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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Seeds white or pale yellow, 3-angled, f-f in. long, 3-winged. 
Wings very thin, hyalive. 
Use : — The roots, as of M. pterygosperma, have a pungent 
flavor, and are said to be used as a substitute for horse-radish. 
(Murray). 
N. 0. C0NNARACE2E. 
338. Rourea santaloides, W. and A. h.f.b.i., ii. 47. 
V ern. : — Vardhara (Bom.) ; Wakeri (M.) ; Huleshadlabally 
(Kan,.). 
Habitat: — Western Peninusla, from the Concan to Travan- 
core. 
A semi-scandent or small tree. Branchlets slender. Bark 
shining, purplish ; buds pubescent. Leaves imparipinnate, 
rachis, 3-6 in., slender, curved, glabrous. Leaflets often al- 
ternate, 1-3 pair (2 or 3 pair and a terminal one — Trimen), glab- 
rous, coriaceous, very shortly stalked, shining above, 2-3 in., 
(2-5 in. — Trimen) oval or lanceolate Elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, 
caudate-acuminate, rounded at base, with prominent reticulate 
venation beneath. Secondary nerves, arching, conspicuous. 
Flowers white, small, 4 in., on slender jointed pedicel, with a 
minute, hairy bracteole at the joint ; arranged in lax, slender, 
erect or ascending glabrous, recemose panicles, several of which 
arise from leaf-axil. Calyx-segments strongly imbricate, or- 
bicular, very obtuse, glabrous. Petals much longer than sepals, 
oval-oblong, spreading. Stamens erect. Ovary glabrous ; styles 
spreading. Fruit a capsule (Brandis), f-1 in. long. Follicles 
\ in. or a little more, cylindric, falcately curved, tapering to a 
point, apiculate, striate, surrounded at base by a leathery cup 
formed of the much-enlarged and elongated sepals, dehiscing 
ventrally, i.e., along the inner suture. A rill us orange-colour- 
ed. Seed about \ in., oblong ovoid. Cotyledons plano-convex. 
Flowers in April, says Trimen ; May-Oct., says Brandis. 
Habitat : — Ceylon up to 3,000 ft. Malabar coast, evergreen 
forests of the Western Ghats, from the Concan southwards. 
Singhalese (Kirindi-wel;. 
