N. O. LEQOMINOSiE. 
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or given as a draught beaten up in mi]k (Dymock). The 
bark is a powerful astringent and demulcent. It may be used 
as a substitute for oak galls. It lias been found a valuable 
remedy in prolapsus ani, as an external applicant in leucorrhcea 
and has been recommended as a poultice for ulcers, attended 
with sanious discharge (Ph. Ind.) 
446. A. Leucophloea, Willd., h.f.b.i., it. 294, 
Roxb. 421. 
Vern. : — Safed kikar, reru, raunj, karir, nirubar, ringa, rinj, 
rohan-i, jhind (H.) ; Safed-babul (B) ; Sharab-ki-kikar, hivar 
(Duk.j ; Goira (Uriya) ; Safed kikar (Pb.) ; Tumma, reunja, rinj a 
(Gond.) ; Haribaval (Guz.) ; Hivar, pandharya bdbhuliche jliada 
(Mar.); Vel-velam, vet-vel, vevay-lam (Tam.); (Tella-tutna) 
(Tel.) ; Bili-jali, togral naibela, vel-vaila, bilijali topal (Kan.) 
Habitat Plains of the Punjab, Central and S. India, and 
Rajputana. 
A moderate-sized or large deciduous tree. Bark gin. thick : 
colour varying with age, grey and smooth when young, dark- 
brown, almost black and rough when old ; exfoliating irre- 
gularly in patches and strips. Wood hard ; sapwood large, 
heartwood reddish brown, or nearly brick-red, white or grey. 
Leaves bipinnate, 2-3in. long ; main rachis grey-pubescent, 
with sessile, cup-shaped, absorption-glands between each pair 
of pinnae, on the grooved upper-side ; pinnae 5-15 pair, f-l£in. 
long, nearly sessile ; leaflets 12-25 pair, j[in. long, linear, oblong, 
obtuse, coriaceous, grey, glabrous or pubescent. Flowers pale- 
yellow or white, in small globose heads, i-fin. diam., arranged 
in large, terminal, tomentose panicles ; peduncles shoot with a 
ring of bracts about the middle. Calyx minute, £in. long. 
Corolla twice as long as the Calyx ; lobes subacute. Pods sessile, 
4-8 by 4 — t 3 o in., flat, slightly curved, brown-tomentose, thickened 
on the sutures, subindehiscent, 10-20-seeded ; seeds compressed, 
black areol/ite (Talbot). 
Part used . — The bark. 
Use : — The bark partakes more or less of the astringent 
properties of A. arabica (Watt). 
