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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
N. 0. MALPIGHIACE^E. 
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203. Iliptage Madablota, Gaertn. h.f.b.i., 
I. 418. 
Syn. : — Gcertnera racemosa, Roxb. 360. 
Sans : — Madbavi, Atimukta. 
Vern. Kampti, naadmalti ; lmthee mookta (H.); Endra, 
chopar, benkar (Pb.); Madhablata (B.); Haladwail, Madhumalati, 
Madhavlata, Madbavi. (Mar.); Aita-lugala (N. W. P.) ; Shem- 
pati (Nepal) ; Baromali (Uriya) ; Madhavi tige, vadla yarala, 
potuvadla (Tel ) 
Trimen : — (Singhalese) Puwak-gedi. 
J. Indraji : — (Porebunder and Gujrat) Rakatpiti, Ragatpiti, 
Madhavi. 
Habitat : — Throughout the hotter parts of India. Ceylon, 
low country, moist and dry regions. 
A large straggling shrub, trunk stout and erect, often of 
considerable size. Branchlets, young leaves and inflorescence 
hoary or adpressed-tomentose. Bark brown, thin, exfoliating in 
small thin flakes. Wood reddish-brown, very rough, soft and 
moderately hard, with darker patches in the centre (Gamble). 
Branches stout. Leaves 3-fiin., oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate or cordate-acuminate : coriaceous, petioled, shining 
above. Racemes with densely adpressed pubescence, l-6in., 
axillary, usually forming a leafy panicle. Flower |-lin. diam., 
very fragrant, white. Sepals obtuse. Petals twice as long, 
fimbriate, the 5th petal dashed with yellow at base. Carpels 
with a central wing between the 2 lateral. Wings of carpels 
coriaceous, middle one, one or two inches long, linear-oblong or 
oblanceolate, the two outer or lateral narrower or shorter, 
spreading half as long. Seeds subglobose. Cotyledons thick, 
unequal. 
Parts used : — The leaves and bark. 
Uses: — The leaves are esteemed useful in cutaneous dis- 
eases (Watt). 
The bark is a good sub-aromatic bitter (Graham). 
