N. O. STERCUI.IACEifi. 
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A moderate-sized tree, with thick longitudinally cracked 
hark. Wood light red, moderately hard. Brancblets and in- 
florescence densely clothed, with fine ferruginous or tawny stel- 
late hairs. Leaves distichous, 2-4 in., from a rounded base 
ovate-oblong, acuminate, often irregularly lobed in the upper 
part, upperside glabrous, underside white or yellowish, filled 
with fine stellate hairs. Flowers yellowish-white, sweet-scented, 
peduncles short, axillary, sometimes bearing 2-3 flowers ; brac- 
teoles, deciduous, linear. Sepals linear, fleshy, brown tomentose 
4-5 in. long, in. broad. Petais a little larger then the sepals, 
but brown and thinner, white. Capsule 2-3 in. long, f in. diam., 
attenuate into a stalk in. long, tapering at apex to a point, 
brown velvety. Seeds winged, numerous. 
Use : — The flower made into a paste with kavjiha (rice 
vinegar) forms an application for hemicrania (Dutt). 
In theConcan, the flowers and bark of this, and P. acerifo- 
liurn, are charred and mixed with karoalaand applied in suppur- 
ating small-pox. fDymock.) The sweet scent of the flowers is due 
to the small glands on the outer side of the thickened sepals. The 
sepals are much used by the Bombay High-class ladies in their 
hair on account of the lasting fragrance of the glands. tK. R. K ) 
183. P. ctceri folium, Willd ., h.f.b.i., i. 368, 
Roxb. 158. 
Sansk : — Karnikara. 
V ern. : — Kanak-champa, kaniar, katha-champa (H.) ; Mach- 
kunda (Santal) ; Laider (Michi.) ; Karni-kara, kanak-champa 
,Bomb.) ; Matsa kanda (Tbl.) ; Toungpetwun, tha-majam wei- 
soke (Burm.). 
Habitat : — From the N. W. Himalaya in Kumaon, to 
Chittagong and Concan. 
A tall evergreen tree. “ Bark thin grey, smooth. Sap- 
wood white ; heartwood soft to moderately hard, red. Pores 
scanty, small oval or elongated, generally sub-divided, visible 
on a longitudinal section. Medullary rays fine, very numerous, 
undulating, not prominent, uniform, equidistant. Innumerable 
very fine concentric lines (Gamble). Leaves obovate, polymer- 
