ; style very short, lateral. Achenes 

 broadly ovate, emarginate on one side, tubercled, viscid ; style 

 very long, lateral ; stigma large, bifid. Recognized at once by 

 the long leaves with unequal semi-sagittate base. 



Uses : — The fruit is given in aphthous complaints. A bath 

 made from the fruit and bark is a cure for leprosy. (Rheede.) 

 The juice from the roots is given in bladder complaints and, 

 boiled in milk, in visceral obstructions, (Revd. A. Campbell.) 



