386 THE TIMBER TREES AND USEFUL PLANTS 
76. Guatteria velutina, Dec. fil : (Unona, Daw.) gidar ruhh, guiyasal. 
Frequent, but nowhere common throughout the inner and middle part 
of the forest. Its wood is not valued, though some of its congeners fur- 
nish very useful timber in other parts of India. 
77. Hastingia coccinea, Smith : kabbani, geya. A fine red-flowered 
shrub, which hardly extends outside the Siwaliks. 
78. Helicteres Isora, L., maeorphali. A large shrub abundant through- 
out the middle and inner parts of the forest. Its corkscrew -like fruit 
is used largely by the natives in colic, dysentery, &c, probably on the 
doctrine of signatures which natives believe in as thoroughly as did our 
ancestors 300 years ago. . 20 seers 1/ — . 
79. Hiptage Madablota, Gcert : (madmalt). A remarkably handsome 
climber, which is very rare outside the Siwaliks. 
80. Holarrhena antidysenterica, Wall : kuar, moria. A tall shrub, 
abundant all over, especially in the inner part of the belt. Its wood is 
white, soft, and fine-grained, and though rather more knotty than the 
duddhl (No. 137) it is largely used for carving tobacco-boxes, and spoons 
and forks for Mussulmans. Cart load — /10 ; 10 maunds 1/ — . 
There is inextricable confusion in the books between this plant and 
Wrightia antidysenterica, as to which of them yields the febrifuge bark 
called conessl in Southern, and indarjan in Northern India. The bark 
of this plant is undoubtedly used by the herdsmen with that oiRottlera 
for fever, but I cannot find that it is collected for export, or is known by 
the name indarjan. 
81 . Hymenodyction ecccelsum, "Wall : 1 beram, genta (bhoulun). A large 
tree with a dark bark, very corky, and much gnarled, not uncommon all 
over. The timber is white, soft, and little valued, but near the Sutlej 
appears to be made into sword-scabbards. In the Peninsula the bark is- 
employed in tanning. 
82. Kydia calycina, Rox : pattra, paldo. A moderate-sized bushy 
tree, with smoothish, ash-coloured bark, occasionally seen planted in the 
open plain, common over the inner half, and abundant in the innermost 
part of the forest. Its wood is little valued, but is occasionally em- 
ployed for making ploughs and spoons. 
The bark (chukld) has much viscous juice and is taken to the plains 
in large quantities to be used in clarifying sugar. 
83. Lagerstroemia parvijlora, Kox : bdktl (dhdnri). A fine tree with a 
columnar trunk, the dark old bark of which peek off in thinnish scales 
from the light grey beneath. Is common over all the inner portion of 
the forest, and apt to be confused with Conocarpus (No. 40). Its 
timber is white, close-grained, straight-fibred, and elastic, and is em- 
ployed for building, and for ploughs, hatchet-handles, &c. Cart 1. ad 
— /8 ;4|x 1| yds. 1/8. In Bombay it is extensively used in the dock- 
yards, and I am told that by the Meerut coach-builders for buggy shafts 
it is reckoned second only to sundri (Heritiera minor, Lam.). I may note 
