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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
branches. Leaves membranous l^Jin., linear-oblong, shortly 
petioled, acute at both ends, glabrous but slightly ciliate 
on the margin. Flowers in racemes very numerous, bright 
light-blue. Pedicels rather long, curved, glabrous or with 
numerous short glandular hairs. “ Inflorescence ” says C. B. 
Clarke, “ patently viscidly hairy, or (in Ceylon form) nearly 
glabrous.” Racemes l-2in., bracts f-Jin., narrower. Cymes 
racemose, bracts leafy; sepals about Jin., jblong-1 inear, 
glabrous or with copious glandular hairs. Corolla nearly Jin. 
diam , lobes |in. ovate, acute. Stamens exserted, filaments 
dilated at base or nearly filiform. Styles long, spreading. 
Capsule ovoid, oblong, shorter than the persistent enclosing 
striate (Trimen), Seeds many, minute, oblong. 
Use : — The leaves, beaten into a pulp and applied as a 
poultice, are considered to have a cleaning and healing effect 
on neglected and callous ulcers. They apparently possess some 
antiseptic property. 
N. 0. BOARGINEiE. 
809. Cordia Myxa, Linn., h.f.b.i., iv. 136 ; 
Roxb. 198. 
Vern. : — Lasora, bhokar (Gondi and Hind.); Dabk (Arab.) ; 
Sugpistan (Pers.); Bohari, buhul, boho-dari (Beng.); Ninut 
(Lepcha) ; Vidi (Tam.) ; Thanet (Burm.); Bhokar (Mar.). 
Habitat : — Throughout India. 
A moderate-sized, deciduous, tree, 40 or 50 ft. high and 
usually, with a crooked trunk. Bark J to fin. thick, grey or 
brown rough, with shallow longitudinal wrinkles and furrows. 
Wood greyish brown, moderately hard, no heartwood. Branch- 
lets glabrous; young shoots silvery grey. Leaves alternate, 
thinly coriaceous l-5in. diam., entire or slightly obscurely hairy 
beneath when young, dentate from slightly scabrous to glabrous 
above, variable in shape from elliptic-lanceolate to broad-ovate, 
often with a rounded or cordate base, basal nerves 3, rarely 5, 
the first pair sub-basal. Petiole l-2in. long. Flowers small, 
male and hermaphrodite, often on the same tree, mostly penta- 
merous, white, in loose ebracteate corymbose cymes, 2-8in. ; 
