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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
adiai (Garo.) ; Amara (Nepal) ; Koucbiling (Lepcha) ; Kat, Am- 
bobam (Mai. S. P.) ; Ambuda (Uriya) ; Ambera (Kurku) ; Hamara 
(Coond) ; Anna, amurs, bobamle, amara, amabara (Kumaon), 
(Babamo) ; Ambara (P. B.); Ran-amb, jungli am (Deccan); 
Ambada, jangli-am, ambada, amra amarah, (Bomb.) ; Ro amba, 
ambada (Mar.) ; Kat-maa, rlianamb, mariman, chedi, katmora, 
Ampullai (.Tam.) ; Puiille, kaders ambala cbettupita, briksb, 
amnivuru, mamidi, amatum, adivio-mamadie toura mamidi 
(Tel.) ; Amte, ambatte mara, amate, pundi (Kan). Corre, kyoroe 
(Burm); .ZEmbcraslla (Sing.); Darakhte-moryam (Pers.). 
Habitat. — Throughout India, from the Indus eastwards and 
southwards to Molacca and Ceylon. 
A large, glabrous, deciduous tree. Bark smooth, aromatic 
grey, with short shallow, longitudinal wrinkles. Wood soft, 
light grey. Leaves 1-1^ ft. ; petiole slender. Leaflets 3-5 pair, 
quite entire, elliptic-oblong, acuminate 2-9 by 1-4 in., shortly 
petiolulate, shining, more or less oblique ; secondary nerves 
nearly straight, 10-20 pair, joined at the ends by a prominent 
nerve, running along and close to the edge of the leaf-blade. 
Flowers pentamerous, white, nearly sessile, clustered on stout 
ramifications of a sparingly-branched, terminal panicle, poly- 
gamous, nearly sessile. Calyx 5-toothed, deciduous. Petals 
5, about j’g in. long, oblong, greenish white, spreading. Disk 
cupular, crenate. Stamens 10, inserted below the disk ; 
filaments subulate, shorter than the petals ; anthers versatile. 
Ovary sessile, free. Carpels 4-5 distinct in flower, coalescing 
into a single stone in the carpels. Drupe l|-2 in. long, ovoid or 
oblong, fleshy, smooth, acid and rose-scented, yellow when 
ripe. Putamen fibrous and filled with cavities outside. Seeds 
2-5, of which only one is perfect. 
Parts used. — The fruit, bark, leaves and gum. 
Use. — The pulp of the fruit is acid and astringent, and is 
considered useful in bilious dyspepsia (Dymock). The bark is 
sometimes used as a refrigerant medicine (T. N. Mukerji). 
It is also useful in dysentery; and the juice of the leaves is 
used for ear-ache (Atkinson). 
