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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
10-14 pair, alternating with shorter, intermediate ones ; tertiary 
nerves prominently reticulate. Flowers bisexual. Pentamerous, 
greenish white, in large terminal panicles, with triangular bracts. 
Petals obovate, narrowed into a claw, contorted in bud. Staini- 
nal-tube cup-shaped, 10-cleft, each segment with 2 short, fleshy 
teeth, the anthers between them on a short filament. Capsule 
smooth, l-2in. long, 5-celled, valves separating from the dissepi- 
ments, which remain attached to the thick spongy axis. Seeds 
numerous in each cell, flat, imbricated, winged at both ends. 
Reproduces itself by root suckers. 
Uses ■ — The bark is officinal in the Indian Pharmacopoeia 
where it is described as astringent, tonic and antiperiodic. 
In intermittent fevers and general debility, in the advanc- 
ed stages of dysentery, in diarrhoea, and in other cases requi- 
ring the use of astringents, it has been used with success. 
Of the powdered bark, a drachm twice daily. This is the 
best form of administration. 
The decoction forms a good substitute for oak-bark, and 
is well adapted for gargles, vaginal injections and enemas. — 
(Ph. Ind.) 
273 . Chi cltrassia tabular is, Adr. J uss., h.f.b.i., 
i . 568 . 
Syn. : — Swietenia Chickrassia, Roxb. 370. 
Eng. : — The Chittagong wood. 
Vern.: — Chikrassi, pabba, dalmara (B.) ; Boga poma 
(Ass.); Pabha pubha (Bom.); Pabba, palara, mil (Mar.); 
Aglay, a gal, agle-marum, elcutharay (Tam.) ; Madagari verubu 
Chittagong chettu, Chittagong karru, cheta kum karra (Tel.) ; 
Dovedale (Mai.) ; Dalmara, lal devdari (Kan.) ; Maiu (Hydera- 
bad). Hulanhik (Sinhalese) ; Aglad Kaloti (Tamil.) 
Habitat : — Low country, Ceylon ; Western Peninsula, from 
the Concan to the Coorg ; also in Bombay, Malacca, Assam, 
Eastern Bengal, Chittagong, Forests of Burma, from Shan Hills. 
A very large tree. Bark reddish brown, deeply vertically 
