482 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Habitat : — Central and Eastern Himalayas, Kumaon, East 
Bengal and South India. 
A large, erect evergreen tree. Wood light reddish-brown, 
soft. Occasional faint, brown concentric belts of soft tissues. 
Young shoots drooping and beautifully light to deep crimson. 
Leaves sessile or subsessile ; leaflets 3-6 pair, oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, acute or obtuse, 3-9in. long, rigidly sub-coriaceous. 
Flowers in dense corymbs, 3-4in. diam., orange on expanding, 
gradually turning bright scarlet. Peduncles and pedicels 
glabrous, coloured. Pedicels stout, i-zin. long, below the ob- 
long-spathulate, ascending, amplexicaul bracteoles- Sepals 
3 "|nn., obovate-oblong. Calyx-tube, gin. long, twice the length 
of lobes. Perfect stamens 7-8. Filaments thrice as long as 
the sepals. Pod 6-10 by 2in., valves hard, reticulate. Seeds 
4-8, oblong, compressed, l^in. long. 
Use : — The bark is much used by Hindu practitioners in 
uterine affections and especially in menorrhagia. A decoction 
of the bark in milk is generally prescribed (Dutt). 
Dr. Waring says that it proved useful in. a recurring haemorr- 
hoidal tumour in a member of H H. the Maharajah of 
Travancore’s family (B. M. J. and I. M. G., 1885, p. 260'. 
Flowers pounded and mixed with water are used in haemorr- 
hagic dysentery (Watt). 
430. Tamarindus indica, Linn., h.f.b.i., ii. 273, 
Roxb. 530. 
Sans. : — Tintidi ; Amlika. 
Vern . : — Amli ; imli (H.); Tentul (B. ); Amli; Chintz (Bomb.); 
Poolie (Tam.); Balam Poolie (Mai.); Chinta-chettu (Tel.); 
Karangi (Mysore). 
Habitat : — Cultivated throughout India, as far north as the 
Jhelam. 
A large, evegreen, unarmed tree. Bark £in. thick, dark 
grey, with longitudinal fissures and horizontal cracks. Wood 
hard, close-grained ; sap wood yellowish white, sometimes with 
