N. 0. ItUTACE*. 
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oval or oval-oblong, or lanceolate, rounded at base, obtuse or 
acute, entire or nearly so, glabrous, except the pubescent mid rib 
beneath ; conspicuously gland-dotted. Petiole gin., twisted- 
Flowers fin., on short pubescent peduncle, 1-3 together in the 
axils. Calyx woolly-pubescent, lobes 5, shallow, rounded. Petals 
5, oblong-linear, recurved. Filaments hairy. Ovary 5-celled. 
Stigma large, capitate. Berry yellow, globose, pyriform, over 
1 in. long, smooth. Seeds several, large, compressed (Trimen’. 
Rather common in the low country, Ceylon ; Sikkim, Bhutan 
Khasi Hills, Tenasserim, Western Ghats, South India. 
Darjeeling, N. E. Himalaya. 
Trimen gives Sinhalese name : — Wellangiriya. 
Part used : — The root. 
Use : — In the Concan, the root is given to cattle suffering 
from bloody urine, or bloody fluxes from the abdomen. When 
on a visit to Goa, I observed that the country people made use 
of the root as an alterative tonic (Dymook.) 
235. P. longispina. Hook. H. F. B I., i. 511. 
Vern : — Ban Nimbu (Sundribuns). 
Habitat: — Eastern Sunderbuns, at Baniakhali (Plain) 
Malacca. 
An erect, glabrous shrub. Branches stout ; spines long, 
straight, below petioles, opposite and alternate, sometimes 2in. 
long. Leaflets oblong, subacute, 3-4in., base cordate. Petiole 
very short. Flowers fin. long, solitary, small ; pedicels very 
short. Calyx-lobes obtuse, 5. Petals |in., broad, oblong, 
obtuse. Stamens 10, short, equal, glabrous, equalling the linear 
anthers. Anthers narrow, with a long apiculus. Style stout, 
cylindric ; ovary 3-4-celled, 4-ovuled, stipitate. Fruit a berry, 
3-4-angled, 1-lfin. long, between globose and ovoid ; 3-4-celled. 
Ovules superposed in pair. Rind of fruit thick, coriaceous, 
glandular. Pulp 0. Seeds 2-4 in each cell ; oblong, com- 
pressed, narrowed at base into a short beak. 
Use: — Fruit used in cases of colic Praia’s (Flora of the 
Sunderbuns, p. 291). 
