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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
coriaceous, glabrous, often pilose beneath when young, petiole 
|-£in. Racemes axillary, simple, rarely falsely panicled by the 
suppression of leaves towards the ends of the branches (C. B. 
Clarke), more or less pubescent. Pedicels i-^in. long. Bracts ^in., 
lanceolate or linear, deciduous. Flowers white ; “ sometimes 
pink or bluish,” says Brandis. Calyx-lobes 5, triangular lanceo- 
late, xVsin-i connate at the base. Corolla | in or ^-§ in. long, 
elongate ovoid, pubescent without ; lobes 5, short, recurved. 
Stamens 10, bypogynous ; filaments subulate, ciliate, with two 
filiform appendages, called “ horns,” at the apex ; anthers open 
by terminal pores. Ovary 5-celled, ovules many in each cell. 
Capsule £in. diam., globose, loculicidally 5-valved ; seeds many, 
minute, linear-oblong (Kanjilal). 
Use : — The young leaves and buds are poisonous to goats, 
they are used to kill insects, and an infusion of them is applied 
in cutaneous diseases (Gamble). 
706. Rhododendron arhoreum, Sm. h.f.b.i. ill., 
465. 
Syn : — R. puniceum, Roxb. 373. 
Vern. : — Ardawal, mandal, chiu, aru bras, broa, chacheon 
(Pb.) ; Chhan (Hazara) ; Ardawal, mandal, chiu, bras (Hima- 
layan names) ; Trikhgandera (Trans-Indus) ; Billi, pumaram 
(Nilghiris) ; Brus (Kumaun); Bhorans, guras, ghonfis, taggu, 
lalguras (Nepal) ; Etok (Lepcha). 
Habitat : — Temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir to Bhotan, 
and the Khasia Mountains. 
An evergreen tree, 25ft, Bark ] in. thick, reddish brown, 
peeling off in small flakes. Wood soft, reddish-white, or 
reddish-brown, close and even-grained, apt to warp and shrink. 
Leaves crowded at end of branches, 4-6in. long, lanceolate or 
elliptic-oblong, acute at both ends, coriaceous, glabrous above, 
rusty-tomentose or covered with small silvery scales beneath. 
Nerves and midrib prominent beneath, depressed above ; buds 
viscous. Flowers large, veiy showy, commonly deeply crimson, 
rarely pink or nearly white, in corymbose fascicles at the ends 
of the branches. Pedicels O-to £ the length of the Corolla-tube. 
