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Habitat . — Cultivated in South India and in the Ganges, 
Doab, and in Bengal. 
A short-lived, wooded tree, attaining 20-30ft., with virgate 
terete branches. Bark light brown, smooth. Wood white, 
soft. Leaves |-lft. long. Leaflets 10-30 pair, oblong, glaucous, 
l-ljft. long. Flowers 2-4in., short axillary racemes, Sin. long, 
red or white. Calyx lin. deep, glabrous, shallowly 2-lipped. 
Calyx-cup full of honeyed-juice. Pod 10-12in. long, or more, 
|in. broad, compressed, tetragonous, falcate, firm, not torulose, 
the sutures much thickened. 
Parts used . — The bark, leaves, flower, and roots. 
Use . — In Bombay, the leaves or flowers are made use of 
by the Natives, their juice being a popular remedy in nasal 
catarrh and headache : it is blown up the nostrils and causes 
a very copious discharge of fluid, relieving the pain and sense 
of weight in the frontal sinuses. The root of the red-flowered 
variety, rubbed into a paste with water, is applied in rheuma- 
tism. From I to 2 tolas of the root-juice are given with honey 
as an expectorant in catarrh. A paste made of the root, with 
an equal quantity of stramonium root, is applied to painful 
swellings. The leaves are also said to be aperient (Dyinock). 
An infusion of the bark is given in small-pox (T. N. 
Mukerji). 
The bark is very astringent and is recommended as a tonic 
by Dr. Bonavia (Ph. Ind.) 
A poultice of the leaves is a popular remedy in Amboyna 
for bruises. The juice of the flowers is squeezed into the eyes 
to relieve dimness of vision (Murray). 
The flowers and pods are used in Bombay in curries and 
fritters. The taste of the pods, when cooked as a vegetable is, 
somewhat mawkish. Some don’t mind the mawkish taste, and 
eat them largely (K. R. K.). 
363 . Astragalus tribuloides, Delile, H. F. B. I., 
ii. 122. 
Vern. Ogai (Pb.). 
Habitat Plains of the Punjab. 
