INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
31 fl 
268. A. Cncullata Roxb ., h. f. b. i., i. 560. 
Vern. : — Amur ; Latini ; Natmi (13.). 
Habitat : — Lower Bengal, in the Sunder bunds, and in 
Nipal. 
A glabrous middle-sized, at times a large, evergreen tree, of 
slow growth, with smooth branches. Bark thin, grey. Wood 
hard, close-grained, but apt to split; heartwood red. Leaves 6-10in. 
Leaflets 2-4 pair, falcate, very oblique at base, 3-5in. long; 
opposite or sub-opposite. Male panicles drooping, about as long 
as the leaves, with numerous diverging branches, sparingly 
lepidote. Female racemes few-flowered, supra-axillary. Petio- 
lule i-fin., or terminal one longer. Male flower ^in., yellow. 
Bracts caducous, 2 at the base of the calyx. Calyx 3-lobed. 
Petals 3, anthers 6. Staminal-tube turbinate or sub-globose. 
Seeds covered with a fleshy, bright orange-coloured aril. 
Capsule globose, 2Jin. diam. Ovary 3-celled ; cells 2-ovuled. 
3-valved . 
Use : — Leaves when bruised applied to reduce inflammation 
(Prain’s Flora of the Sunderbuns, p. 292). 
269. Walsura piscidia, Roxb, H. F. B. I., 
i. 564. ' 
Vern. : — Walasura, wallursi (Bomb.); Walsura (Tam.); 
Chadda-vakku, walsurai, kanna-kampu (Tara.) in Ceylon ; Vala- 
rasi, walurasi (Tel.) (Sinhalese) Kiri-Kon, Mol-petta. ; ( Tamil ) 
Chedavakku. 
Habitat : — Western Peninsula ; Malabar and Travancore. 
Trimen : Habitat — Malabar and Travancore, very common in 
the low country of Ceylon. 
A glabrous, generally middle-sized, at times a large, tree, 
bark fin. ; greyish brown, tessallated in somewhat erect angular 
squares. Wood hard ; sapwood reddish brown, heart-wood 
dark red, much streaked with black, close-grained. Leaves 
trifoliate, 2-7in. Leaflets pinkish, says Trimen, 2-3in. long, 
elliptic, obtuse, often retuse, glabrous, shining, pale beneath. 
