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there will he no confusion. C. serratum has a light-coloured root. Very often 
contorted, and seldom more than an inch in diameter. A light brown 
epidermis and thin bark cover the tough woody portion, which shows well- 
marked medullary rays and concentric rings. The drug contains much 
starch, it is faintly bitter, and has no peculiar odour. The young tops and 
light blue flowers are used as a vegetable by the natives. 
The root of C. s erratum did not yield anything of great activity when 
examined chemically, which proves that there is little to recommend it as a 
medical agent." 
965 . C. infortunatum, Goertn., h.f.b.i., iv. 594 . 
Syn. : — Volkameria infovtunata, Roxb. 478. 
Vern. : — Bliant, bliat (Hind.); Chitu (Nepal); Kadung 
(Lepclia) ; Lukunah (Meclii); Kliaoung-gyee (Bunn.); Pera- 
goo (Mai.) ; Barangi (Punj.) ; Bakada (Tel.) ; Kara (Dehra Dun). 
Habitat : — Very common in the warm region throughout 
India, from Gurhwal and Assam to Ceylon. 
A shrub or small slender tree often gregarious 4-1 Of t. 
branchlets bluntly quadrangular, yellowish or white villous 
silky pubescent upwards. Petioles, underside of leaves inflores- 
cence slightly pubescent. Leaves large, 4-6in., ovate, cordate 
or rounded at base, acuminate, acute or sub-acute, entire, thinly 
hairy on both sides, especially on the veins beneath, somewhat 
3-nerved from base, venation prominent beneath. Petiole 1 J-3in., 
Oylindric, pubescent. Flowers large, white pink-tinged, on 
rather long pedicels, cymes stalked, in large lax, pyramidal 
pubescent panicles. Bracts leafy, deciduous. Calyx Jin.. silky 
pubescent, very much enlarged in fruit, segments deep, lanceo- 
late, very acute. Corolla-tube about 1 i n . , slender, lobes, large, 
sin., oblong, obtuse. Drupe Jin. nearly globose, succulent, 
purplish black, shining, seated in centre of the very much 
enlarged, spreading, succulent bright pink Calyx, ljin. diam., 
pyren8 usually solitary brittle (Trimen). 
Uses : — “Dr. Bliolanauth Bose calls attention to the leaves 
as a cheap and efficient substitute for chiretta as a tonic and 
antiperiodic. The fresh juice of the leaves is stated by Mr. 
Kanny Lall Dey to be employed by the natives as a vermifuge, 
and also as a bitter tonic and febrifuge in malarious fevers, 
especially in those of children” (Ph. Ind.). The leaves and 
