N. 0. LEGUMINOS*. 
487 
Use : — A decoction of the leaves is used to allay headache in 
malarious fevers (Dymock). The sum is used medicinally in 
South India (I. L. Stewart). 
433. B. retusa, Earn, h.f.b.i., ii. 279, Roxb. 345. 
Vern. : — Kandla, kanalla, kuyral, gwayral ; Semla(H. ; Rural 
(Pb.) ; Laba (Kol.) ; Thaur (Gond.) ; Nirpa (Tel). 
Habitat : — N. W. Himalaya, from the Beas eastward, ascend- 
ing to 4,500ft ; Central India. 
A middle-sized, deciduous, erect tree. Bark Jin. thick, dark 
brown, with vertical cracks, often much scored by the cut of 
gum-collectors. Wood red, with irregular dark-red or black 
patches and streaks near the centre, hard, having pale bands or 
soft tissue, which alternate with dark bands of firmer texture. 
Branchlets long, slender, pendulous. Leaves round-cordate, 
cleft only at the very tip ; coriaceous, broader than long, 3-8in. 
across, 9-11-nerved, glabrous beneath. Flowers numerous, in 
pedunculate corymbose racemes, forming long terminal panicles, 
sometimes 1ft. long, clothed with fine, grey, silky, pubescence, 
the lower corymbs springing from the axils of reduced leaves. 
Pedicels long, slender, lower ones ascending, J-fin. long. Bracts 
and bracteoles minute, caducous. Calyx-limb splitting into 2 or 3 
segments Jin. long. Bud ovoid. Petals oblong, clawed, hairy 
outside, blade orbicular, pale-yellow, marked with dark purple 
veins. Fertile stamens 3 ; style produced, stigma large. Pod 
late— dehiscing, 4-6 by lin., generally broader at top, glabrous 
Seeds 6-8. 
Use : — The gum is used as an external application to sores. 
It is considered as an emmenagogue and diuretic by some 
native practitioners (Du. Emerson). 
434. B. Vahlii, W. and A. Prodr. 297 ; h.f.b.i., 
ii. 279. 
Syn. : — B. racemosa, Vahl., Roxb. 346. 
Vern. Taur (Pb.) ; Malghan, maljan, mahi, marraim, jallaur 
(H.) ; Chehur (B.) ; Sihar, maul mahalarj (C. P.) ; Borla (Nepal) ; 
Shioli (Uriya) ; Adda (Tam.) ; Chamboli, Chambuli. (Dec.); 
