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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
1| in. Calyx gibbous, laterally compressed, somewhat 2-lipped. 
Petals reflected, red at first, fading to lead colour, very unequal 
in size, 2 lower the largest, claw winged. Staminodes 5 emargi- 
nate scales. Stamens 10, anthers ovate. Ovary at the top of 
the Staminal-column, 5-lobed, 5-celled. Styles awl-shaped, 
more or less united, slightly thickened and stigmatose at the 
tips. Ovules many in each cell. Follicles spirally twisted, 
cylindric, beaked, pubescent. 
Parts used : —The fruit, root, and bark. 
Uses : — The fruits are made into liniment for sores of the 
ear (A in si ie.) 
They are also internally administered for colic, according 
to the ancient “doctrine of signatures.” 
Sloane speaks of the juice of the root having virtues in 
empyema and stomach affections. Leaves are used in Jamaica 
for decoction for clysters (Murray.) 
In the Konkan it is used in snake-bite and diabetes 
(Dymock). It is also used in an thelmintic diarrhoea, dysent- 
ery. Pose of powdered bark one wal®' to 1 tola. 
The root and bark used by the Santals for the same purposes 
as the fruit (Revd. A. Campbell.) 
According to Moodeen Sheriff, it is demulcent and mild 
astringent, and useful with other drugs in the griping of bowels, 
and flatulence of children. 
182 . Pterospermum suberfolium, Lam , h.f.b.i., 
i. 367. 
Syn. : — P. canescens, Roxb. 512. 
Sans. : — Moochukunda. 
Vern.: — Muchukunda, muskunda (B.); Baalo giriuga 
(Uriya) ; Lolagu (Tel.) ; Taddo (Tam.) ; Muchkand (H. and B.) ; 
Naji (Burm.j ; Velenge’, venangu (Sing.) ; Muchkund (Marathi). 
Habitat : — Western Peninsula (Konkan and Kanara). For- 
ests of Orissa. The K. Circars ; the Carnatic; Burma. Ceylon, 
dry low country. 
* A wa l =■ 4 to 6 grains (Jeweller’s weight in Western India.) It is the 
scarlet seed of Adenanthera pavonin, Linn. 
