N. O. BUBIAOE.E. 
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or 3-nate. Leaves glabrous, villous or tomentose, opposite, or 3- 
nate, whorled, membranous, ovate or obovate-lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate ; blade 2-4in., petiole i-lin. ; stipules cuspidate, from 
a broad base, very deciduous. Flowers small, greenish, in 
shortly peduncled Cymes, l-l|in. . Calyx with 5 teeth. Style 
glabrous ; stigma 4-5-lobed. Drupe ^-liu. diam. ; fleshy, edible, 
smooth, subglobose or turbinated, with 4 or 5 smooth, broadly 
hard, 1-seeded stones. 
Use : — It is the Pindu and Pinditaka of Sanskrit writers, who 
consider the fruit to be medicinal, and describe it as streng- 
thening, cooling, and an expellant of phlegm and bile. 
The fruit is eaten when ripe, cooked or uncooked, or roasted. 
Another allied species, V. edulis, a native of Madagascar, is 
cultivated in gardens for its edible fruit. 
Contains sugar, gum and a small quantity of tannin, but no cyanogenetic 
glucoside or alkaloid was found. The dried seeds yield on extraction doth 
ether 14*01 p.c. of a semi-drying oil, with an iodine value of 15*07 — D.' Hooper. 
Annual Report, Indian Museum, Industrial Section, 1909-1910. 
610 . Ixcra Parviflora, Vahl. h.f.b.i., hi. 142 . 
Vern. : — Kotagandbal (Loha janzia, in Chutia Nagpur) (H.) ; 
iiangan (B.) ; Pete (Kol.) ; Merom met (Santal) ; Tellu, Kurwan 
(Uriya) ; Disti, kori (Gond.) ; Kurat, lokandi, narkurat, raikura, 
guavi-lakri, makri che-jhar (Bomb.); Kura (Konkan); Shulundu 
kora (Tam.) ; Kori mi pala, korivi pala, putta pkla, karipal, 
kachipadel, tadda pallu (Tel.) ; Gorivi, korgi, bennugorvi (Kan.) 
Habitat : — Western Bengal, Behar, Western, Central and 
South India. 
A small, evergreen, glabrous tree ; cymes sometimes slightly 
pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, hard, shining, sessile, or shortly 
pedicillate petiolate, oblong or ovate-oblong, with a rounded or 
nearly cordate base, 4-5in. long ; the reticulate veins nearly 
as prominent as the secondary nerves. Flowers white or pink, 
scented, in ample, nearly sessile, compound trichotomous cymes. 
Corolla glabrous, tube |-|in., lobes oblong, filaments short. 
Style very pubescent ; tip of Corolla ellipsoid in bud. Stigma 
subcapitate, simple or cleft. Fruit small, didytnous. Seeds 
plano-convex. 
