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INDIAN MKDk'INAI. 1‘UNTS. 
Dr. Alootooswamy lias seen the natives using tlie leaves 
soaked in goat’s urine or in onion juice for dropsy ; sometimes 
ckebulic myrobalans are added if the bowels are costive. 
A small or medium-sized deciduous tree ; branchlets and 
young leaves pubescent or velvety. Leaves membranous, drying 
black, 3-6in. long broadly ovate, sharply acuminate, usually 
quite entire, base cuneate ; upper surface glabrous when mature, 
the lower hairy especially on the midrib, petioles j-fin. long. 
Corymbs broad, usually terminating short leafy branchlets, 
rusty pubescent. Calyx 5-toothed, clothed with spreading 
hairs Corolla greenish-white. jin. long, pubscent within. 
Drupe globose, verrucose. 
Use : — The milk of the bark is applied to boils, and the juice 
is given to cattle in colic (Atkinson). The juice is applied 
medicinally in the Punjab (Stewart). 
954. P. eseulenta, Roxb., h.f.b.i. iv., 580 ; Roxb. 
485. 
Habitat : —Assam and Chittagong. A cultivated plant. 
A short-steirtmed entirely glabrous shrub ; branching, U-8ft. 
Leaves (jj by 3in., obovate or elliptic-acuminate, sharply 
serrate, base entire, cuneate suddenly narrowed, sometimes 
very shortly cordate, mature glabrate, nerves 5 pair ; petiole 
pin., slender obscurely puberulous. Corymbs compact, nearly 
glabrous, 2-J-in. diam., short-peduncled, globose many-fid ; 
bracts a J g in., linear. Calyx ^in., cup-shaped, obscurely puberu- 
lous ; minutely 5-tootlied somewhat enlarged, more distinctly 
toothed in fruit. Corolla jin., yellowish Avhite, 2-tipped, throat 
hairy. Drupe Jin , globose or somewhat obovoid, usually 3-4 
seeded. 
Use : — The natives of Chittagong employ the leaves medicin- 
ally (Roxb.). 
955. P. herbacea, Roxb. h.f.b.i., iv. 581 ; Roxb. 
485. 
Habitat : — Subtropical Himalaya, from Kumaon to Bhotan. 
S. Deccan Peninsula- 
Sans. : — Bliumijambu, bhumi-jamberka. 
