466 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Habitat: — Himalayas to Ceylon and Ava. Sutlej Valley. 
Basantpur, Sabatbu, Western Peninsula. 
A straggling, woody, thorny, stout climber. Branches finely 
downy, with small yellow prickles. Bark yellowish white, 
corky, with corky excrescences bearing strong thorns. Wood 
light-brown, moderately hard, with masses of reddish-brown 
harder wood near centre (Gamble). Leaves 2-pi nnate, 10-18in 
Leaflets 10-24, opposite nearly sessile, oblong, J-lin., obtuse; 
Trimen from Ceylon notes 20-24 leaflets (10-12 pair) ; fin., 
sessile, closely placed, over-lapping, oblong, very obtuse, pubes- 
cent on both sides, thin. Flowers large, bright, chrome-yellow ; 
filaments crimson, l^in.; pedicel 1-l^in., stout, hairy, ascend- 
ing. Racemes terminal, large, 6-12in. long, erect. Bracts 
long, lanceolate, acuminate, caducous. Calyx finely, but densely, 
pubescent. Segments very -obtuse, petals shortly clawed, reflexed. 
Stamens much exserted. Filaments woolly for more than lower 
half. Ovary sessile, style glabrous ; stigma small. Pod glabrous, 
cuspidate, nearly flat, obliquely oblong, 2-3 by lin., tipped with 
the persistent style base. Seeds 4-8, mottled (Collet) ; 6-8. 
oblong, 5 in., greenish, mottled (Trimen) ; compressed. 
Use : — In Chamba, the bruised leaves are applied to burns. 
(Stewart, p. 60). 
415. G. digyna, Rottl. h.f.b.i., ii. 256. 
Syn. : — C. oleosperma, Roxb. 356. 
Vern.: — Vakeri-mul (H. and Bomb.); Umul-koochi (BA; 
Nooni-glika (Tel.) ; Vakeri-che-bhate (Bomb.). 
Habitatr-.~- Eastern and Western Peninsula, Assam, Bengal, 
Chittagong, Burma, upper and lower ; Sambalpur (C. P.). Cey- 
lon. Eastern Himalaya. 
A large, scandent, woody shrub, sparingly prickly. Branches 
glabrous, purple, with hooked brown prickles, which latter 
are scattered and uniform. Young parts rufous-pubescent. 
Leaves narrow, main rachis 6-8in., with 9-12 pair of pinnae, 
with rachis \\-2\n. pubescent. Leaflets 20-24 (10-12 pair), 
| in., sessile, closely placed, overlapping, oblong, very obtuse, 
pubescent on both sides, thin, dark-green, membranous. 
Flowers 1 in., yellow; pedicel lin., horizontally divaricate, 
