N. 0. R0BIACE.3S. 
647 
Habitat : — Khasia Mountains and Assam- Mountains of the 
Western Peninsula. 
A suffrutescent herb, erect, glabrous, or stem petiole cymes 
and leaf-nerves beneath puberulous. Stipules small. Leaves 
2-5 by l- 25 'in., very thin, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, long- 
acuminate, narrowed into the petiole. Cymes l-3in. diam., flat- 
topped, glabrous or pubescent. Cyme-branches sub-umbellate, 
very spreading. Bracts absent. Calyx-teeth very short. Corolla 
white, glabrous round at the tip, in bud £in., mouth not dilated ; 
lobes very short, obtuse, keeled at the back. Capsule i-iin. 
diam., pedicelled. Seeds many, minute, angled. 
Use : — The root is intensely bitter and may be used as a tonic 
Popularly believed to be a remedy against the bites of venomous 
snakes, mad dogs, &c. 
599. Musscenda frondosa, Linn. H.F.B.I., III. 89 ; 
Roxb. 187. 
Vern . : — Asari (Nepal); Tumberh (Lepcha) ; Bhfita-kesa, 
Laudacbuta (Bomb.) ; Shivardole (Mar.) ; B'ebina (H.) ; Vellaellay 
(Tam.). 
Habitat : — Tropical Himalaya, from Nepal eastward. Assam, 
Khasia Mountains, and the Western Peninsula, from the Concan 
southwards. 
A large shrub, tomentose, hirsute or nearly glabrous. Bark 
grey, smooth', but granular. Wood white, soft, but moderately 
hard, close and even-grained. Leaves sessile or petioled, ellip- 
tic oblong or ovate, acuminate ; stipules long or short, often 
2-fid. Cymes contracted or open, softly silkily-tomentose ; 
bracts and caducous calyx-lobes elongate-lanceolate, much larger 
than the ovary, twice the length of the ovary or longer. Corolla 
orange-yellow, pubescent, silky or hirsute ; lobes broadly ovate, 
acute or acuminate. Berries obovoid, glabrous ; areole broad. 
Uses: — In the Concan, Ja tola of the root is given with cow’s 
urine in white leprosy. 
In jaundice, 2 tolas of the white leaves are given in -milk 
(Dymock). 
