N. 0. TAM ARISCINE.tO. 
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obliquely truncate, apex triangular, acute, adpressed. Sbeatli 
and apex with impressed glands. Flowers bisexual or monoe- 
cious, loosely scattered on long slender spikes which are 
generally collected at the ends of branches in loose panicles. 
Bracts shorter than flowers; stamens 5. Disk entire or indis- 
tinctly 5-iobed. Capsules J in. long. Flowering time, May to 
September. The extremities of branchlets and the leaves 
on older branchlets are shed during the cold season ; new’ shoots 
and leaves come out about May. 
Parts used : — The bark and galls. 
Uses : —The galls are employed as an ii&LingeuMKoyle). 
The bark is bitter, astr ingent and probably tonic. (Ph. fnd , 
p. 20.) 
The bark powdered and, in combination with oil and 
Kamala, is used as an aphrodisiac by the natives. It is also 
employed as an application in eczema capitis, and other diseases 
(Watt). 
124 . Myricarici elegans, Royle., h.f.b.i., I. 250 . 
Vern. : — Humbu ? Umbu (Pb.) 
Habitat: — Western Himalaya from Garwdial to Ladak. 
A bush, with smooth, striate slender stem. Leaves oblong- 
ovate or oblanceolate, narrowed at the base, often crowded. 
Bracts, ovate, about twice as long as the pedicels, but short 
acuminate, with narrowly membranous margins. Flowers 3 in, 
lateral lax ; white (Brandis.) Sepals connate below, much short- 
er than petals, obtusely triangular at apex. Stamens connate 
for one-fourth of their length, 10, alternately long and short, 
monadelphous. Ovary tapering, with 3 sessile stigmas ; placentas 
basal, very short, adnate to the middle of the valves ; ovules many. 
Seeds exalbuminous, with a usually stalked plume. Embryo 
ovoid. 
Use : -The leaves form an application to bruises, &c., in 
Lahoul (Aitchison) 
