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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
A gregarious glaucous shrub or small tree. Bark, with 
reticulate cracks showing the red inner bark. Wood moder- 
ately hard, outer portion white. Pores small to moderate-sized 
in groups or short radial lines, more abundant and larger 
in the spring wood. Medullary rays very prominent, short, 
fine to very broad, very prominent on radial section. The 
distance between the rays is generally three or four times 
the transverse diameter of the pores. The tree gives a 
gum of bitter sweet flavour (Gamble). Leaves sheathing, 
sheath tubular, apex acuminate, closely oppressed, with a- broad 
white margin. Flowers dioecious, pentamerons, purple or light 
pink, in still compact cylindrical pedunculate spikes often 
forming loose panicles at tlfe ends of branches. Bracts as long 
as or nearly as long as the flowers. Male flowers : stamens alter- 
nating with the 5 lobes of the fleshy disk, anthers distinctly api- 
culate. Female flowers: 5 thin linear staminodia ; styles 
filiform, thickened at the end, longer than the ovary. Capsule 
T s 5 in. long, about 'twice the length of the withered sepals and 
petals at the base. 
Use : — The twigs and galls are used Ln medicine as an 
astringent (Stewart). 
123 . T. articulate i, Vahl, h.f.b.i., i. 249 . 
Sijn. : — T. orientalis, Forslt. 
Vern. : -Faras, farwa, marlei (Pbd; Asrelei (Sind). The 
galls : — Choti-main (IT.); Magiya- main (Bomb-); Lal-jhstu (B. & H.) 
Habitat : — Sind and the Punjab. 
A moderate-sized tree, with an erect trunk, frequently 
6-7 ft. in growth. Bark grey, rough ; wood white moderately 
hard. Annual rings indistinct. Pores moderate-sized, often in 
groups or sub-divided, or singly between the medullary rays, 
scanty. Medullary rays short, fine to very broad, the distance 
between the lays somewhat greater than the transverse diameter 
of the groups of pores ; prominent on a radical section as. irregu- 
larly-shaped plates, giving the wood a handsome silver grain 
i Gamble). Branchlets articulate at base of sheath, often grey 
with saline efflorescence. Leaves sheathing, sheath to in. long, 
