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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
416. Wagatea spicata, Dalz. h.f.b.i., ii. 260. 
Vevn. : — Wagati, Wakeri, Kuldgajga (M.); Hooliganji, Vagati 
(Kan.). 
Habitai Western Presidency. 
A robust, woody, prickly, climbing slirub, with long trailing 
prickly brandies. Leaves abruptly bipinnate, -f-lft. long and 
broad. Pinnae 8-10 pair ; leaflets glabrous, elliptic-oblong, l-2in. 
long, nearly sessile, oblong, acute, rigidly sub-coriaceous, 
venulose. Flowers nearly subsessile, in long dense spikes, 
bright scarlet on a thick furrowed brown-velvety rachis. Bracts 
minute, lanceolate, cuspidate. Calyx scarlet, campanulate, fin., 
segments 5, the lowest much longer than the others. Petals 
orange, 5, equal, oblanceolate', inserted with the stamens on the 
side of the disk lining the Calyx-tube. Pod indehiscent, 4-5- 
seeded, more or less constiicted between seeds. 
Use : -The pods (Teve pods) contain a large proportion of 
tannic acid. Roots used in cases of pneumonia (Talbot’s List 
of Trees, Shrubs and Woody Climbers of the Bombay Presidency, 
2nd edition, p. 143). Bark yields a dye material and is used 
as an application for skin diseases. 
417. Cassia Fistula, Linn, u f.b.i., ii. 261, Roxb. 
348. 
Syn. : — Cathartocarpus Fistula (Pers.). 
Eng. : — The Indian Laburnum or Purging Cassia. 
Sans. : — Suvarnaka, araghadha, rajataru. 
Vern.\ — Amaltds, girmalali (H. and D.); Alash, ali, karangal, 
kiar, kaniar (Pb.) ; Rajbriksk, kitola (Kumaon); Rdjbriksha 
(Nepal); Cliitnkani (Sind.); Sunddh, sonali, dmultds, bandarldti 
(B.) ; Nurnic (Santal.); Hari (Kol.) ; Sonalu (Garo) ; Sanaru (Ass.); 
Bandolat (Cachar); Sandari or Sunari (Uriza) ; Kitawali, sitoli, 
itola, bhimarra, sim (N. W. P.) ; Warga (Oudh) ; Jaggarvvah, 
raila, piiojah, karkacha (C. P.); Jaggra, jugarua, kambar, rera 
(Gond.) ; Bahava, bhawd, baya, bawa (Mar.) ; Gartnal or SarmalA 
(Guz.) ; Kouraih-kay, shaiak-kouraik-kay, koue (Tam.) ; Reylu, 
