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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
odjj one near the base. by iVi' 11 - linear, oblique at the base, 
quite rounded at the tips, membranous, pale green above, 
glaucous beneath ; midrib somewhat diagonal. Panicles 3-4ft. 
long, interrupted with leaves at the base of the ramifications ; 
peduncles 1-lJin. long, slender, downy, in fascicles of 2-4, lower 
in the axils of the leaves, upper bracteate ; bracts T V^in. loDg, 
obliquly ovate-cordate, deciduous. Heads f-Jin. diam. 55-60- 
flowered, brick-red in bud. Flowers j-in. long. Calyx deep 
crimson, about join long, tubular, deeply 5-toothed ; teeth 
subacute. Petals acute, white with a reddish median line, 
slightly exserted ; stamens numerous, much exserted, at first 
white, withering yellow ; filaments very slender. Pod 3-4 by 
xVli n -> straight, thick, fleshy ; 6-10-seeded, slightly idented 
between the seeds. Sutures broad- 
Use: — The pod is acid, bitter, and has a singular pungency ; 
its qualities are allowed to be deobstruent and detergent and 
expectorant ; it is commonly ordered in cases of jaundice and 
other biliary derangements, and is, besides, used by the Indians 
like soap-nut for washing the head. The small leaves are 
frequently put into pepper-water to keep the bowels open or 
work off bile (Ainslie). 
The soft parts of the dried berries contain 5 p. c., and 
those A. concinna, var, rugata 4 p. c. of the Saponin C, u H sa 
O J0 .— J. Ch. S. 1901 A. I. 648. 
452. A. intsia, Willd., h.f.b.i., ii. 297. 
Syn. : — Mimosa intsia, Linn Roxb. 424. 
Habitat : — The Tropical Himalayas, Eastern and Western 
Peninsulas. 
Vern. : — Arhai-ka-b6l (Sutlej) ; Kartar (Kumaon) ; Kondoo- 
janum (Santal.) ; Kundaru (Kol.) ; Harrari 'Nepal) ; Payirrik, 
ugroemrik (Lepcha) ; Korinta, Korendam (TelJ ; Chilari (Mar.) 
A large prickly climber, at first with 5 vertical lines of 
hooked prickles, afterwards deeply 5-fluted along those lines, 
suberect and bushy in early youth. Bark pale grey. Wood 
white soft, porous. Leaf-rachis 5-7in. long, angled ; with a gland 
near the base, and 0 or 2-3 below the upper pinnae ; pinnae 6-8 
pair, 2-3in. long. Leaflets 8-12 pair T s 0 -iin. by i-sln., ligulate, 
