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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
236 . Atlantia monophylla, Correa, h.f.b.i., i . 511 . 
Syn. : — Limonia monophylla, Linn. Eoxb. 363. 
Sans. : — Atavi-jarnbira. 
Vern . : — Makad-limbu (Mar.); NargunilUriya'; Adavi-nimma 
(Tel.) Kathe-elumichcham-param, Katyalu (Tam.); Kau-nimbe, 
adavi-nitnba (Kan.); Mal-naranga (Mai.) ; Jangli-nimbu (Dec.); 
Mdtangnir (S. Konkan.) 
Habitat Sylhet at the foot of the Khasia Mountains; 
'throughout the Western Peninsula, from Konkan and Coro- 
mandal southwards. Ceylon, not uncommon towards the north 
of the Island; in dry regions common. Tamil natne in 
Ceylon : — Perunkuruntu (Trimen). 
A small tree or shrub, with numerous rigid branches, the 
elder ones armed with short spines, young parts glabrous. 
Wood very hard and heavy, close-grained, yellow. Leaves 
lj-3in. ; rhomboid-lanceolate, acute at base, obtuse, deeply 
notched at apex, glabrous, thick, veiny ; petiole short, slightly 
pubescent, with one or two linear or setaceous, stipular scales at 
base. Flowers Jin., rather crowded in axillary umbels or 
corymbs. Pedicels iin., glabrous, bracts small, ciliate. Calyx 
glabrous, irregularly split to base. Petals white obovate-oblong, 
obtuse, recurved. Stamens 8 ; filaments completely connate 
into a long tube and sometimes adnate to petals at base ; anthers 
broadly ovoid ; ovary oblong, glabrous, 4-celled, style short, no 
gynophore. Berry globular-ovoid, 4in., with a long apiculus, 
4-celled, 4-seed ed. 
Uses : — “ The berries of this yield a warm oil which is, in 
native medicine, considered as a valuable application in chronic 
rheumatism and paralysis (Ainslie.) 
In the Concan, the leaf juice is an ingredient in a compound 
liniment used in hemiplegia (Dymook.) 
237 . Citrus medica, Linn, h.f.b.i., i. 514 . 
Habitat : — Valleys along the foot of the Himalaya, from 
Garhwal to Sikkim; the Khasia Mountains, Garrow Mountains, 
