N. O. 0LEA0EA5. 
767 
Habitat : — Cultivated throughout India. 
A small, deciduous tree, 30ft., often forming coppice, scabrid 
pilose. Bark Jin. thick, light brown, rough. Wood pale- red, 
of pale yellowish brown, moderately hard, close-grained. A 
well-known tree, with fragrant flowers, which open at night and 
drop off in the early morning. Kanjilal says the bark is 
grey or greenish-white, rough. Branches quadrangular. Leaves 
opposite, 4J by 2 Jin. or 3in., ovate, acute, coriaceous, covered over 
with stiff white hairs on the upper surface ; pubescent beneath, 
margin slightly recurved, entire or with distinct teeth, principal 
nerves conspicuous beneath. Base rounded or cuneate, petiole 
Jin., not articulated. Flowers sessile, 3-7 together in pedunculate 
heads, which are arranged in short trichotomous cymes ; bracts 
elliptical. Calyx-tube Jin., campanulate, minutely 4-5-toothed. 
Corolla-tube J-Jin. long, cylindric, orange-red. Limb white, 
spreading. Lobes 5-8, J-Jin. long, emarginate, contorted in 
bud. Anthers 2, subsessile, inserted near the mouth of the 
Corolla-tube. Ovary 2-celled ; ovule 1 in each cell, erect. 
Capsule J-Jin. long or fin., J-Jin. thick, orbicular, chastaceous. 
Splitting into 2 one-seeded cell§. Seeds exalbuminous, radical, 
inferior, colyledons flat. Flowers throughout the year, in the 
Konkan during the rains. 
Use : — The leaves, according to Sanskrit writers, are useful 
in fever and rheumatism. The fresh juice of the leaves is given 
with honey in chronic fever. A decoction of the leaves, prepared 
over a gentle fire, is recommended by several writers as a 
specific for obstinate sciatica (Dutt). According to the author 
of the Makhzan, six or seven of the youDg leaves are rubbed up 
with water and a little fresh ginger, and administered in obsti- 
nate fevers of the intermittent type, at the same time a purely 
vegetable diet is enforced. The powdered seeds are used to 
cure scurfy affections of the scalp (Dymock). 
In the Concan, about 5 grains of the bark are eaten with 
betelnut and leaf, to promote the expectoration of thick phlegm 
(Dymock). 
It is antibilious and expectorant, and useful in bilious fevers. 
(K. L. Dey). 
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