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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
757 . T . He-yneana, Wall., h.f.b.i., hi. 646 . 
Vern. — Naglkud, pandra-kura (.Mar) ; Bil i kodsaloo ; nagar- 
kooda ; halraeti ; maddarsa (Kan). 
Habitat — Western Ghats, from the Concan southwards, 
common. 
A small glabrous tree. Bark“ grey, rough, with much milky 
juice,” says Brandis, whereas Gamble says that the bark is 
smooth grey. J. D. Hooker says the bark is pale smooth 
and grooved when dry. Wood light-grey, or white. Branches 
very stout. Leaves 3-8 by l-2yin., coriaceous linear-oblong 
or linear-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, dark-brown and shin- 
ing above when dry, paler beneath ; midrib and nerves beneath 
stout. Nerves 12-16 pair, arched. Petiole y-fin., base dilated. 
Peduncle l-2in.; pedicels f-lin.; bracts obsolete. Cymes many- 
fid. Calyx very coriaceous ; lobes hardly ovate, obtuse, crisped. 
Ovary very short; style filiform, top obconic ; stigma forked. 
Follicles yellow, smooth, very variable, f-lin. long, sessile, 
slightly recurved, shortly banana-shaped (K.R.K.), not keeled or 
ribbed, beaked or not. Seeds 2 or more, yin. long. 
Uses. — The authors of the Pharmacographia Indica, vol. II, 
p. 413, write that this species is considered to have similar 
properties to those of T. coronaria, Br., and is known by the 
same vernacular name. In Puddukota, the flowers are used in 
inflammation of the cornea. 
758 . T. Coronaria, Br. h.f.b.i., iii. 646 . fioxb. 
249 . 
Sans.: — Tagara ; Naudi-vriksha (Ainslie). “ Firki-lugar the 
Hindoo name of the single flowered, and Bura-tuyar of the 
double flowered.” (Roxb). 
Vern : — Sagar ; Tagar (Mar. and Gtiz.) ; Grandi tagarapu, 
Nandi-vardana (Tel.) ; Chandni, Taggai, Taggar (H. ) ; Tagar 
(B.) ; Asuru (Nepal;; Krun (Lepcha)'; Nagui-kada (Kan.). 
Habitat. — Much cultivated in gardens throughout India, from 
the N. W. Himalaya in Kumaon, Eastward and Southward, 
Ceylon. 
