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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANT8. 
This is a fairly useful anthelmintic and a good substitute 
for santonine, in some cases acting very well, indeed. 
Preparations. — Powdered seeds, dose fifteen to thirty grains 
twice or thrice a day, followed by castor-oil on the succeeding 
morning. The gum has been only lately used in this hospital ; 
but as an astringent, it is found to be a useful substitute for 
kino in the ordinary cases of diarrhoea and dysentery, of chil- 
dren especially. Preparations and dose, &c., are similar to 
Kino.” ( Apothecary F. G. Ashworth, Kumbakonam). The 
leaves are astringent and used by the Natives as a poultice 
to dispel tumorous haemorrhoids, buboes, etc. The seeds are 
anthelmintic in doses of 20 grains. The gum is very astrin- 
gent, and, in doses of five grains, most useful in checking 
serous diarrhoea. In large doses, it is efficacious in haemorrhage 
from the stomach and bladder. A strong solutio« of the 
guip is said to be a useful application for bruises and erysi- 
pelatous inflammations.” Surgeon E. A. Barker, Doomha. 
The seeds contain 18'2 per cent, of fat (Waeber, 1386). The oil is yellow, 
nearly tasteless and solidifies at 10' (Lepine). Brannt records the specific 
gravity at 0'927. 
387. B. superba , Roxb. h.f.b.i., ii. 195, Roxb. 
541. 
Sans. : — Lata-palasa. 
Vern. : — Tiwat, tiwas, palas-w61 (Bom.); Tiga-muduga (Tel.) ; 
Lata-palash (B.) ; Nari-murup (Santal) ; Vel-khakar (Guz.) ; Bel- 
palas (Dec.) ; Kodi-murukkam, kodi-palsham (Tam.) ; Balli-mut- 
taga (Kan.) ; Valliplach-aha, valli-muruk-ka (Mai.). 
Habitat : — Forests of the Goncan, Bengal, Orissa, Burma, 
Oudh, Central India, and the Circars. 
A gigantic climber. Bark dark brown, thick, very fibrous. 
Wood dark-brown, very porous and fibrous. It yields a gum 
like Kino. Stems thick as a man’s leg. Does not differ from B. 
superba in botanic characters ; leaves and flowers scarcely 
distinguishable from B. superba. Leaflets and flowers larger, 
says J. G. Baker. Leaflets chartaceous, acuminate, says Brandis. 
Flowers of a gorgeous orange colour on pedicels 3 times the 
length of Calyx. Lower Calyx-teeth lanceolated, deltoid. Keel 
