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INDIAN MEDIOINAD PLANTS. 
Applied locally in apthie. The fruit is diuretic ; an infusion 
of the bark is used as an astringent gargle. The seeds made 
into a paste with vinegar are said to be efficacious as a local 
application to wounds inflicted by poisonous animals (Dr. 
Emerson). 
432. B. racemosa, Bam. Diet. i. 390 ; h.f.b.i., 
ii. 276, Roxb. 345. 
Syn. -B. parviflora, Vahl. 
Sans. : — Svetakanchan. 
Veni. : — Kachnal, gurial, tliaur, astha, makkuna, mania, 
dhorara, marvil, ghila(H.); Banraj, banraji ( B.) ; Kaiinu tKol.); 
Beriju (Santal.); Ambhota (Uriya); Mania, dhorara (C. P.) ; 
Kosundra, taur (Pb.) ; Astra, bosha (Gond.) ; Jhinja (Ajmere) ; 
Amba bhosa (Bhil.) Are-ka-jhar (Duk.); Areka, are-maram (Tam.); 
Ari, are, adda (Tel.); Apta, apata, Wanraja, Seyara (Mar.) ; Supta 
(Kan.). 
Habitat : — Met with in the Sub-Himalayan tract, in the Pun- 
jab, Oudh, Bengal, Central and South India. 
A small, crooked, deciduous, bushy tree. Bark yin. thick, 
blackish, very rough, with deep vertical cracks. Wood brown, 
hard, with irregular dark patches near the centre ; in alternate 
concentric wavy band of dark hard and pale soft tissue, of nearly 
equal widths, the soft bands anatomosing (Gamble). Bran- 
ches drooping. Leaves broader than long, small, deeply cleft, 
7-9-nerved, rigidly coriaceous, lobes rounded, clothed more or 
less densely beneath with grey pubescence. Racemes short- 
peduncled, lax, terminal and leaf-opposed, y-£ft. long, with 
densely grey downy rachises ; pedicels y-yin. ; erecto- patent. 
Calyx-tube turbinate, not more than T Vn. long ; limb y-jin. 
not splitting up. Petals oblanceolate, yellow (J. G. Baker), 
as long as the Calyx-limb, unequal. 1 Flowers small, white,’ says 
Brandis. Pale-white, says Kanjilal. Stamens 10, all perfect, 
united at the base. Filaments and anthers with long hairs. Stig- 
ma sessile. Pod thick, generally curved, 4-12in. long', 4in. 
broad, not venulose, falcate, firm, glabrous, turgid, stalk above 
an inch long. Seeds 10-20. 
Parts used : — Gum and leaves. 
