N. O. ROTACE^?. 
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A tree, armed with prickles. “ Bark greyish brown ; 
young stems covered with thick, conical prickles from a corky 
base. Wood moderately hard, close-grained, white. Pores 
small, uniformly distributed, often in short radial lines. 
Medullary rays fine, short, numerous” (Gamble). Brandis 
says that it is an aromatic evergreen tree. Gamble says 
“It is a pretty tree. When young, the stems are leafless at 
the top, where the long pinnate leaves are put out umbrella- 
fashion.” Leaflets 5-10 pair, glabrous, broadly crenate, with 
large glands in the sinus, base very oblique ; Cymes terminal, 
very large, glabrous (J. D. Hooker). Seeds aromatic, says 
Gamble. 
Use. — The carpels can hardly be distinguished from those 
of 7. Rlietsa, and are used similarly in medicine (Watt.) 
228. Toddalia aculeata, Pers. ii.f.b.i., I. 497. 
Syn. : — Scopolia aculeata, S m. Roxb. 207. 
Suns.: — Kanchana ; dahana. 
Vern. : — Kanj (H.) ; Daban, Lahan (Rajputana); Meinkara 
(Nepal) ; Saphijirik (Lepcha) ; Milkaranai, Kandvi, (Tam).; 
Konda-Kashinda. (Tel.) ; Jangli-Kali-mirchi (Bomb.). Kudur- 
Miris (Sinhalese.) 
Habitat : - Throughout India, in Java, Sumatra, China and 
the Phillippines and Mauritius. Subtropical Himalaya, from 
Kumaon eastwards to Bhotan ; Khasia Mountains, and through- 
out the Western Peninsula. Ceylon, bushy places, from sea- 
Ifevel upto 6,000ft., very common. 
A large scandent shrub, the branches covered with prickles, 
on broad corky cones, often lin. high. Bark brown, thin, 
with prominent lenticels. Wood porous, yellowish white. 
Pores moderate-sized, often undivided, uniformly distributed. 
Medullary rays very fine, uniform and equidistant, bent where 
they touch the pores (Gamble). Prickles on branchlets sharp. 
The woody conical lenticels terminal, in short curved spines. 
Young shoots rusty, tomentose. Leaflets crenulate, greatly vary- 
ing in length, in the semi-evergreen scrub, near Madras li-2in., 
