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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
with fine adpressed hairs. Flowers few, in short axillary tfr 
terminal racemes. Calyx s-£in., teeth deltoid, minute. Limb 
of standard not longer than the Calyx. Stamens 2-3, monadel- 
phous. 
Use -. — There are three kinds of sandalwood, according to 
the Sanskrit writers — white, yellow and red. The red variety is 
considered astringent, tonic, and is used as a cooling external 
application for inflammation and headache. (Dutt.) 
Considered by the Natives a hot remedy, useful in bilious 
affections and skin diseases, also in fever, boils, and to 
strengthen the sight. It also acts as a diaphoretic, and is ap- 
plied to the forehead in headache (Baden Powell). 
The wood, rubbed up with water, is advantageously em- 
ployed as a wash in superficial excoriations of the genital organs 
(Surgeon-Major Gray). Used also over swelling of eyelids for 
reducing the swelling, (K. R. K.) 
A decoction of the legume is useful as an astringent tonic 
in chronic dysentery, after separation of the slough (Surgeon- 
Major Shircore, Watt’s Dictionary). 
406. P. marsupium, Roxb. h.f.b.i., ii. 239, 
Roxb. 536. 
Vern-: — Bija, bijilar, peetshola (H ); Bibla, huni, asan 
(Bomb.); Kandamiruga-mirattam, vengai (Tam.); Gandum- 
rugam-nettura, peddagi, pedei, zegi (Tel.) ; Karin-thagara ^Mal.) 
The gum — Kamarkas (II.); Chinai-gond (Bomb.). 
Habitat: — All parts of the Madras Peninsula, extending 
North to the Rajmahal Hills in Bihar and Central India. 
A large, deciduous tree. Bark gin. thick, grey, with long 
vertical cracks, exfoliating in small pieces of irregular shape 
and size. Wood very hard, close-grained, giving a red resin ; 
sapwood small ; heartwood yellowish-brown, with darker streaks. 
Leaves with soft adpressed hairs while young, dark green, 
shining. Leaflets 5-7, coriaceous, elliptic-obtuse, emarginate, 
sometimes shortly acuminate, glabrous when full grown. 
Secondary nerves 15-20 pair, with intermediate ones joined 
by prominent reticulate veins. Flowers yellow or white, 
pedicels much shorter than Calyx, in terminal panicles. Calyx 
