456 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
lf-4 by ^--fin., narrowed at both ends, glabrous, 2-3-seeded, 
long-stalked, oval, compressed (Talbot). 
Uses: — The bark and an oil obtained from the seeds are 
medicinally used by the Natives (Beddome). 
The Santals use the bark along with that of Flncourtia ; 
Ramontchi as an external application during intermittent fever. 
The leaves and the roots are also employed medicinally (Rev. 
A. Campbell). 
403. D. volubilis Boxb. h f.b.i., ii. 235, 
Roxb. 536. 
Fern. : — Alei, Munganver (.Bomb.) ; Bandee-gurjun (Tel.) ; 
Bhatia, bankhara (H.) ; Bir-munga, nari-siris (Santal.) ; Nubari 
(Uriya) ; Rangdi (Mai.); Bhatia (Kumaonj. 
Habitat— Sub-Hirnalayan tract, from Kumaon eastward; Oudh 
forests, Bihar, Central and Southern India. Phoondaghaut, near' 
Sawantwadi, in the Bombay Presidency. Common in Burma 
and the Andamans. 
A large scrambling or climbing unarmed tree, with green 
glabrous, circinate branches, i. e., often bent and twisted 
into spinal hooks. Bark thin, brown, peeling off in flakes, 
wood light-brown, hard (Gamble). Leaves 4-6in. long ; rachis 
pubescent. Leaflets 9-13, elliptic or obovate, often minutely 
mucrouate at apex, l-2in. long (Brandis); or 11-13, thin glabrous, 
oblong, obtuse, apiculate, terminal largest ; petiolules 2 oim long. 
(Talbot). Flowers small, curved, pale-blue, in compact, large, 
pubescent panicles. Corolla pale-lilac, says Talbot. Stamens 
10in., 2 bundles of 5 each. Pod 2-3in. long, |in. broad, 
1- rarely 2- seeded, linear-oblong, obtuse, stalked, glabrous, 
thickened and veined opposite the seeds 
Use : — In the Concan, the juice of the leaves is applied to 
aphthae, and used as a gargle in sore-throat. The root-juice, 
with cumin and sugar is given in gonorrhoea (Dymock). 
404. D. spinosa, Boxb. h. f.b.i., ii. 238. Roxb. 
536. 
Habitat : — Tidal forests along the coasts, from Chittagong to 
Tenasserim ; also on the Ghats and on the coast of the Western 
Peninsula. 
