870 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
N. 0. CONVOLVULA.CEiE. 
830. Erycibe paniculata, Roxb. h.f.b.i,, iv. 180 
Roxb. 197. 
Vern. : — Ururnin (Kol) ; Kari (Santal). Ankole, Sengar 
bally (K). 
Habitat : — Throughout India. 
A diffuse or subscandent shrub, or an erect tree, 40ft. Bark 
brown, with large rough corky lenticeJs. Wood soft, porous,, 
of peculiar structure ; round the central pith radiate in series 
of wedges of wood tissue ; round these comes a layer of bast 
tissue ; then a series of separate, round, concentrically arranged 
masses of wood tissue separated by bast tissue, then more layers 
of bast and similar masses of wood tissue, gradually getting 
smaller outwards (Gamble). Branchlets angular. Young shoots 
and inflorescence densely clothed with rust-coloured tomentum. 
Leaves 5 by 2in., obovate or obovate-oblong, abruptly acuminate, 
glabrescent, base attenuate, nerves 5-7 pair, distinct above. 
Petiole -jin. long. Flowers yellowish-white, in elongate narrow 
terminal panicles, 7 by 1 Jin. Bracts inconspicuous; pedicels 
L-’-in. Calyx clothed outside with reddish-brown tomentum 
and more or less stellate-pubescent. Sepals j^in. Corolla 
J-Jin., petals crisped, tube broadly funnelshaped ; lobes 
5, bifid, hairy on the back below the division, margins plicate. 
Anthers with a long curved apiculate connective. Berry 
Jin. diam., when ripe, black, ellipsoid, supported by the 
rusty-pubescent 5-lobed calyx. 
Use : — In Chutia Nagpur, the bark is given for cholera 
(Revd. A. Campbell). 
831. Rivea ornata, Chois, h.f.b.i., iv., p. 183. 
Vern. — Phand (Mar.) 
A large spreading shrub. Stems subherbaceous, hardly ever 
twinning. Leaves 3-6 in. long, usually broader than long, orbi- 
cular or reniform, abtuse, somewhat emarginate and often api- 
culate at the apex, rather silky beneath, lobes rounded ; petioles 
