758 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
l-2in. diam., yellow and sweet when lipe, subglobose, glandular 
or rusty, usually 4-8-seeded ; seeds embedded in a viscid pulp. 
Fruiting Calyx persistent, fin across, lobes patent, villous within. 
Uses : —The fruit and the bark possess astringent properties. 
The juice of the unripe fruit makes a good application to fresh 
wounds. It is full of tannin, and is therefore a useful domestic 
astringent, so plentiful as to be at the door of even the poorest 
hut. An oil extracted from the seeds is also used in native 
medicine, in dysentery and diarrhoea with success. Bark is 
used in intermittent fevers ( Honnigberger). 
It is used in dysentery and diarrhoea with success. The 
infusion of the fruit is used as a gargle in aphthae and sore- 
throat (Kanai Lai De Bahadur). 
The seeds are preserved by the country people, and given 
as an astringent in diarrhoea (Dymock). 
It is officinal in the Pharmacopoeia of India. 
729 . D. melanoxylon, fioxb., h.f b . i ., hi . 564 ; 
Roxb. 412 . 
Syn. : — D. Wightiana, Wall. 
Sans. : — Kakundoo. 
Vern . : — Tendu, kendu, abnu (Hind.) ; Kend, kvou (Beng.) ; 
Turari, tummer, tuinki (Gond.) ; Tumbi, tumbali (Tam.) ; Tumi, 
tumid (Tel.). Tamrug (Guz). 
Habitat : — Deccan Peninsula. 
A large, or moderate sized, deciduous tre'e, attaining 50ft., and 
6ft. in girth, greyish black, cleft into small rectangular 
plates, showing the black inner bark in the clefts. The bark 
shows alternate layers of brown and black, so that as it wears 
the surface shows partly of either colour. Wood hard, reddish- 
brown, with an irregular black heartwood. Young parts covered 
with grey or rusty tomentum. Leaves alternate and subopposite, 
says Kanjilal ; mostly opposite, says Brandis; thickly coriaceous, 
hairy or glabrous on the underside when full grown, elliptic 
or ovate ; blade 3-12in., petiole fin., secondary nerves 6-10 pair, 
as well as the reticulate tertiary nerves raised on the upperside. 
