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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
A large, erect, deciduous tree. Bark between -|-£ in. thick, 
grey, exfoliating in narrow, longitudinal stripes Wood very 
hard, close-grained ; sapwood small, white ; heart-wood brown, 
with darker longitudinal veins. Branches finely greyish, downy. 
Leaf-rachis zigzag. Leaflets large, 3-5, roundish, with a very 
distinct cusp, firm, soon glabrescent, 1-3 in. long. Flowers in 
short axillary panicles, which latter are much shorter than the 
leaves, the erect patent branches densely pubescent, racemoso- 
corymbose ; pedicels short. Calyx ^in. deep, downy ; teeth 
very short, the lowest rather the longest, lanceolate. Corolla 
yellowish, twice the length of the Calyx ; standard with a long 
claw and round limb. Stamens 9in one bundle, the sheath of the 
filaments being split only along the top. Bod thin, straight, 
strap-shaped, pale brown, glabrous, ls-4by:§"- in., obtuse, with 
a stalk twice as long as the Calyx, 1-4-seeded. Seeds £in. long, 
kidney-shaped, flat. 
Uses : — The raspings of the wood are officinal, being consi- 
dered alterative (Beddome). 
Useful in leprosy, boils, eruptions and to allay vomiting. 
(Punjab Produets.) 
The roots are said to be so astringe nt that they are neither 
'eaten by rats nor ants. The oil is applied externally in cutane- 
ous affections ( Atkinson). 
The mucilage of the leaves mixed with sweet-oil is a good 
application in excoriations A decoction of the leaves is given 
in the acute stage of gonorrhoea (Watt.) 
The seeds give 9-1 per cent of oil. 
401. D. sympathetica , Nimmo. h.f.b.i., n. 234. 
Vern. : — Pentgul (Bomb.) ; Titabli (Goa). 
Habitat : — Hills of the Western Peninsula. 
A large, scandent shrub ; stems armed with blunt or sharp 
twisted or straight spines, 6-10in. long. Leaves 4-6in. long ; 
rachis softly pubescent ; leaflets 11-15, ovate-oblong, obtuse, or 
emarginate, coriaceous, thickly covered with grey or brown-silky 
hairs especially beneath, f-1 by j 8 0 -|in. ; petiolules join- long. 
Panicles peduncled ; the ultimate branches secund, corymbose. 
