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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
root in cases of piles and fistula ; the first are given in powder, 
in a little milk, to the quantity of two pagodas ' 3 weight or more 
during the day (Ainslie). 
Tn the Concan, the leaves are rubbed into a paste and applied 
to hydrocele ; and their juice, with an equal quantity of horses’ 
urine, is made into an anjan, used to remove films of the con- 
junctiva by setting up an artificial inflammation (Dymock). 
The juice of the leaves is used to impregnate cotton wool 
for a dressing, in any form of sinus (Calthrop). 
443 . M. rubricaulis, Lam. h . f . b . i ., ii . 291 . 
Syn. : — M. mutabilis, Roxb. 423. 
•Fern. Agla-agl, kingli, kacheyta (H.) ; Ral, rianb, didri&r, 
arlu, alia, kikri (Pb.) ; Hajern (Sind.) ; Aradi (Nepal.) ; Sibriti 
(Lepcha) ; Chilatti (Bhil.) ; Shia-kanta, kuchi-k&Dta (B .) ; 
Sega janum (Santal). ; Alla (Raj.) ; Hujiru (Sind.) ; Bida, cban- 
dra, undra, ventra (Tel.). 
Habitat Western Himalaya, Kumaon, westward to Mi- 
shuir and Bhotan, and through India Proper. 
A large, straggling, prickly, pubescent shrub or small tree. 
Bark grey. Wood hard, sapwood yellowish white, heart-wood red. 
Branches, petioles and peduncles, armed with short, curved, 
sharp yellowish prickles. Stem attaining 5in. diam. Leaves 
bipinnate, 5-7in. long; stipules Jin. long, setaceous; pinnae 
5- 12 pair, shortly stipulate ; the rachis without prickles ; leaflets 
6- 12 pair, membranous, J- T g by Jin., obliquely-oblong, shortly 
cuspidate, glabrous above, slightly pubescent beneath ; midrib 
excentric ; petiolules very short. Flowers 4-merous, pink, 
in fascicled, axillary, pedunculate heads; peduncles l-2in. 
long, slender, pubescent, crowded at the ends of the branches ; 
bracts small, setaceous. Calyx minute ciliolate. Corolla Jin. long, 
shortly 4-lobed. Stamens 8, long-exserted. Ovary stalked, 
glabrous. Pod 3-4in. by Jin., stipitate glabrous, falcate, separat- 
ing in 4-10 1-seeded joints from the sutural frame which is 
usually without prickles (Talbot). 
Use In Chamba, the bruised leaves are applied to burns, 
and the fruit is also officinal (Stewart). 
* A Pagoda weighs 54 grains. 
