N. O. BIGNONIAOEiE. 
945 
Kans6ri (Meywar) ; Mersingh, bhil (C. P.) ; Mersinge, kanseri, 
mendal manchingi (Bom.) ; Mersingi (Mar.) ; Karanjelo (Kurku); 
Gudmurki (Kan); Kadatatbie (Tam.); Udda, wodi (Tel.) Nir 
pongilam (Malay.) 
Habitat: — Bundelkband ; dry hills in C. India. Deccan 
Peninsula ; Mysore and Vellyengry Hills ; Belgaum. 
A middle-sized, deciduous tree, 20-50ft., more or less grey, 
pubescent, or shortly villous. Bark fin. or less thick, bluish- 
grey, exfoliating in irregular woody scales. Wood whitish, 
hard, close-even-grained, shining, glossy ; no heart-wood. Leaves 
imparipinnate, 3-6in. Leaflets 5-7 by f-lfin., pubescent or 
glabrous, obovate or round-elliptic, rarely with a small obtuse 
point. Petiole fin. long. Petiolule 0, rarely f-|in. Flowers white, 
in fewfid corymbs, mostly 1-3-fid, subsessile. Pedicels fin. Calyx 
f-fin. of the expanded flowers, softly grey, pubescent. Corolla- 
tube slender below, 1-1 fin. long. Anthers included. Capsule 
flat, much curved, 10-18 by fin. oompressed, glabrous. Seeds 
about lin. long by fin. wide, rectangular, winged at both ends. 
Use : — A decoction of the fruit is used medicinally (Watt). 
It has the reputation ofjreing used to procure abortion, and 
the bark is, it is stated, used as a fish poison. 
Dr. Lyon, Chemical Analyser to the Government of Bombay, 
found, however, no ill effects to follow the administration of a 
considerable quantity of a decoction of , the bark to a small dog. 
(Med. Juris, for India, p. 216.) It is possible that the woody 
capsules, which are about a foot in length by § of an inch in 
diameter, and somewhat curved, may he used as abortion sticks. 
(Pharmacographia Indica, III. 24). 
904 . H eteropliragma Roxburghii, H.F.B.I., IV. 
381 . 
Syn. : — Bignonia quadrilocularis, Roxb. 494. 
Vern.: — Pullung, warras (Bomb.) ; Baro-kala-goru (Tam.) ; 
Bond-gu (Tel.) ; Adwinuggi (Kan). 
Habitat — W. Deccan Peninsula, from Bombay southwards; 
Central India ; and the Godavery Forests. 
A large tree ; innovations woolly. Bark fin. thick, grey or 
dark-brown, exfoliating in small angular scales. Wood grey, 
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