N. 0. OLEAOEjE. 
763 
Habitat: — Tropical North-West Himalaya ; Terai of Oudh 
and Kumaun, Deccan Peninsula, from Rajmahal southwards; 
also in the hot lower hills. 
A large shrub, or scrubby tree, erect or climbing, says 
Brandis ; usually suberect, says Kanjilal. Branches smooth, 
grey ; branchlets pubescent. Leaves opposite, simple, entire, 
4 by 2^in., shortly acuminate, widest near the base, subcordate, 
or the upper ovate or elliptic, young, hairy and often tomentose 
on both surfaces, nerves distinct beneath, lower divaricate. 
Petiole i-fin. Flowers white, fragrant, in lax terminal tricho- 
tomous compound cymes, usually 10-20 flowers, not dense ; bracts 
Jin. linear ; pedicels fin. ; Calyx-lobes 5-6, as long as or shortly 
longer than the tube ; Corolla-lobes fin., lanceolate acute, 10 or 
12, as long as the tube. Berries one or two, ovoid, often 
.oblique, {-Jin. long by J-fin. broad, unsymmetric ellipsoid, 
generally of one carpel, black when ripe. 
Use : — The juice of the leaves is used, with pepper, garlic 
and other stimulants as an emetic, in obstruction of the bron- 
chial tubes by viscid phlegm. Seven leaves will furnish a 
sufficient juice for a dose. For young children, the juice of 
half-a-leaf and of four leaves 'of Agasta (sesbania grandiflora) 
may be mixed with two grains of black pepper and 2 grains 
of dried borax and given in honey (Dymoclc). 
The leaves are slightly bitter and astringent, and might be 
used as a tonic and stomachic. (S. Arjun). 
The Santals give a preparation of the plant in certain men- 
strual complaints (Revd. A. Campbell). 
735 . J . angusti folium, Vahl, h.f.b.i., iii. 598 , 
Roxb. 32 . 
Sans. : — Kanana mallikfi ; asphota ; vana malli. 
V evn . : — Mwari ; ban-mallika, (H.) ; chattu mallika-; caat- 
mallica (Tam.) ; Chiri-malle ; adevie mallie (Tel.); Katu-pitsjegam 
(Mai.). 
Habitat : — Dekkan Peninsula. Ceylon, in the lower Hills 
frequent ; common, especially in the dry regions, 
