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The leaves are prescribed as an infusion for piles in the 
N. W. P. (Atkinson). 
In Chutia Nagpur, the powdered root is given when from 
weakness the patient vomits his food ; the fruit and leaves are 
also used medicinally (Revd. A. Campbell). 
444 . Acacia Farnesiana , Willd., h.f.b.i., ii . 292 . 
Syn. : — Mimosa farnesiana, Linn. Roxb. 421. 
Vern. : — Vilayati kikar, Vilayati babul, Gu-kikar (H.) ; Guya 
babla(B.); Vedda vala, Piy-Velarn (Tam.); Pivelam (Mai.); 
Piyi-tumma, Kampu-tumma, Naga-tumrna (Tel.); Jali (Kan.); 
Gfli-babhul (Mar.) ; Talbaval (Guz.) ; ICue b&wal (Sind.) 
Habitat : — Himalayas to Ceylon. 
A thorny shrub. Bark light brown, rough. Wood hard, 
close-grained ; sapwood white ; heart-wood irregular. Branches 
striate, glabrous, curved with pale-brown lenticels. Stipular 
spines white, straight, i-fin. long, hard, sharp, divaricate. 
Leaves bipinnate ; rachis l-2in. long, angular, pubescent, with 
a small raised gland about the middle of the petiole ; pinnae 4 — 8 
pair, f-lyin. long ; leaflets 10-20 pair, 3 — 4 by — sVn., linear, 
acute, glabrous, sessile ; base rounded, oblique. Flowers bright- 
yellow, powerfully sweet-scented, in globose fasciculate heads 
^-in. diam.; peduncles J-lin. long, on axillary nodes with a ring 
of small membranous bracts near the middle or close to the 
flowers. Calyx campanulate, very minute. Corolla lin. long ; 
lobes short, triangular. Pod nearly cylendric pointed at the ends, 
2-3jin. long, by ^in. broad glabrous, brown, veined, indehiscent. 
Seeds in 2 series, embedded in dry, spongy tissue (Talbot). 
Use : — The bark is astringent and often used as a substitute 
for A. arabica bark. A. farnesiana used as an adjunct to 
aphrodisiacs, in the treatment of spermatorrhoea (Calthrop). 
The bark is used as an astringent in the form of a decoction. 
Tender leaves bruised in a little water and swallowed ; said to 
be useful in gonorrhoea. 
The oil of Cassia flowers contains benzaldehyde, salicylic acid, methyl 
salicylate, benzyl alcohol, an aldehyde, which has an odour resembling that 
of decyl-aldehyde and forms a semicarbazone melting at 97° and a Ketone, 
which has an odour of violets and forms a semicarbazone melting at 148°, 
Eugenol is not present.— J. Ch. S. 1903 A. I. 845. 
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