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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS 
Uses : — The bark is used by the Santals in fever (Revd. A. 
Campbell). Watt, ii. 129. 
608. C. 'parviflorum , Lamk, in. 136 ; Roxb. 
176. 
Syn. : — Webera tetrandra, Willd. 
Vern : — Kirni (Bomb.j ; Karai-cheddi (Tam.) ; Tsjeron kSra 
(Mai.) ; Balusu chettu, b&lsu (Tel.) 
Habitat : — Western Peninsula, from the Concan south- 
wards. 
A rigid, glabrous shrub ; branches stiff, spreading ; spines 
numerous, axillary or subaxillary, straight, stout and sharp. 
Wood hard, close-grained. Spines l-2in. long. Leaves glabrous, 
crowded on shortened lateral shoots, small, ovate, obovate or 
orbicular-obtuse, f-lin. long, rather coriaceous, dirty-green when 
dry, opaque, base cuneate ; stipules small, with long cuspidate 
points ; petiole slender, T Viin. long. Cymes £-|in. Peduncle 
and pedicel slender, short or long. Flowers 4-merous, yellow- 
ish, in many-flowered peduncled cymes. Calyx-teeth minute. 
Corolla-tube broad, campanulate, ^in. long, a little longer than 
lobes, “ subglobose lobes obovate,” says J. D. Hooker. Style 
glabrous, stigma capitate, tuberculate, “ globose,” says Brandis. 
Fruit yellow, edible, subquadrate or obcordate subdidymous, 
Jin. diam., enclosing 2 hard stones. “ Spines sometimes three- 
fold ” (Roxburgh). 
Use : — A decoction of the edible leaves, as well as the root 
of this plant, is prescribed in certain stages of flux, and the last 
is supposed to have anthelmintic qualities, though neither have 
much sensible taste or smell (Ainslie, Mat. Med. ii. 63). 
609. Vangueria Spinosa, Roxb. h.f.b.i., III. 136. 
Roxb. 180- 
Sans. : — Pindu, Pinditaka. 
Vern. : — Alu (Mar.). 
Habitat : — From Northern Bengal to Canara. Common in 
the Ghats, in Bombay and throughout the Konkans, Khandesh, 
Bengal, Tenasserim and Burma. 
A small handsome tree, or large bush, thorny. Spines simple 
