946 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
rough, moderately hard ; noheartwood, no annual rings. Leaves 
1-pinnate, tomentose when young, glabrous afterwards, generally 
approximate near the ends of branches, l-2ft. Leaflets 7-9, 
4| by 2in., obtuse, with a short point, elliptic, entire or crenate, 
often serrulate, 3-4pair ; petiolule 0-|in Flowers in large, termi- 
nal, densely tawny-tomentose panicles. Pedicels short, woolly. 
Calyx on one side more deeply or obtusely bilabiate or irregular- 
ly lobed half-way down. Corolla floccose, ultimately glabrate, 
campanulate, white, fringed with pink, tube ljin., mouth 2in. 
diam., lobes crisped. Anther-cells elliptic ; divaricate at base. 
Capsule straight, narrowly oblong, slightly compressed, smooth, 
velvety while young, 8-12 by l|-2in., divided into 4 cells by 
the 4-ridged septum, which latter, when cut horizontally, looks 
cross-shaped. Seeds \\ by lin. 
Use : — The natives extract from the wood a thick fluid like 
tar, which they use in skin diseases. 
905. Stereospermum cheloniodes, DeC., h . f . b . i ., 
iv . 382. 
Syn : — Bignonia cheloniodes, Linn. f. Roxb. 493. 
Venn. : — Pader, padri, parral (Hind.); Pandair (Lohardaga) ; 
Pandri (Khar war); Dharmar, atkapalf (Beng.) ; Kandior, pondair 
(Kol.) ; Parolli (Assam) ; Pareya-auwal (Cachar) ; Bolzel (Garo) ; 
Parari (Nepal) ; Syngyen (Lepcha) ; Sirpaug (Michi) ; Pamphunia 
(Uriya) ; Tsaintsa (Mugh); Taitu (Berar) ; Padurni (Bhil); Padal, 
padri, paral, kirsel, tuatuka (Bomb.); Kirsel, tuatuka, padul, 
padvale, padhri (Mar.) ; Padri, pon-padira, pathiri, vela-padri, 
appu, Kana Virukham (Tam.); Tagada, thagu, kala gorii, moka- 
yapa, pisul (TI.); Kalihiiti'u, kall-udi, bondh-vala, bile padri, 
maradakarji, puruli mara (Kan.); Nai-udi, mallali (Coorg) ; 
Patirimaram (Mai). 
Habitat : — Through moister India; from the Terai of Oudh 
and Assam to Ceylon. 
A large deciduous tree, 30 — 60ft., nearly glabrous, except the 
flowers. Bark brown varying in thickness up to fin., outer bark 
corky. Wood hard, grey, no heartwood Leaves 1-pinnate, 
12-I8in., leaflets imparipinnate, 3-5 pair, elliptic caudate acumi- 
nate, blade 4-6in., petiole l-|in. long. Panicle branches slender, 
