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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Habitat: — Throughout the hotter parts of India, ascending 
to (3000ft. in the Himalayas ; Lower country, Ceylon. 
An annual, rarely perennial herb. Stem simple long or 
short, slender or robust, hispidly pubescent. Leaves lj-5in. ; 
petiole hispidulous or merely ciliate ; leaflets very variable in 
size in., sometimes arched a little upwards, 6-15 pair, 
oblong, nearly straight, nerves few or many, rather oblique, 
often waved. Peduncles very variable, £-5in., hispid, some- 
times swollen at the tip ; bracts rigid, setaceous, pedicels usually 
shorter than the sepals, sometimes equalling them or a little 
longer. Sepals usually much exceeding the capsule, rigid, sub- 
lanceolate, grooved, glandular and hispid. Petals usually twice 
as long as the sepals. Capsule elliptic, shining, cells few- 
seeded. Seeds with obliquely transverse, acute or obtuse 
tubercled ridges, very variable. 
Flowers throughout the year. Petals golden-yellow with 
red veins. 
Uses. — The seeds are powdered and applied to wounds, 
and with butter to abscesses to promote suppuration ; the root 
in decoction is given in gonorrhoea and lithiasis (Rheede). 
J. Indrajion the authority of Vaidya Rugnathji says that 
the leaves get as a diuretic when given internally rubbed with 
water. They allay thirst in bilious fevers. Dose }- 1 a tola 
(Virji Jhina). 
", V v V"' 
216. Averrhoa cav<rmhola, Linn, h . f . b . i ., 1.439. 
Roxb. 387. 
Sans : — Karma ranga. 
Vcrn : — Karinal, Khamrak Kamaranga (H) ; Katnarangd, 
Kamarak ( B i ; Kardai (Ass); Tamarak, Kamarakha (Guj); Ka- 
maraka(MarJ ; Khamaraka, karamara (Bom) ; Khamrak (Deck' ; 
Tamarata, tamarttamkay (Tam) ; Karomonga taraartakaya (Tel) ; 
Tamarat-tuka (Mai) ; Kamarak (Ran). 
Eng : — Gooseberry tree or Chinese Gooseberry (Balfouf). 
Habitat Cultivated in gardens throughout the hotter parts 
of India as far north • as Lahore. Common in Cylon gardens 
introduced from the New World by the Portuguese, says Trimen. 
