1204 



INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Habitat: --Evergreen forests of the Western ghats, from the 

 Concan southwards, 



A tall ever-green tree, attaining 200ft. Wood moderately 

 hard ; sapwood white ; heart wood yellowish-brown, durable, 

 seasons well. Pores large, sometimes subdivided, often filled 

 with a white substance. Medullary rays fine to moderately 

 broad, wavy very distinct, but distant, bent where try meet the 

 pores (Gamble.) Young shoots, petioles, peduncles, stipules, 

 midribs, and main nerves appressedly hispid with long tawny 

 hairs. Leaves 6-9 by 4~6in., broadly ovate or elliptic (rarely 

 obovatej, subacute, coriaceous, entire, smooth, and when adult 

 glabrous except on the midrib and nerves beneath, slightly 

 narrowed to the base ; main nerves about 10 pairs, prominent 

 beneath ; petioles stout, |-|in. long ; stipules nearly lin. long, 

 lanceolate. Flowers on axillary pedunculate receptacles ; the 

 male receptacles narrowly cylindric, at first erect or ascending, 

 afterwards pendulous, 4-6in. long and about i'm. in diam. ; 

 the female receptacles erect, 4J by 3Jin. Male flowers : 

 Sepals 2, united below. Stamen 1 ; anther exserted, ovate. 

 Receptacle scales (bracteoles) chaffy, not peltate. Female 

 flowers : Perianth tubular, confluent below with the receptacle. 

 Fruit size of a lemon, echinate, the spines (free apices of 

 anthocarps) about Jin. long, cylindric, straight, hispid, 

 perforate at the apex for the filiform style, edible Seeds 

 i-fin. long, ovoid. (Cooke.) 



Uses : — The dry leaves and juice together with Zodory and 

 Camphor are applied to buboes and swelled testicles. (Rheede.) 



The dried juice breaks with a resinens fracture, is only partly soluble 

 in alcohol, wholly soluble in benzol and petroleum ether, (Pharmacogr. 

 Ind. III. 355.) 



1191. A. integrifolia, Linn., ii.f.b.l, v. 541. 



Sans. : — Panasa. 



Vern. : — Kanthal (B. and Ass.) ; Kathal, chakki, panasa, 

 panas (EL) ; Kanthar (Santal) ; Poros (Kol.) ; Panasa (Uriya) ; 

 Phanas (Mar. and Bomb.) ; Pila, pilapazham (Tarn.) ; Panasa- 

 pandu, pansa, veru-panasa (Tel.) ; Halsu, heb-helsu, halsina 

 (Kan.) ; Teprong (Garo). 



Eng. :— The Jack-fruit tree. 



