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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
with honey. The leaves, boiled in gingelly oil and added to 
the pulverised bark, are considered a good remedy in Beri-beri. 
The bark is _asiringent, and yeilds a kind of gummy fluid. 
Leaves, ground and mixed with turmeric and ginger, are used 
as cataplasms for tumors (abscesses?) (Drury). 
N. 0. EBENACEiE. 
727. Diospyros montana, Roxb. h.f.b.i., iii. 555 ; 
Roxb. 415. 
Vern. : — Tendu, bistend (Hind.); Neori, bhori (Bundelkhand); 
Hirek, keindu, temru, pasendu (Pb.) ; Makar-tendi, banda, 
muchi tanki, yerra goda (Tel.); Tembhurni, govindu, lohari 
(Mar) ; Tendu, bulguni, Kalagunda, (Kan). 
Habitat : — From the Himalaya, throughout India (except 
Sindh and Northern Punjab). 
A large shrub, or small deciduous tree, often spinous. Trunk 
usually crooked covered with dark rust colored nearly smooth 
bark. Branches sometimes spinescent. Branchlets and young 
leaves softly tomentose ; branchlets soon glabrous. Bark thin, 
grey or greyishblack, rough, when old, exfoliating in small scales. 
Wood grey, often tinged with yellow or brown, streaked with 
narrow patches or darker colour, especially towards the centre, 
but no regular ebony ; heartwood soft to moderately hard. Graham 
Anderson pays, from Mysore, that the wood is difficult to cut with 
the axe (Gamble). Leaves bitter (Kanjilal), thinly chartaceous, 
ovateoblong, base rounded or cordate, blade 2-4in., petiole slender, 
jl-§-in. long, secondary nerves 6-8 pair, slender ; “ usually glab- 
rous, sometimes pubescent beneath ; or on both sides, venation 
in conspicuous beneath ” (Trimen). Flowers white, as a rule, 
4-merous. Male flowers velvety, shortly pedunculate, or nearly 
sessile, usually 2-8fid, segments obtuse, velvety on both sides. 
Corolla yin. long, campanulate, outside glabrous or pubescent; 
lobes short, spreading. Stamens 16. in opposite pairs, united at 
the base, the outer longest. Anthers lanceolate, awned, glabrous. 
Female flowers axillary, solitary, drooping, on short pedicels. 
Calyx segments ovate, yin. long. Corolla nearly glabrous out- 
