N. 0. fiOAHGltJEj®. 
857 
male larger, laxer, terminal, and on short lateral branches. But 
very near, globose. Calyx l-g-in. at flower time, soon much 
accrescent, tubular campanulate, lobes very short. Corolla- 
tube xVff'm. tube hairy within. Stamens exserted, filaments 
hairy below. Stigmas with long linear lobes. Fruit drupe, 
z-lin. long ; when ripe yellowish brown, pink or nearly black, 
shining, but minutely rugose ; endocarp rugose, very hard 
in a sweetish viscid, but translucent pulp, edible. Brandis 
says the pulp is transparent, but it is not quite so. C. B. Clarke 
calls the fruit a berry, yellow or pinkish, nearly always 1-seeded. 
Kanjilal says the Drupe is yellow, and glossy when ripe. The 
fruiting Calyx is -fin. diam., wide funnel-shaped, more or less 
distinctly striated longitudinally (Sebestin). 
Uses : — According to Sanskrit writers, the bark is useful in 
calculous affections, strangury and catarrh. The ripe fruits 
are sweet, cooling and demulcent (U. C. Dutt). 
The fruits were, in European practice, in considerable repute 
as an emollient and demulcent, especially in affections of the 
lungs and genito-urinary organs, but now have fallen into 
disuse. In doses of from ten to twelve drachms the pulp acts 
as a laxative. The bark, according to Plorsfield (Asiat. Journ , 
1819), is one of the - chief remedies of the Javanese, who employ 
it in fevers, &c. It is, apparently, a mild tonic iPh. Ind.). ' 
Teeth are rubbed with the bark to strengthen them. Pickles 
are prepared from the fruit. The bark contains a large amount 
of tannic acid ( B. D. Basu). 
The kernels are a good remedy in ringworm. The leaves 
aie useful, as an application to ulcers and in headache (Baden- 
Powell). 
The juice of the bark, along with cocoanut oil, is given in 
gripes. The bark and also the unripe fruit are used as a mild 
tonic (Atkinson). The Santals use a powder of the bark as an 
external application in prurigo (Revd. A. Campbell). 
810. G. obliqrn, Willd. h.f.b.i., iv. 137. 
Syn. : — C. latifolia, Rorb. 189. 
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