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INDIAN MEDIOINAL PLANTS. 
in the W. Himalaya ; from Kashmir to Assam ; abundant 
in Bengal plains, (?) Deccan Peninsula. 
An erect shrub, 4-8 ft. high, with straggling branches. 
Branches, leafstalks and inflorescence densely clothed. Bark thin, 
grey brown. Wood white soft (Gambles', with tawny wool-like 
to mentum. Leaves shortly stalked, 6-10in. long, by 2-3in. broad, 
lanceolate crenate or sharply toothed, long-pointed ; at times 
ovate or ovate-lanceolate. Upper surface wrinkled, stellately- 
pubescent ; lower, tomentose ; lateral nerves 12-15 pairs. Petiole 
£-jin. Flowers hardly iin long, pink, crowded in axillary stalked 
cymes. Calyx bell-shaped, minutely 4-toothed, join. Corolla 
tubular regular 4-lobed, lube short. Stamens far protruding, 
equal, 4. Anthers small exserted. Ovary 2 or 4-celled ; style 
long, stigma minutely capitate. Fruit a spongy succulent globose 
drupe, white with 4 one-celled pyrenes, when ripe fully 
(Collett and Kanjilal.) 
Uses : — In Hazara the leaves heated are applied to rheumatic 
joints. (Stewart.) “ The leaves,” says Trimen, “have a peculiar 
scent, mixed fetid and lemon-like, and are used for flavouring 
native soups and curries An aromatic oil is also obtained from 
the root and used as a remedy in disorders of the stomach.” 
950. Tectona grandis, Linn., f. h.f.b.i., iv. 570; 
Roxb. 202. 
Sans. Saka. 
Vern Sagun (Hind.) ; Segun (Beng.) ; Singuru (Uriya) ; 
Tekku, tek (Tam.); Teku (Tel.); Jati (Mai.) ; Saj, sal (Arab, 
and Pers ) ; Sagwan or Sag (Bomb.) ; Tegina-mara, Saguvnni, 
Sagoni-Mara (Kan ). 
Habitat: — W. Deccan Peninsula, from Central India to 
Orissa. 
A large deciduous tree, 80-120 fit. high ; branchlets 4-angu- 
lar, stellately tomentose. Leaves about 12 in. long (or much 
larger in seedling specimens), elliptic or obovate, acute or 
acuminate, entire, usually cuneate at the base ; upper surface 
rough, but glabrous, the lower densely clothed with grey or 
yellowish tomentum, main lateral nerves 8-10 pairs. Flowers 
