N. 0. LE0UMIN0S®. 
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Parts used : — The seeds, leaves and flowers. 
Uses:— Described by Hindoo writers as cooling and useful 
in inflammatory affections ; the oil of the seeds is given in white 
leprosy, and the powdered seeds, as an astringent ; the flowers 
and leaves are applied in local inflammations, such as boils, 
erysipelas, &c. (Dutt). 
The seeds are astringent, given in piles, diarrhoea, gonor- 
rhoea, &c.; the oil extracted from them is said to cure white 
leprosy. The flowers are considered by the natives as a cooling 
medicine, and are externally applied to boils, eruptions, and 
swellings. The leaves are regarded as useful in ophthalmia, 
and afford good fodder for cattle. ( Baden-Powell’s Punjab 
Prod. s. v. Acacia speciosa, page 345.) 
458. Pithecolobium Bigeminum, Benth. h.f.b.i., 
ir. 303. 
Syn .: — Mimosa lucida, Roxb. FI. Ind. ii. 544. Inga bigemina 
Willd. 
Vern — Kachlora (H.). 
Habitat :- -Forests of the outer Himalaya, from the Ganges 
eastward and of South India. 
A large tree ; wood light brown, soft, subterete. Branchlets, 
common petioles and inflorescence rusty-puberulous. Pinnae 
and leaves long-petioled. Pinnae 2-3 pair ; leaflets of the lowest 
pinnae 1-3, of the terminal 3, sometimes 4 pair, elliptic, 
acuminate, glabrous, dark-green. Flowers cream-coloured, 
■jin. long to extremity of stamens, sessile or shortly pedicelled 
in 2-5-fid heads. Heads in slender, terminal or supra-axillary 
panicles. Pod. flat, not indented between seeds, 3-5 by fin , 
bright red within, curved into a ring or spiral. 
Use : — A decoction of the leaves is a medicine for leprosy 
and is used as a stimulant to promote the growth of hair. 
(Atkinson). 
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