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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
surfaces ; ‘base rounded; nerves prominent beneath. Petiole 
fin., transversely wrinkled. Rachis extra-axillary angular, 
covered with brownish strigose hairs. Flowers Jin. diam. 
Male flowers: — Calyx minute, pilosulous, cup-shaped, obscurely 
4-5-lobed. Petals ^in , glabrous, oblong, acute. Stamens as 
long as the petals, filaments glabrous, flat, strap-shaped ; anthers 
2-celled. Rudiment of pistil conical Female flowers: — Calyx 
and Corolla as in the male. Ovary obovoid, pilosulous, surround- 
ed by 5 hypogynous abortive stamens. Stigma subsessile, coni- 
cal. Ovules 2, collateral- Fruit,l-ljin. olive-shaped, somewhat 
compressed, bright orange-red, rugose and strigose externally, 
smooth within. 
Use : — The oil is highly esteemed in the treatment of 
rheumatism (Drury). 
N. 0. CELASTRINEiE. 
279. Euonymus tingens, Wall. H. F. B. I., 610. 
Verm. : — Kungku (N -W. P.) ; Newar, kashri (Nepali) ; 
Chopra ; mer mahan (Simla). Skiosh (Bassahir) ; 
Bhambeli, Roini (Jauns.) 
Habitat : — Western temperate Himalaya, alt. 6-1, 000ft. 
From Sutlej to Nepal ; Simla. 
A tree 16-20ft. Branches cylindric. Leaves lj-3in. by 
§-lin., thick, coriaceous, lucid, rugose aud dark green above, 
very pale beneath, ovate-lanceolate, sharply serrate. Peduncles 
compressed. Flowers usually pentamerous. Cymes fascicled ; 
petals abruptly clawed, nearly orbicular, coarsely crenulate, Jin., 
yellowish, with purple veins. Fruit Jin. across, nearly rbund, 
4-5-angled. The flowers of this species are sometimes tetrame- 
rous (Lawson). 
Uses: — It is considered by the Natives to be useful in 
disesaes of the eye (O'Shaughnessy). 
280. Kokoona zeylanica, Thwaites, H, F. B. I., 
i. 616. 
