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INDIAN MEDIOINAI, PLANTS. 
Pars. : — Badavard. 
A small green spiny undershrub, with erect branches, 
more or less glandular. Young branches terete, striate, spines 
exceeding the linear leaflets. Leaves 1-3-foliate ; leaflets 
elliptic or linear, acute ; petiole often foliaceous. Flowers small, 
pale, rose-coloured. Sepals 5, oblong-lanceolate, half as long 
as the petals, deciduous, imbricate. Petals 5, closed, caducous, 
imbricate. Disk short, inconspicuous. Stamens 10, inserted 
on the disk ; filaments filiform, naked anthers oblong. Ovary 
sessile, 5-cornered, 5-celled, tapering into a subulate style. 
Stigma simple ; Ovules, 2 lateral at the base of each cell, pen- 
dulous from ascending funicles. Fruit a pubescent”, 5-cornered 
capsule of 5 1-seeded cocci, which dehisce along the ventral 
suture and separate from a horny endocarp. Seeds punctulate, 
erect, compressed, broadly oblong, testa mucilaginous, albumen 
horny ; Cotyledons broad, flat, ovate. 
Part-’ used : — The leaves, twigs and juice. 
Uses : — The leaves and twigs are supposed to possess 
cooling properties (Watt). 
It has a great reputation as a suppurtative in cases of 
abscesses from thorns, etc. It is also used for cooling the mouth 
in stomatitis ; the juice being boiled with sugar-candy until, 
quite thick, and a small quantity allowed to dissolve in the 
mouth frequently. The juice is thought to prevent Buppuration 
when applied to open wounds tDymock). 
It is largely used by the native practitioners as a bitter 
and astringent tonic (S. Arjun). 
It is used in Sindh and Afghanistan as a popular remedy 
for fever among the hill people (Pharmacop. Ind.) 
Dose of the cold infusion of the stem, and leaves 5-10 
lotas. The infusion is thus prepared: — Take of stem and 
leaves in sufficient quantity, cut to pieces and add lfi times the 
quantity of cold water ; allow it to remain to be infused for 
12 hours ; then strain” (Dr. ViRji Jhina.) 
208 . F. Bruguieri, 1).C. h.f.b.i., i. 425 . 
Vern. : — Spalagbzai (N. W. Himalaya, Trans-Indus); Dha- 
ma, damiya, dramah (Pb. and Sindh.) ; Dhamaso (Guz.). 
