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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
l-2in. across. Pedicels g-fin., filiform, downy or glabrous. 
Calyx |-|in. ; teeth obtuse. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers 
uniform. Pod oblong-linear, 2-3in. long, flat-veined, slightly 
contracted between the seeds, scarcely dehiscent ; seeds 2-5, flat. 
Uses : — The bark when incised furnishes a kino-like exudation, 
which is used in cases of dysentery and diarrhoea (Lisboa). But 
its efficacy is very doubtful (K. R. K.). According to Campbell 
(Econ. Prod., Chutia Nagpur), a decoction of the bark is given 
among the hill tribes, when the urine is high coloured. In the 
Central Provinces, the bark is said to be used as a febrifuge. 
373. Desmodium tilicefolium, G. Don. h.f.b.i., ii. 168. 
Vern. : — Motha, sambar, shamru, chamra (H.) ; Chamyar 
marara, gur-kats, dud-sambar, pirhi (Pb.). 
Arab. : — Sad-koofi. 
Vers. Mushk-Zamin, 
Habitat . — Himalayas, from the Indus to Nepal. 
A small, erect, shrubby plant ; branches slender, terete, finely- 
downy. Leaves 3-foliate. Leaflets obtuse or sub-acute, thick, 
flexible, sub-coriaceous, green, glabrescent above, densely hoary 
beneath ; end one obovate, 2-3in. long, entire or obscurely 
repand, base deltoid or rather rounded. Petiole 2-3 in. Racemes 
copiously lax, often 1 ft. long, axillary and terminal, the latter 
often copiously panicled with lower branches again compound. 
Bracts lanceolate. Pedicels 5 -gin., ascending, finely downy. 
Calyx |in., downy ;• teeth deltoid, shorter than the tube. 
Corolla f-iin. Pod 2-3 in. long, *in. broad ; joints 6-9, longer 
than broad, thinly clothed with adpressed silky hairs. 
Use : — The roots are considered carminative, tonic and diu- 
retic, and used in bilious complaints. (Dr, Emerson.) 
374. D. gangelticum, D.C., h.f.b.i., ii„168. 
Syn. : — Hedysarum gangeticum, Linn., Roxb. 575. 
Sans. ■ — Salaparni. 
Vern. : — Sarivan ^H.) ; Salp&ni (B.) ; S&lwan, daye (Bomb.) ; 
TaDdi-bhedi-janetet (Santal), Gita-naram, kolaku-ponna (Tel.). 
