N. O. LEGUMINOSffi. 
451 
395. Gylista scariosa, Ait. h.f.b.i., ii. 219, 
Vern. : — R&n ghevada (Mar.). 
Part used The root. 
Habitat -. — Woods of the Concan, Dekkan, Canaraand Orissa. 
A woody, climbing shrub, with slender, finely downy 
branches Leaves 3-foliate. Leaflets minutely stipellate, 
sub-coriaceous, ovate, or sub-rliomboidal, acute, 2-4in. long, 
thinly grey, downy above, densely downy below. Flowers in 
copious, distinctly peduncled, lax or dense racemes ; bracts 
long, membranous, ovate, caducous ; pedicels short, densely 
pubescent. Corolla yellowish red, Jin. long. Calyx finally 
1-11-in., teeth scariose and persistent, the lowest much the 
largest and boat-shaped, lin. broad, the two side ones smaller 
than the two upper. Corolla enclosed in the Calyx, the petals 
equal in length. Keel much incurved, truncate. Stamens dia- 
delphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, 1-ovuled ; style 
long, filiform, stigma capitate. Pod small, oblique, oblong, 
enclosed in the Calyx. 
Use : — The root is collected by the herbalists and sold as a 
remedy for dysentery and leucorrhoea. It is also applied exter- 
nally along with other drugs to reduce tumours. Its most re- 
markable property is astringency ; a reddish lucid juice issues 
from it when cut, which, on drying, becomes black and brittle, 
and may be seen adhering to the short pieces of the dry rooi which 
are offered for sale (Pharmacographia Indica, Yol. L, p. 451). 
' 396. Flemingia strobilifera, R. Br. h.f.b.i., ii. 227. 
Vern. : — Kasrant (Oudh); Simbusak (Santals) ; Bolu (Darjee- 
ling', Bundar, Kanphuti (Bomb). 
Habitat: — Himalayas, from Simla and Kumaon to Assam, 
Khasia and Chittagong. 
An erect shrub, 5-16ft. high. Branches slender, terete, velvety. 
Leaves obovate, lanceolate, sub-coriacoous, 3-8in. long, green, 
glabrescent above, thinly silky, especially bn the raised parellel 
erecto-patent ribs below. Stipules scariose, linear, |-|in. ; 
petiole stiffly erecto-patent, i-lin. Recemes 3-6in. long, 
