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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
dissepiments remaining attached to the valves. Seeds imbricate, 
oblong winged, compressed ; cotyledons plano-convex. Exal- 
buminous. 
Found common in the dry regions of Ceylon. There is a 
good tree in the Ratnagiri Club garden. It yields the well- 
known satin wood, very hard, heavy, fine-grained, yellow, 
(reddish-brown rather, K. R. K .), with a satiny lustre. It is the 
principal timber from Ceylon (TrimenV 
Parts used : — The bark and leaves. 
Use: — The astringent, bark is sometimes prescribed (l)y- 
mock). Leaves are applied to wounds (Beddome) : also used 
in rheumatism (C. P. Gaz. 118). Watt ii. 270. 
N. 0. OLACINE-3E. 
276. Olax seandens, Roxb. H. F. B. I., I 575 ; 
Roxb. 55. 
Vern.: — Dheniani (H.) ; Koko-arn ( B. ) ; Rimmel (Kol) ; 
Bodo-bodo-ria (Yriya); Hund (Santal) ; Harduli ; Urchirri (Mar ) ; 
Kurpodur ; marki ; malle, turka-vepa; bapanamushti ; kotiki 
(Yel). Kakundan (Jabalpur) ; Kadalracnhi (Tam.). 
Habitat : — Tropical Western Himalaya in Kumaon ; Oudh 
Berar ; Central and Southern India. Rohilkund, Tenasserim, 
Burma, Ceylon (dry country rather common.) 
A large, rambling shrub, sometimes a climber. Bark grey, 
iin. thick, deeply cleft vertically, vessels large. Wood porous, 
yellow-white, soft (Gamble.) Trunk as thick as a man’s thigh. 
A few stout, thorns on the older branches. Branches terete, 
more or less puberulous, prickly, stout, curved. Branchlets, 
petiole and midrib puberulous. Leaves distichous, ovate, 
oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 2-3in. long, yellowish-green, 
glabrous or sometimes puberulous beneath. Petiole *V|in. 
Racemes solitary, axillary half the length of the leaves. Pedun- 
cles erect, twice the length of the minute bracts. Flowers many, 
white, sweet-scented, small, |in. Bracts ovoid caducous. Buds 
ovoid. Calyx puberulous or glabreseent. Petals 3-5-6, irre- 
gularly cleft. More or less cohering, says Brandis ; linear, acute, 
recurved. Fertile stamens 3, anthers oblong. Staminodes 2-fid. 
