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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
long ; petiole Flowers small, numerous, fasciculate or 
inbracteate racemes, inflorescence in bud, enclosed in imbricate 
deciduous scales. Calyx-tube very short, segments 4 or 5, 
oblong. Petals 5, equal, stamens 10, rarely indefinite, anthers 
versatile. Ovary with 2 ovules. Pod turgid, very rugose, 
indehiseent, subsessile, with thick valves, J-lin. long, seed 
generally 1, exalbuminous, filling the cavity of the tree pod. 
Use -.— The root is purgative. A lotion is made from the 
leaves boiled in cow’s milk, which, mixed with honey, is applied 
externally in scabies, leprosy and other cutaneous diseases. 
An oil is also prepared from the seeds and used for the same 
purpose (Rheede). 
428 Hardwickia pinnata, Roxb. h.f.b.i., ii. 270 
Roxb. 378 . 
Vern. : — Mat&yen Samprani (Travancore) ; Kolavu (Tinnev- 
elly) ; Genue (Manjarabad). 
Habitat : — The ghats of Kanara, Travancore and Carnatic. 
A very large, unarmed tree. Wood moderately hard ; sap- 
wood large ; heartwood dark-red, or reddish-brown, exuding a 
red, sticky resin. Leaves, abruptly pinnate, with few leaflets. 
Leaflets 4-6, alternate, petiolate, not oblique, oblong, rigidly 
coriaceous, acute, 2-4in. long, venulose, the upper of the up- 
permost pair sometimes apparently terminal ; midrib central 
veining pinnate; petiolules l/6-l/4in. Panicles copious, axil- 
lary and terminal, formed of dense slender, cylindric racemes ; 
pedicels spreading, l/24-l/12in. Calyx broadly campanulate, 
under 1/I2in long, wbitli a pair of minute adpressed bractio- 
les. Filaments twice as long as the sepals. Stigma minute. 
Pod turgid, l 1 -2in. long, obovoid or oblong, nearly or quite 
filled up by the seed, sublignose, rigid. 
Use : — The balsam of Hardwickia has been used in India 
for gonorrhoea and with as much success as copaiba Watt). — 
The oleoresin of Hardwickia pinnata was steam distilled and 34 per oent. 
by weight of oil was obtained. The oil was very thick and its specific gravity 
