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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
mottled with dark streaks, very hard, seasons and polishes 
well (Gamble). Young shoots covered with viscid pubescence. 
Leaves imparipinnate. Leaflets 3-5 pair, elliptic, shortly 
acuminate, often serrulate, blade 3-6in. lung, rough on the 
upper, pubescent on the under side ; petiole short. Flowers 
exquisitely fragrant, in lax trichotomous viscid panicles, dull 
crimson (Brandis), dull purple (Trimen), which latter is more 
like the colour of the flowers seen by me in Ratnagiri and Tliana 
(K. R. K.). Corolla 1-ljin. long, pubescent funnel-shaped, limb 
oblique, the 3 inferior lobes longer and the edges of all much 
curled. Capsule straight, cylindric, 12-24 by fin., dark-grey or 
purple ; slightly ribbed, rough, with elevated specks ; valves 
thick, hard, woody. Seeds 1| by |in., deeply notched at the 
middle, subtrigonous, embedded in the notches of the septum. 
(Brandis. C. B. Clarke). 
Uses : — “ The flowers rubbed up with honey are given to 
check hiccup. The root bark is an ingredient in dasamilla. It 
is regarded as cooling, diuretic and tonic, and is generally 
used in combination with other medicines. The ashes of the 
plant are used in the preparation of alkaline water and caustic 
pastes” (U. C. Dutt.) 
In Tanjore the flowers are taken in the form of a confection 
as an aphrodisiac. (P. S. Mootooswamy). 
907. S. Xylocarpum, Wight, h.f.b.i., iv. 383. 
Syn. : — Bignonia xylocarpa, Roxb. 494. 
Vern. : — Ghan-seng (Can.) ; Khar-sing (Mar.) ; Vaden kurni 
maram (Tam.) 
Habitat: — Common in the Deccan Peninsula, extending 
North to the Satpura Range. 
A deciduous tree, middle-sized, 30-60ft.; innovations pubes- 
cent. Bark |in.. thick, lightly grey. Sapwood large, grey, heart- 
wood very hard, orange-brown. Annual rings well marked by an 
irregular belt of numerous pores (Gamble). Leaves 2-pinnate 
or 3-pinnate, l-4ft. long. Leaflets 3 by l^in., subsessile, elliptic, 
acute, entire, mature glabrous, “ hard and slightly rough when 
full grown,” says Brandis. Flowers fragrant, white with a tinge 
of yellow, in dense, compound, pubescent, erect, somewhat rigid 
