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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
956. Gindina arborea, Linn., h.f.r.i., iv. 581 ; 
Roxb. 486. 
Sans. Kasmari (growing in Kashmere), Sarvato-Bhadra 
(auspicious in every quarter), Sliri-pami (fortune-leaved), Krishna- 
vrintaka (black stalk), Kalahari (of variegated color), Hira 
(a plant). 
Vern. : — Kuinhar gumhar, kakodumbari (Hind, and Pb.) ; 
Gumar, gumbar (Beng.) ; Gambari (Nepal) ; Gomari (Ass.), 
Nuinbor (Lepcha) ; Bolkobak (Garo) ; Gumadi, cuinrni (Tam. 1 ; 
Gumar-tek, pedda-gomru, tagurmida (Tel.) ; Sliewney, kuli 
I Kan.) ; Kurse (Gond.) ; At-demmata (Cingli.) 'Shewan, Sliivan 
(Mar.). 
Habitat. — Throughout the Idekkan and Konkan, C. P., Berar, 
North West Himalaya, Ceylon, Chittagong, Eastern Bengal. 
An unarmed deciduous tree, up to 60ft. high ; bark some- 
what corky, greyish outside and yellow within ; young parts 
covered with white mealy pubescence. Leaves 4-8in. long, 
broadly ovate, acuminate, entire ; upper -surface glabrous Avlien 
mature, lower persistently clothed with fulvous stellate hairs, 
base cordate or truncate and shortly educate ; petioles 2-3in. 
long, cylindric, puberulous, glandular at the top. Floivers 
in small usually 3-do wered cymes which are arranged along 
the ‘branches of a densely fulvous-tomentose panicle, about 12in. 
in length ; buds clavate, angled ; bracts -g-in. long, linear 
lanceolate. Calyx broadly eampanulate, Jin. long, densely 
fulvous-tomentose ; teeth small, triangular, acute. Corolla 
o-lobed, Hiu long, brownish-yellow, very hairy outside ; 
upper lip -f-Jin. long, deeply divided into 2 oblong obtusebes 
lower lip about twice as long, 3-!obed, the middle lobe much 
longer than the lateral ones and with a crenulate margin. 
Drupe f-lin. long, ovoid or pyriform, smooth, orange-yellow 
when ripe. 
Uses : — In Hindu medicine, the juice of the leaves is used 
to remove foetid discharges and worms from ulcers (Duti). 
The fruit is officinal in the Punjab. The root is bitter, tonic, 
stomachic and laxative ; given in cough, rheumatism, fever and 
indigestion, and is said to have anthelmintic properties (Watt). 
