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Fern. : — Miranda, padriun, bakra (Pb.); Bakra, chauli, 
shanria (N.-W. P.) ; Chauri (Oudh) ; Karkava, irkuli, chelup- 
pabmarara (Tam.) ; Nerija, booligi (Tel.) ; Miri, tlianki (Kol.) ; 
Newri (Santal). The leaves — Bhutapala (Mar.) ; Tamrug;Aran 
tandig bhukas (Bomb.), Burkas (Konan). 
Habitat : — Throughout the hotter parts of India. 
A moderate-sized or large tree, often with reddish branch- 
lets. Bark dark-grey, smooth, blood-red inside, exuding when 
cut a profuse watery sap from the cambium layer. Leaves 
opposite or sub-opposite ; less frequently alternate 2-6 by l-3in., 
elliptic ovate-oblong or obovate, acuminate, crenate subcoria- 
ceous, glabrous, dark green and shining above, glaucous 
beneath. (Whence the specific name “ Glaucum”) main lateral 
nerves about 10 pair, slender; petiole §-lin. long, channeled. 
Cymes axillary, dichotomous, | in. long, peduncle l-2ain. long, 
often red. Flowers |in. diam., whitish, pale, yellowish-green, says 
Trimen. Calyx 4-5-cleft, segments obtuse. Disk fleshy. Petals 
4-5, about ! l 0 in. long, oblong. Stamens 4-5, short, inserted under 
the edge of the disk ; filaments recurved. Ovary adnate to the 
disk. Style very short. Fruit a dry obovoid drupe, §-§in. long, 
1-celled, 1-seeded, tipped with persistent style, mostly sterile, 
(reproduction chiefly by root-suckers — Kanjilal). 
Flowers all the year, says Trimen. 
Found in Ceylon, dry country. 
Trimen : — (Singhalese) Naralu ; (Tamil) piyari ; Perun- 
Piyari. 
Parts used. — The leaves, root and bark. 
£7se:--The powdered leaves have a powerful sternutatory 
action, and are used as a fumigatory to rouse women from 
hysterical syncope, and as a snuff to relieve ordinary headache. 
(S. Arjun). The fresh root-bark, when rubbed into a paste 
with water, is applied by the Natives to remove almost every 
sort of swelling (Roxb'. The root is a specific against snake- 
bite, and the bark is used in native medicine and said to be 
a virulent poison. (Watt,) 
