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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Verm. : — Chhotd-lasdra, chhota-laslasa (Hind.) ; Chhoto- 
bolmaari (Beng); Mokliatab (Arab.); Sugpistan (Pers.) ; Spiru- 
naruvili ("Tam.); Chinna-botku (Tel.) ; Tana, tanusi (Bunn.); 
Geedooree (Sind.) ; Vurgoond (Guz.) ; Bliokar (Dec.). 
Habitat: — Western India, from the Punjab and Hindustan 
to Ceylon. 
A middle-sized tree closely resembling C. Myxa. It is the 
C. obliqua of Wight’s. Ic. t. 1378. Innovations fulvous-villous. 
Leaves alternate, ovate or orbicular, sub-3-nerved, young tomen 
tose beneath, adult glabrous, entire or nearly so, densely and 
softly tomentose beneath, with stellate hairs. Basal nerves 3-5. 
Cystolith cells not conspicuous on surface of leaves. Corymbs 
divaricate, dichotomous, glabrous. Calyx glabrous without, or 
scarcely villous on the margin, |-Jin. (at flower- time), tube cara- 
panulate ; lobes distinct, densely villous within. Corolla-lobes 
s-jin. Berry lin. ovoid, sub-acute, 1-seeded. 
Both kinds of fruit when dry are shrivelled, and of the color 
of a dry prune. The pulp of C. obliqua can be separated from 
the nut, that of C. Myxa cannot ; on sawing through the nut a 
heavy disagreeable smell is observable. (Dymock). 
Uses : — The fruit is used as an expectorant and astring ent. 
In Sind, it is regarded as demulcent (Stocks). 
The fruit in its raw state contains a gum used beneficially 
in gonorrhoea. (T. N. Ghose, in Watt’s Dictionary). 
811. G. obliqua, Willd. Var. Wallichii H.F.B.I., 
iv. 137. 
Habitat : — Western India, Lahore to Kurg. 
A middle-sized tree, closely resembling C. Myxa, Linn. 
Adult leaves densely stellafely fulvous or white-tomentose 
beneath, calyx glabrescent without below, teeth densely fulvous- 
villous. 
This is C obliqua, Var B. of all the old collectors, who have 
mixed it with C. obliqua type. The two are undoubtedly one ; 
they differ in hairs only, and intermediately hairy examples 
occur. (Clarke). 
