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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
shining resinous glands on the corolla ; and calyx also. Flowei 
yellowish or greenish white. 
Use : --In Chutia Nagpur, the bark is used for making an 
external application for pains in the chest (Revd. A. Camp- 
bell). 
961. V. glabrata, Br. h.f.b.i., iv. 588. 
Vern. : — Goda, horina, ashwal (Beng.) ; Luki neva-ledi 
(Tel.); Sengenit karril (Kan.) ; Tokra (Magh.) ; Shprasa (Mar.); 
Htouksha (Burm.) ; Sheras ; Longarbisthiras (Bom.). 
Habitat : — From S. Assam and Cachar to Deccan Peninsula. 
A large deciduous tree ; wood grey, handsome, with a satiny 
lustre, moderately hard, close-grained, durable. Youngest 
shoots slightly fulvous-tomentose or woolly. Leaves almost 
glabrous, mostly 5-3 foliate. Leaflets 5 by 21-in., ovate or 
oblong, subentire, acute or cuneate at both ends, entire, rarely 
toothed, mature with scattered appressed minute hairs beneath, 
younger very softly hairy or subtomentose. Petiolules 1-lin., 
upperside without resinous glands. Petiole l-4in., not winged. 
Peduncles long or often short. Cymes dichotomous. Flowers 
somewhat numerous, mostly shortly pedicelled ; bracts incons- 
picuous. Calyx tnin., minutely toothed, usually glabrous in the 
lower, hairy in the upper part. Corolla |-iiu. long, white and 
purple, tomentose, “ ochroleucOus,” says C. B. Clarke, which 
means yellowish white or buff ; further Mr- Clarke adds thus : — 
“ Lowest segments much the largest, hairy blue-purple.” Fila- 
ments minutely hairy. Pistil glabrous. Drupe J-iin. long, 
succulent, obovoid. 
Use ; — The bark and root are used as astringents. 
962. Glerodendron inerme, Goertn., h.f.b.i:, iv. 
589 ; Roxb. 477. 
Sans. : — Kshudragnimantha, kundali. 
Vern . : -Sang-kuppi, sang-kupi, lan-jai (H.) ; Bun-jumat, 
bun-join, bonjoi, ban-jai, ban-juen, batraj (B.) ; Vanajai (Bom.) 
and Mar.) ; Isandhari, sangkupi (Duk.) ; Shengan-kuppi, pina- 
shengam-kuppi, shangam-kupi, pinari (Tam.) ; Pishinika, uti 
