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INDIAN MED1UIN AL PLANTS. 
A large deciduous tree, with a dense spreading crown. 
Bark thin, grey, dark brown, exfoliating when old, in irregular 
woody scales. Wood brick red, soft, shining, even-grained, 
fragrant ; seasons readily ; does not split or warp (Gamble). 
Leaves paripinnate, l-2ft. long, generally glabrous. Leaflets 
8-30, usually opposite, 2-6 by f^in., lanceolate or ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, sometimes pubescent beneath ; margins 
entire, usually wavy ; base acute, somewhat oblique. Petiolule 
g-fin. long, slender. Flowers cream-coloured, scented like 
honey, in ample drooping panicles. Calyx short, lobes ciliate. 
Petals g-gin. long, free, oblong or ovate, ciliate. Disk hairy at 
the orange-coloured lobes. Stamens 5, inserted on the lobes of the 
disk. Stigma capitate, with a large depression at apex. Cap- 
sule septifragally dehiscent, f-lin long by 5 -§in. diam., oblong 
or oblanceolate, dark brown. Seeds reddish brown, light, with 
a submembranous wing at either end, about gin. long, Including 
the wings. 
Dun and Sharanpur, generally in marshy places.. Tropi- 
cal Himalaya, from the Indus eastward throughout the hilly 
districts of Central and Southern India. Burma. Absent in 
Ceylon. 
It is known as the red Toon. 
Parts used : — The bark and flowers. 
Uses : — The bark of this tree is a powerful astringent, and 
may be resorted to when other remedies of the same class are 
not available. Dr. Waitz (Dis. of Children in Hot Climates, 
p. 225) used with success an extract of the bark in chronic in- 
fantile dysentery. Blume attributes valuable antiperiodic vir- 
tues to it, and in this character it is favourably noticed by Dr. 
J. Kennedy (Ann. of Med. 1796, Vol. I, p. 387). Dr. M. Ross 
speaks of it as a reliable antiperiodic, and, Dr. J. Newton, as a 
good substitute for cinchona. The dose of the dried bark is 
about an once daily in the form of infusion. The powder of the 
bark was found by Dr. Kennedy to be of great service as a local 
astringent application in various forms of ulceration. (Ph. Ind.) 
The flowers, called gul-tur in Bombay, are considered 
emmenagogue. 
