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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Sans : — Bhadravalli, bhadramunja, visalyakrit. 
Vern : — Ramsar ; Chamari-ka-vel (H.); Hapar mdli ; Ramsar 
(B.) ; Dudhi (Kumaon), Pulta podara yardla, pala malle tivva 
(Tel.). 
Habitat : — The Himalayan tract, from the Ganges eastward, 
Central and South India. (Commonly cultivated in India). 
Tall, twining shrubs, with ash colored bark and cymose 
flowers, Leaves, elliptic or oblong or linear-oblong, acumi- 
nate, pellucid, dotted, lf-4 by f-lfin., glabrous or pubscent. 
Petiole f-fin. The axils of the petioles glandular. Cymes 
5-10-fid., sessile or peduncled, dichotomous much shorter than 
the leaves. Flowers pure white fin., diam., fragrant. Sepals 
ovate oblong obtuse equallying the short corolla- tube. Corolla- 
limb spreading. Disk ciliate. Filaments line or, villous. 
Anthers woolly. Style pubescent, Follicles 6 by 2 in., straight 
tapering from a rounded base to a stiff point, splitting into 4 
valves when dry (Roxb). Pericarp thick, fibrous. Seed lin., 
ovate, beaked, with a tuft of pairs at hilurn, Coma very long, 
silvery white. 
Uses : — The milky juice is employed as an application to 
wounds and old sores in the U. P. (Atkinson . 
The milky juice is a mild irritant. Applied to old sores and 
sinuses, it excites some degree of inflammation in them and 
thereby expedites the process of healing (Assist-Surg. R. C. 
Gupta, in Watt’s Dictionary). 
760. Wvightia tinctoria, Br. h.f.b.i., m. 653. 
Syn. : — Nerium tinctorium, Roxb. 243. 
Sans. : — Hayamiraka. 
Vern. : — Indarjou (H. and B.) ; Kdla kado, kala-kuda, kuda, 
khirni, bhurkuri (Bomb.) ; PMa, veypale, pila, pila (Tam.) ; 
Tedlap&l, tellapal, amkudu (Tel.) ; Kodmurki, Kuda, beppalli, 
pale (Kan.) ; Kota kappala (Malay.). 
Habitat — Central India, throughout the Western Peninsula. 
Rajputana. Thrives on Mount Abu, Burma. 
