494 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Habitat : — Punjab, Sind, Rajputana, Guzerat, Bundelkhand 
and the Deccan. 
A moderate-sized, thorny tree, with slender grey branches. 
Bark f-lin. thick, grey, rough, with deep longitudinal fissures 
and horizontal cracks. Wood very hard. Sapwood large, 
whitish, perishable ; heart-wood purplish-brown. Branches and 
branchlets armed with scattered, broad-based, -g-iin. long, coni- 
cal prickles. Leaves bipiunate, pinnae and leaflets opposite, 
pinnae 2, l-2in. long ; leaflets 7-12 pair, sessile, J-gin., ligulate, 
grey, glabrous, rigidly coriaceous, caducous. Flowers in short, 
pedicelled, axillary spikes, 2-3in. long and terminal panicles. 
Corolla -/jin. long. Stamens 10, free, exserted, anthers gland- 
tipped. Pod coriaceous, indehiscent, pendulous, linear, 5-10in. 
long, filled with a dry sweetish pulp, contracted between 
seeds. Seeds 10-15, dull, brown, oblong. 
Use : — The pod is considered astringent in the Punjab 
(Stewart). 
The bark is used in the Central Provinces as a remedy for 
rheumatism (Watt). 
441. Dichrostachys einerea, W. and A. h.f.b.i., 
ii. 288 . 
Syn. : — Mimosa einerea ; Linn. Roxb. 422. 
Sans. : — Viravriksha. 
Vern.: — Vurtuli (H.) ; Kanlai, kunrat, ldieri (Mhairwara); 
Khen (Raj.) ; Segum kati (Mar. and Gond.) ; Vadatalla, vadatara 
(Tam.) ; Veturu, yeltu (Tel.). 
Habitat : — N. W. Provinces ; Western Peninsula. 
A thorny, much-branched shrub or small tree. Bark grey 
or light brown, very thin, deeply fissured vertically, peeling 
off in thin flakes. Hear-twood red, streaked with black, extremely 
hard (Gamble). Spines axillary, strong, straight, sharp, 
often bearing leaves. Leaves bipinnate, l£-2£in. long. Stipules 
subulate from a narrow base, pinnae 4-10 pair, with stipitate 
