940 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
(Pb.) ; Tattunua (C. P.) ; Tantun, tetu, ulu, karkath, saunavanga, 
achi, vanga-maram (Tam.i; Pamania, pampana, dundillam, 
dondlup, Mandukaparnamu, Sukanasamu, pampenachettu, 
(Tel.); Tetu, Anamungu, dundukara, bagi mokka, alaugi-rnara. 
(Kan.) ; Palakapaiyana, aralu, veluttapatiri — maram, arantal 
(Mai). Ginsen, Dak-dawa, sicat ( Palamow). 
Habitat : — Common throughout India, from the Himalaya 
to Ceylon ; not in the Western drier area r but 'in the Terai, 
west to the Chenab. 
Usually a small deciduous tree, but attaining sometimes 
30-40ft. Branched at the top. Bark |in. thick, yellowish-grey, 
rather smooth, soft, with numerous large corky lenticels ; yields 
rather a green juice when cut. Wood yellowish-white, soft, 
no heartwood (Gamble). Leaves extremely large, 3-5 ft., trian- 
gular in outline, three-or quadri-pinnate with opposite pinnae ; 
rachis very stout, cylindric, much swollen at the branches, 
rough, with corky lenticels, primary pinnae about 5 pair. Leaf- 
lets numerous, shortly petiolate, 2§-4£m., broadly oval or nearly 
rot.undate at base, suddenly and shortly cordate, acuminate, 
obtuse, glabrous, paler beneath. Flowers with an unpleasant 
smell, numerous, dull-pale, pinkish-yellow inside, reddish-purple 
outside, on very stout, glabrous, spreading pedicels, 2$-3in., long 
and articulated at base, arranged in very large erect racemes, 
l-2ft. or more long, peduncle very short, branch-like, bracts 
fused with the peduncle. Calyx lfin., oblong-campanulate, 
glabrous. Corolla-tube 2£in., mouth about 4in., lobes much 
crumpled in bud, thickly covered on both sides with papillose 
hairs. Filaments cottony at base, disk fleshy, style 2£in , stigma 
Jin. wide with 2 semicircular plates. Ovary oblong, somewhat 
compressed, glabrous. Capsule 2-2sft. or even more by 3$-4in., 
wide, long, flat, swordlike, acute, tapering at both ends, 
dehiscenting at the edges ; semi-woody, thin flat septum. Seeds 
very numerous, oval, wing extending ali round except at base, 
2Jin. diam (Trimen). (C.B. Clarke). 
Parts used : — The bark and seeds. 
Uses : — In Hindu medicine, “root-bark considered astrin- 
gent, tonic, and useful in diarrhoea and dysentery. Tender fruits 
are described as grateful, carminative and stomachic.’’ 
