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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
elliptic or ovate, sometimes obovate-oblong ; blade 5-9, petiole 
J-Jin. loDg, nearly opposite, the uppermost often alternate ; 
1-2 glands near base of midrib ; underside when full-grown, as 
a rule, soft tomentose, nearly glabrous, secondary nerves 10-20 
pair. Flowers bisexual, dull yellow, in erect terminal panicles, 
the lower branches in the axils of leaves. Calyx-limb, a shallow 
cup, hairy within, segments 5, broad, ovate, acute. Fruit 
l|-2in. long, with 5 coriaceous brown wings, f-lin. broad, 
and marked with numerous horizontal lines running from the 
axils to the edges, which are thin and irregularly crenulate. 
Use : — A docoction of the bark is taken internally in atonic 
diarrhoea, and locally as an application to weak indolent ulcers. 
(Ph. Ind.). 
496 . T. paniculata, Roth, h.f.b.i., ii. 448 . 
Syn. Pentaptera Paniculata, Roxb. 384. 
Vern. : — Kinjal (Bomb.) ; Pe-karakai (Tam.) ; Neemeeri (Tel.) ; 
Honal, huluva, hulve, hunab (Kan.). 
Habitat : — Malabar, lower hills, from Bombay to Cochin; 
Nilghiri and Kurg Mountains. 
A very large deciduous tree. Bark Jin. thick, dark-brown, 
peeling off in flat flakes. Wood grey, with darker heart-wood, 
very hard, new growths rusty-tomentose. Leaves 4-7in., 
subopposite, upper alternate, base cordate, two glands generally 
present near the base of the midrib beneath. Petiole in. 
long, rusty-pubescent, sessile, close set in large spreading 
panicles, the front edge ovary growing out into a wing which 
is -f-lin. broad. 
Use : — The country people use the juice of the fresh flowers 
rubbed with Parwel root (Cocculus Villosus) as a remedy in 
cholera, and in poisoning with opium, 4 tolas of the juice with 
an equal quantity of guava bark juice is given frequently. In 
parotitis, the juice with ghi and Saindhav (rock salt) is applied. 
In cholera, about 4 tolas of the juice 'with an equal quantity of 
Parwel root is given every hour (Dymock). 
497 . Galyeopteris floribunda, Lam. h.f.b.i. ii. 449 . 
Vern. : — Bandi-murududu (Tel.); Baguli, Ukshi (Mar.); 
Kokoranj (Hind.) ; Marsada, Baguli (Can.) 
