INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
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Habitat: — Chitagong, Sylhet, and the Eastern and Western 
Peninsulas. 
A large, scandent, prickly shrub. Branches slender, very 
flexuous. Prickles copious, dark-coloured, hooked. Pinnae 2-5 
pair. Leaflets distinctly petioluled, l£-2in. long, obtuse, coria- 
ceous, glossy above. Racemes axillary and terminal, copiously 
panicled, with spreading branches; pedicels as long as the calyx. 
Calyx glabrous, ^-Jin. Petals scarcely exserted. Filaments densely 
woolly in the lower half. Pod 2in. long, broad oblong, coriaceous 
pointed at both ends, hard indehiscent, rather turgid, 1-seeded. 
Use The roots of this plant are said to be diuretic ; they 
have been reported as useful in gravel and stone in the bladder, 
and the juice of the stem has been used externally and in- 
ternally in eye diseases. For the same purpose are used also 
the roasted fruits, which have a bitter taste. The finely 
powdered leaves have also been administered to women im- 
mediately after delivery as a tonic to the uterus (Watt. ii. 10). 
412. C. Sappan Linn, h.f.b.i., ii. 255, Roxb. 
356. 
Sans. : — Patang. 
Vern. : — Bokam, tairi, patang (H. B.) ; Teri (Santal) ; Bokmo 
(Ooriya) ; Patang-na-lakaru, patang-mu-lfikado, bakam (Guz.) ; 
Patang-ki-lakri (Duk.) ; Patang (Mar.) ; Patanga, vatlangi, 
vatt^ku, vartangi (Tam.) ; Bakanur, bakapu. okaunkatta, 
pattanga-katta, bakaun-chekka, bukkapu-chekka (Tel.) ; Patau- 
ga-chekke, sappanga (Kan.) ; Chappanum (Mai.). 
Habitat The Eastern and Western Peninsulas. 
A small sub-glabrous tree or struggling shrub. Wood hard. 
Sapwood white, heart-wood orange yellow, says Gamble. The 
heart-wood is red and takes a fine polish says Talbot. Prickles 
small and few. Leaf-rachis i 1 ft. long, leaflets No. 30 moderately 
smalboblong very oblique subsessile corinceous, Pinn No. 24. 
Panicles often as long as the leaves, the young branches, 
slightly perruginous-pubescent ; bructs large, lanceolate cadu- 
cous ; pedicels | 1 in. Calyx | in. Glabrous. Filaments densely 
worthy in the lower helf, slightly exserted. Ovary grey velvety. 
Pod 3-4 in, by in. sub-compressed, polished oblique oblong 
