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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Ram-phal (Bomb. Deck., Mar., Guj., Kan.) ; R&msita or rim- 
situ-plam (Tam.) ; R4m4-paudu, rdmaphalam or rdmi-chandar 
pandu (TeL). 
English Names : — The Bullock’s Heart, or true Custard Apple 
of the West Indies. 
Habitat : — A small tree, naturalised in India, occurring in 
Bengal, Burma and South India. 
A largo tree often growing 20-40 ft. Leaves oblong or 
oblong-lanceolate, quite glabrous, smooth or roughish beneath ; 
5-8 by 1 1-2 in., base acute; petiole | in. Flowers 2-3 together 
on lateral peduncles. Sepals 3, small, valvate. Petals 3, narrow, 
oblong, thick, Fruit subglobose, roughish outside with penta- 
gonal areoles ; tawny-coloured when ripe. 
Much cultivated in the Bombay gardens. A native of the 
West Indies quite naturalized. 
Parts used Bark and fruit. 
Uses : — The bark is said to be a powerful astringent, and 
to be much used as a tonic by the Malays and Chinese. 
The fruit is reported to be used in the West Indies and by 
the natives of America, as an anti-dysenteric and vermifuge. 
(Watt’s Dictionary, Vol : I. p. 259). 
36 . Bocagea Dalzelii, Hk. /. and Thoms, h.f.br.i., i. 
92 . 
Syn. — Sageraea laurina, Dalz. 
Vern. — Sajeri. Kochrik. Harkinjal (Marathi). Andi (Bomba y). 
Habitat. — Forests of the Eonkan and Travancore. 
A middle-sized, evergreen, glabrescent tree. Leaves 
shining, coriaceous, thick, 5-9 by l|-2 in., narrow, oblong, acute 
or obtuse ; base rounded or acute. Petiole i in. Flowers white, 
2-sexual, in. diam ; crowded in fascicles of 1-15 on woody 
tubercles. Pedicels |--§- in. Bracteoles several, scaly basal. 
Sepals orbicular, distinct, slightly imbricate ; outer petals £ in. 
broad, ovate, larger but not twice the size of the inner. 
