N. 0. CELASTRIN EM. 
327 
Habitat : — Western Peninsula, Aunamally Hills (S. India), 
Ceylon between 1,000-4,000 ft., rather rare. 
Vern : — Trimen : Sinhalese, Kokun, Wana-potu. 
A very large tree, much-branched. Bark rough, corky, 
grey, bright yellow within. Wood pale, yellowish brown, 
smooth, light, readily splitting. Young parts glabrous. Leaves 
25 - 4 in., obovate, cuneate at base, rounded or refuse at apex, 
entire or faintly serrate, coriaceous, glabrous, paler beneath and 
there punctate with numerous, minute, glandular dots, each 
covered with a red scale. Petiole about sin. Stipules very 
minute, triangular, persistent. Flowers dull, yellowish-brown, 
jin., in axillary or extra-axillary panicles, much shorter than the 
leaves. Pedicels glabrous. Bracts minute. Calyx glabrous, 
lobes very shallow. Petals broadly ovate, or rounded, concave, 
thick-dotted, within stamens shorter than the petals Disk fleshy, 
dark green. Capsule nearly 4inches, oblong-ovoid, bluntly 
trigonous, valves thick, coriaceous, glabrous. Seed compressed, 
over 5in. long (with the wing) ; wing broadly oblong, straight 
on one side, oblong, veined, orange-yellow. 
Use : — The inner yellow bark is employed medicinally. 
It is also made into a kind of snuff, which excites copious 
secretion, and is considered beneficial in headache (Watt). 
281. Gelastrus paniculatus, Willd. h. f. b. i., 
i. 617. Roxb. 209. 
Syn. C. multiflora, and C. nutans, Roxb. 
Habitat Tropical and sub-tropical Himalaya, Punjab 
and throughout the hilly districts of India ; Burma, Ceylon. 
Sans: — Jyotishmati. Kangunj. 
Jyotishmati is also one of the Sanskrit names of Cardios- 
permum helieaeabum. 
Vern. Mkl-Kangni (H. and Bomb.) ; Mal-Kakni (Oudh, 
Kumaun) ; Kahundan rangul (C. P.) Kangoni, pigavi (Mar.) ; 
Rugfim (Lepcha; ; Valuluvai, atiparich-cham (Jam.); Mal- 
kanguni-vittulu Tel.); Sankhfi (Pb.) ; Kariganue (Kan.) Mal- 
kanguni-ka-jantar (Dec.) 
J* Indraji : — ( Porebunder and Guj. ) M&Iakankana ; 
