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INDIAN MEDICJNAI PLANTS. 
male flower 0 or with a slender style and small stigma. Stamens 
9-13, filaments hairy. 
Uses : — Ainslie writes : “ The bark is mildly astringent, 
and has a considerable degree of balsamic sweetness.” “ It is 
used by the hill people in the cure of diarrhoea.” Stewart 
writes : — “ The bark with that of Tetranthera Roxburghii, Nees 
(Litstea sebifera, Pers , var. proper) is officinal, being consider- 
ed stimulant, and after being bruised, applied, fresh or dry, to 
contusions, and sometimes mixed with milk and made into a 
plaster.” Campbell confirms the above, writing : “ The pow- 
dered bark is applied to the body for pains arising from blows 
or bruises, or from hard work ; it is also applied to fractures in 
animals.” The seeds yield an oil which is used medicinally. 
The medicinal properties above enumerated are very similar to 
those of the better-known, and more largely employed, L 
sebifera, Pers., the venacular names for which also strongly 
resemble— and, indeed, in certain dialects are identical with— 
those of this species. 
1094. L. Stocksii, Hook., h.f.b.i., v. 176. 
Vern . — Pisi (Mar.). 
Habitat. — The Concan and Canara, on the Ghats and 
Mahableshwar Hills. 
A large tree, glabrous, except the brown velvety inflores- 
cence, and very minute hairs occasionally on underside of 
leaves; branches stout. Bark smooth, greyish-brown. Wood 
yellowish-grey, moderately hard. Leaves l-2in. broad, l-2in., 
often of a purplish or brown glaucous hue beneath, greenish 
above with impressed nerves, coriaceous, elliptic, oblong or 
oblanceolate, alternate, rarely ovoid, acute or acuminate, very 
finely, but distinctly, reticulate and sometimes puberulous 
beneath, with 10-13 pairs of strong nerves ; petiole |-£in. 
Female umbels shortly pedicelled ; flowering nearly ^in. diam., 
6-8-fid, in stout sub-erect racemes, l-3in. long. Male heads 4-|in. 
diam. before opening. Perianth grey-silky. Perianth-tube oblong, 
turbinate in flower. Stamens (of female) reduced to 2 glands 
and a ligule. Fruiting umbels sometimes solitary or corymbose. 
