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glaucous beneath, finely serrate, with equal spinulose teeth, 
crowded on arrested branch lets in the axils of the 3-fid, rarely 
5-fid, or rarely simple spines. Petiole slender, T ’ 0 -l in. long. 
Racemes pedunculate. Flowers pale-yellow, stigmas broad, 
sessile. Perry ovoid, or cyllndric, as long as, or shorter than 
the pedicel, usually red when ripe; edible. 
Hooker and Thomson observe that this is an extremely variable 
plant. No less than five varieties are known. 
Use : — In the Punjab, the drug is used as diuretic, and for 
relief of heat, thirst and nausea. It is astringent, refrigerant 
and antibilious. In small doses it is tonic, in larger cathartic. 
In the form of decoction, it is useful in scarlet fever and brain 
affections. (Watt). 
50 . B. aristata , D.C. h.f.b.i., i. 110 . 
Satish . : — Darvi, Darn haridra, Pitadaru (yellow wood , xKata 
(The hip), Kateri (Having the bile), of bile, Suvarnavarna (Gold- 
coloured', Katankati (Growing on the hips . 
Vern. : — Chitra ; Cliotra (Knmaon); dar-hald ; rasvat ; Kasli- 
mal (H.) ; Sumlu ; Simlu ; Kasmal ; Chitra (Pb.) ; Chitra 
(Nepal) ; Tsema I Blmtia). ‘ Rasout ’ in India is the root- 
extract — Trimen. 
Habitat -Temperate Himalaya, from Bhotan to Kunawer, 
Nilghiri Mts., Ceylon, Jaunsar and Tehri-Garhwal, Simla. 
e.ooc-o.ooo ft. 
Parts used : — The stem, root-bark, and fruit. 
An erect spinous shrub, evergreen, 10-12 ft. high. 
Bark soft, light-brown, corky. Annual rings distinctly marked 
by a narrow belt of numerous pores. Pores small, in short, narrow 
wavy tails of light-coloured tissue. Branches shining, reddish- 
brown, slightly drooping. Leaves sessile, broadly lanceolate, 
more Or less persistent, 2-3 in. long, obovate or oblanceolate, 
rathei 1 coriaceous, entire or with a few remote teeth, in the axil of 
5-fid, triful or a simple spine. The spine is here but a reduced leaf. 
Floicers bright, golden-yellow, in cymosely-branched racemes, 
drooping, much longer than the leaves. Peduncle 1-1 £ in., 
long, red. Style short, but distinct. Stigma small, sub-globose. 
