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Uses : — The fruit is supposed to possess astringent, cooling 
and stomachic properties; from it a spirit is distilled and a 
pleasant sherbet. The leaves are used as an application to 
pustular eruptions, and the buds are also prescribed by native 
practitioners. An infusion of the bark is used as a demulcent. 
(Dr. Stewart). 
The Santals use the root-bark for rheumatism (Revd. A. 
Campbell). 
190. G. scabrophylla, Larrik. h.f.b.i., I. 387., 
Roxb. 430. 
Vern. : — P4ndhari dh&man, khatkhati (Mar.); Darsuk 
(Kan.). 
Habitat: — Tropical Himalaya, Garwhal, Sikkim, Mysore, 
from Gujrat straight to Behar, Sub-Himalaya tract and outer 
valley, from the Jumna eastward, Oudh forests, Northern 
Circars, Assam, Pegu, Upper Burma (Ava), Chittagong ; com- 
mon in Dun and Saharanpur forests (Kanjilal). 
A shrub ; branchlets, underside of leaves and inflorescence 
clothed with soft, tawny tomentum. Leaves 3-6 by 4 in., often 
slightly lobed, base 3-5-nerved, secondary nerves not arched, 
scabrous above, pubescent beneath, roundish ovate, irregularly 
serrate. Brandis says the leaves are 4-9 in. long, ovate or 
obovate, tertiary nerves distinct beneath. Petiole |in. ; 
peduncles short, l-4in., axillary ; stipule subulate. Flowers 
large, 2-3 on each peduncle, 4 in. Blade of petals wbife, ovate, 
larger than often twice the length of the claw. 
Cymes umbellate, says Maxovell T. Masters (Hook.) ; 
pedicels diverging, longer than the peduncles. Bracteoles 
linear-subulate, deciduous. Flower-buds obovate-oblong, ribbed. 
Sepals linear-lanceolate, pubescent ; Petals notched, half the 
length of the sepals, or less. Gynophore glabrous, edge 
villous, 5, small tufts of hair at base, between petals. Fruit a 
globose drupe, not lobed, |-f in. diam., rind brown, cruBtaceous, 
hairy; stones 4, 1-2-seeded, in sweet, yellowish' viscid pulp. 
Parts used : — The leaves and root. 
