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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Habitat : — Generally distributed, and frequently cultivated 
in the warmer parts of India and Ceylon. 
A small tree, a native of Tropical America, but fre- 
quently cultivated in the warmer parts of India and Ceylon. 
Bark brown rough. Wood white or yellowish or light brown, 
soft, even-grained. Annual rings faintly marked. Pores mod- 
erate-sized, fairly numerous, often subdivided. Meduallary 
rays moderately broad to broad, not 'numerous, conspicuous 
in the silVer-grain on a radical section. The tree is easily 
grown and propagated, “ planted or run wild,” adds Gamble. 
Herbaceous portions tomentose. Leaves from an unequal-sided 
base, obliquely cordate, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, acuminate, 
serrate, scabrid or glabrescent above, pubescent beneath ; base 
5-7-nerved ; petiole short. Flowers numerous, small, yellow and 
purple in terminal and axillary panicles, which are twice the 
length of the leaves ; or in multifid cymes. Flower-buds globose. 
Calyx 1 Jin. bell-shaped, stellate-hairy ; sepals ultimately re- 
flexed ; petals exceeding the Calyx, claw concave. 5 Petaloid 
Staminodes alternating with 5 filaments each, bearing several 
anthers. Anthers concealed in the hood of the petals. Capsule 
5-valved, lin. long, oblong obtuse, or ovoid, woody, with obtuse 
black tubercles, resembling a mulberry. 
Part used : — The bark. 
Use : — In Martinique, the infusion of the old bark is 
esteemed as a sudorific, and as useful in cutaneous diseases and 
diseases of the chest (Lindley.) 
The bark is tonic and demulcent, and is used with benefit 
in some of those cases in which calumba and gentian are indi- 
cated (Moodeen Sheriff.) 
The inner bark is esteemed as a remedy for elephantiasis 
in West Indies (Watt.) 
N. 0, TILIACEJE. 
188. Grewia tilicefolia, Vahl. h.f.b.i., i. 386, 
Roxb. 431. 
Sans. : — Dharmana, Dhanurvriksha ; Dhanvan. 
