N. 0. APOCYNACEyE 
791 
Lasanulaasfirul-murr (Arab.); Zabane-kunjaskhe-talkh (Pers.) ; 
Kulappalai-virai, veppalei (Tam.); Amkucluvittuin (Tel.) ; Kood- 
saloo, Korchu (Kan). Letonkgyi (Barm.). The seeds are called 
Kadwa-indarjow (Hind, and Bomb.) ; Tita-indarjab (Beng.); 
Habitat : — Tropical Himalaya, from the Chenab westwards 
and throughout the drier forests of India to Travancore. 
A small, deciduous tree, glabrous, pubescent or tomentose. 
Bark £in. thick, brown, rough, exfoliating in irregular flakes. 
Wood white, soft, even-grained. Leaves nearly sessile, 6-12 
by l£-5in. elliptic or ovate-oblong, obtusely acuminate, sub- 
coriaceous ; secondary nerves 10-16 pairs, strong, arched ; 
petiole 0-lin. Flowers white or cream coloured, slightly 
scented, 1-lJin. across, puberulous, in terminal corymbose 
cymes which are 3-6in diam. J. D. Hooker says, “ the flowers 
are quite inodorous.” Calyx deeply 5-partite, lobes small, lan- 
ceolate acuminate, with glands inside at their base. Corolla- 
tube i ain. long, slender, cylindrical, swollen at the base round 
the anthers, throat contracted, naked ; lobes as long as the tube, 
oblong, spreading, everlapping to the left. Anthers subsessile, 
inserted near the base of the Coralla-tube. Cells rounded at the 
base. Carpels 2, distinct ; ovules numerous ; style short, filiform ; 
stigma oblong. Fruit of 2 distinct, divaricate follicles, 8-16 by 
£-§in., spreading and incurved, smooth, usually with white 
specks. Seeds numerous, ^in. long, narrowly linear-oblong, 
glabrous. Coma 2in., silky, brownish grey, l|-2in. long. 
“ Sir D. Brandis remarks that in Peninsula specimens the 
style is much longer than in those of Northern India, and the 
anthers are attached to the middle of the corolla tube instead 
of at the base.” (Duthie). 
Uses : — Kurchi bark is medicinally used as a tonic and 
febrifuge ; but it is chiefly esteemed for its antidysenteric 
properties. That it is always a sure remedy for dysenteric 
affections, has been borne out by the statements of many 
medical practitioners, both Native and European. Sub-Assist- 
ant-Surgeon A. C. Kastagiri publishes a case in the Indian 
Medical Gazette, vol. I, p. 352, and says that he treated a child, 
15 months old suffering from dysentery, with the decoction 
