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INDIAN MEDIOINAL PLANTS. 
branches. Young parts covered with grey stellate hairs. Leaves 
downy beneath, 4-6 in. by 3 in. diam., rounded, cordate, pal- 
mately 5-7-nerved, more or less lobed, midlobe longest, glabrous 
above or with thinly scattered hairs, closely felted beneath ; 
petiole 1-2 id. Flowers numerous, white or pink, in. across, 
polygamous, generally dioecious, in much-branched axillary or 
terminal panicles. Bracteoles 4-6, oblong, spathulate, downy, 
nearly as long as the Calyx ; Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, seg- 
ments ovate, acute, accrescent and spreading in fruit, Petals 
clawed, adnate to the staminal-tube, longer than the Clayx, 
obcordate. Stamens monadelphous, the tube shorter than the 
petals and split halfway into 5 segments, each bearing at the 
apex 3-5 sessile anthers. Capsule subglobose, 3-valved. Seeds 
reniform, furrowed. 
Use -. — Among the Santals, the leaves are pounded and 
made into a paste and applied to the body for pains. They 
are also chewed, when there is a deficiency of saliva. (Revd. A. 
Campbell.) 
175. Adansonia digitata, Linn, h.f.b.i., i. 348. 
Roxb. 513. 
Vern. — Gorakh amli, amali, (H.) ; kalp briksh (Ajmere); 
Hathi-khatyan (Dec.) ; gorakh chintz, choyari chinch (Bomb.) ; 
Marjath Anai-puliyaroy Parutti, (Tam.) ; Sima-chinta (Tel.) Go- 
rakh Amli (Porebunder) ; Rukhdo, Chor Amli (Guj.) ; Gorakh 
Chinch (Marathi) ; Katu-imbul (Sinhalese). 
Arab. : — Hujed. 
Eng. : — The baobab or monkey-bread tree of Africa. 
Habitat : —Cultivated in various parts of India and 
Ceylon. 
A deciduous large tree, 60-70 ft. high, very handsome, 
though stumpy when in foliage. Trunk short, thick, of great 
diam. Stem grey at base, rapidly narrowing upward, like a 
cone, throwing out very widely spreading branches. Bark soft, 
glaucous, thick. Leaves digitate, glabrous, pubescent beneath, 
when young ; leaflets generally 5-7, 3-4 in. long, obovate or 
