N. 0. VERBENACEj®. 
989 
Vern.: — Bastra (H.) ; Massandavi (B.) ; Aisav (Bom.) ; Koat- 
Komul (Tam.) ; Tondik-teregam (Mai.) 
N.B .— The plant known as Aisar at Matheran is Callicarpa Cana, Linn., 
(ERE.) 
Habitat : — Western and Southern India and the Circars. 
A small or moderate-sized bushy tree, 30-40ft. Branchlets 
stout, cylindric, closely covered with a thick felt (easily detached) 
of stellate hair, young parts very densely stellate-tomentose. 
Leaves large 6-9in., ovate, rounded or obtuse at the base, 
slightly acuminate, acute, entire, glabrous when mature, rugose 
and bright green above, densely covered with a close felt of white 
or yellowish stellate hair beneath. Petiole |-2in., stout, very 
tomentose. Flowers pale pinkish, lilac, sessile, in clusters of 3. 
Cymes shortly pedunculate, divaricately branched, densely 
stellate-tomentose. Bracts linear. Calyx membranous, stellate- 
tomentose. Corolla glabrous, tube |in., lobes oblong, obtuse, 
recurved. Anthers cream-coloured. Drupe under £in , globose, 
black, shining. 
Uses : — Both leaves and bark are faintly aromatic and bit- 
terish, and afford much mucilage when boiled. The leaves 
boiled in milk are used as a wash for aphthae of the mouth, 
and that the bark and root boiled in water yield a decoction 
which is used to lessen febrile heat and remove hepatic obstruc- 
tion and hepatie eruptions (Rheede). Ainslie says that “ this 
plant is reckoned by the Javanese amongst their emollients. The 
bark possesses a peculiar sub-aromatic and slightly bitterish 
taste and may probably be found to have other medicinal virtues. 
The Malays consider the plant as a diuretic.” According to Drury, 
the root is employed in Upper India in cutaneous affections. 
In Ceylon the leaves and bark are used both internally and 
externally. The bark is said also to be chewed (Trimen). 
949 . C. macrophylla, Vahl., h.f.b.i., iv. 568 . 
Syn. : — C. incana, Roxb. 131. 
Vern. : — Pattharman, sumdli, denthar, daya (Himalayan 
names) ; Mathara, mattranja (Beng.) ; Ba-pattra, bauna (Pb.). 
Habitat : — Throughout N. and E. India, ascending to 6,000ft. 
