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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
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soft, close-grained, reddish-brown. Leaves 2-4 by l-2in., 
elliptic-oblong, narrowed into petiole, l-2in. long, quite entire, 
dark-green above, reddish-brown beneath, glabrous. Peduncles 
about ljin., erect, twice-branched, dichotomously in cymes. 
Flowers white. Calyx surrounded at base by bracteoles, 
connate into a cup, lobes 5 or 6, linear, £-f in. long. Petals 
bifid, the lobes divided into numerous capillary segments. 
Stamens numerous, anthers small, filaments slender. Ovary 
half-inferior, prolonged beyond the calyx into a fleshy cone, 
oue-celled. Ovules six, style slender, stigma 3-lobed. Fruit 
lin., conicovoid, girt at the base by the reflexed calyx- 
lobes. 
Use -. — The bark, mixed with dried ginger or long pepper 
and rose-water, is said to be a cure for diabetes (Rheede). 
N. 0. COMBRETACEiE. 
490. Termincilia Catappa, Linn, h.f.b.i., II. 444, 
Roxb. 380. 
Sans. : — Ingudi. 
Vern. : — Jangli-badam (H. and Bomb.) ; Nattoo-vadamcottay 
(Tam.) ; Vadam (Tel.) ; Adamarram (Mai.) ; Taru (Kan.) ; Badam 
(B.) ; Bengali-biidam, jangli-badama, hatb&dam (Mar.) 
Habitat : — Largely planted in all India, wild in the lowlands 
of Malaya and perhaps of the Transgangetic Peninsula. 
A tall, deciduous tree. Branches horizon tally- whorled. 
Stem often buttressed. Attains 80ft. Wood red, with lighter 
coloured sapwood, hard. Leaves beautifully green, turning red 
before falling ; clustered at the end of branchlets, glabrous ; 
petiole and midrib more or less hairy, obovate from a narrow 
cordate base, 6-10in. long, petiole short, stout and channelled. 
Flowers white, in slender axillary spikes, shorter than the leaf. 
Male flowers at the top, hermaphrodites below. Drupe glab- 
rous, ellipsoid, somewhat compressed, keeled all round, 2in. 
long, pericarp fibrous and fleshy, endocarp hard, oil expressed 
