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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
ulate, caducous. Flowers usually in nearly sessile pairs in the 
axils of the leaves, of the upper very crowded. Corolla small, 
bright or orange-yellow. Sepals concave. Stamens sub-equal. 
Pods i-fft. by \ in. ; membranous, slender, sub-tetragonous, 
the sutures very broad. Seeds uniseriate, flattened in the 
same direction as the pod, truncately cylindrical, about sin. 
long ; length parallel to the suture. 
Parts used : — The leaves and seeds. 
Uses: — In Hindu medicine it has a great reputation in all 
kinds of skin diseases. Chakradatta recommends the seeds 
together witli those of Pongamia glabra as a cure for ring-worm. 
Mohainedan writers notice the closing of the leaves at night. 
They consider the seeds and leaves to have solvent properties 
in those forms of skin disease accompanied by induration, e.g., 
leprosy, cheloid, psoriasis, &c. (Dymock). 
The leaves are gently aperient ; fried in castor oil, they are 
considered a good application to foul ulcers. The seeds ground 
with sour butter-milk are used to ease the irritation of itchy 
eruptions ; and the root, rubbed on a stone with lime juice, is 
supposed to be one of the best remedies for ring-worm. The 
leaves are also used as a poultice to hasten suppuration (Ainslie). 
A warm remedy in gout, sciatica and pains in the joints (B. 
Powell.) 
The medicinal properties are due to the presence of chryso- 
phanic acid. (Vide a paper by Mr. Elborne on the analysis of 
the seeds in Ph. J., 22 Sept. 1888, p. 242). 
421. 0 . aurieulata, Linn, h.f.b.i., ii. 263. 
Syn. : — Senna aurieulata, Roxb. 354. 
Eng. : — The Tanner’s Cassia. 
Vern .: — Tarwar, tarver (H. & B.) ; Tarota (Berar); 
Taravada (Mar.); Awal, aval (Guz.); Awla (Cutch); Avari, 
ammera-verai, avirai (Tam.) ; Tangedu, thagedu, tangar (Tel.) ; 
Avareke, tengedu, tang&di-gida, 4vara-gid£, taravadagida (Kan.) ; 
Avara, ponnaviram (Mah). 
Habitat: — Wild in the Central Provinces, the Western 
Peninsula and South India. 
