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coloured to dark brown. Wood pinkish white, turning dark- 
brown on exposure, moderately hard ; wavy concentric bands 
of soft tissue alternating with darker coloured bands of firm 
tissue. Leaves 3-6in. long, rather large than broad, some- 
times overlapping at the inner margins ; petiole l-ljin. long. 
Flowers deep-rose in paniculate or corymbose racemes ; pedicels 
J-jin. long, tomentose ; buds obovoid or oblong, acute, 
strongly 5-ribbed. Calyx-tube ^-fin. long. Limb nearly twice 
as long, slit on one-side, 5-toothed at the apex. Petals red- 
dish, l£-2in. long, oblanceolate, clawed, with a distinct midrib 
and fine straight lateral veins. Stamens usually 3, fertile, 
slightly shorter than the petals ; staminodes filiform, of varying 
lengths, oblique. Pod 6-10in. by l-fin., on a tomentose 
stipe, g-lin. long, thick pointed, slightly falcate, greenish- 
purple, pubescent along the sutures, late in dehiscing. Seed 
12-15 (Kanjilal). 
Parts used — The bark, root and flowers. 
Uses : — The bark or root and flowers mixed with 
rice water, used as a maturant for boils and abscesses (T. N. 
Mukerji). A decoction of the astringent bark is recommended 
as a useful wash in ulcers (U. C. Dutt). The bark acts as 
an astringent in diarrhoea (Barren). The root carminative ; the 
flowers laxative. (Watt). 
436. B. variegata, Linn., h.f.b.i., ii. 284, Roxb. 
344. 
Sans. : — Kovidara ; Kanchanara. 
Vern. — Kachnar, koliar, kural padrian, khwairaal, gurial, 
gwiar, barial, kaniar, kandan, khairwal (H.) ; Rakta-kanchan 
(B); Kurmang (Mechi.) ; Singya (Kol.) ; Jingya (Santal ) ; Taki 
(Nepal); Rba (Lepcha) ; Kanchan, ragta kanchan (Mar.); 
Kanchan (Concan) ; Kovidar (Bomb.) ; Segapu-muntliari (Tam.) ; 
Kanchivalado (Kan ) ; Boraru (Uriya). 
Hahitat : — From the foot of the Western Himalayas and 
Sikkim, throughout India. 
A middle-sized, deciduous, erect tree, with moderately stout, 
glabrescent branchlets. Bark grey, with vertical cracks. Wood 
greyish-brown, with irregular patches of harder and darker 
