1114 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Bengal, at Comilla, Chittagong, Deccan Peninsula, from the 
Concan southwards. 
A straggling shrub, climber or erect tree. Bark dark- 
brown, f or fin. thick, deeply cleft in vertical or spiral fissures 
and peeling oil in thick plates. Wood light-yellow, moderately 
hard. Trunk sometimes Gin. diam. ; branches often spinescent. 
Leaves ovate-oblong, elliptic or almost rounded, obtuse or acute ; 
blade 3-5in. ; petiole Li'm long. Branchlets, petioles, under- 
side of leaves densely clothed with ferruginous or silvery, 
circular, dentate and lobed scales. Flowers male and bi-sexual, 
scented ; pedicellate in few or many-fid, often pedunculate 
fascicles. Perianth clothed outside with silvery or ferruginous 
scales ; in the fertile flower much constricted above the 
ovary. Fruit 1-lfin., .pvoid-oblong, succulent, red or yellow 
pulp when ripe, edible. Endocarp ribbed, coriaceous; clothed 
inside with a dense felt or white hairs. 
Uses : — The flowers are officinal in Sind and Punjab, and are 
considered cardiac and astringent. (Stewart.) Griffith says 
that fruit is used medicinally in Kashmere as an astringent. 
Very agreeable to taste. 
1104 . Hippophce rhamnoides, Linn., ii.f.b.i., v. 
203 . 
Vevn. : — Tsarap, tsarana, sirna, tsuk, tasru (Ladak, Piti find 
Lahoull ; Dhurchuk, tarwn, chfik, chuma (U. P.) ; Kala bisa, 
bant phfit, amb, kando, milech, miles, suts, rul (Pb.). 
Habitat : — North-Western Himalaya ; in the beds of streams 
of the inner drier ranges, from Kumaon westwards. 
A large, thorny, dioecious shrub, sometimes a small tree, with 
rigid branches, and silvery twigs and leaves. Bark grey, rough, 
with vertical furrows. Heartwood yellowish-brown, mottled, 
moderately hard, close-grained. Leaves short-petioled, alternate, 
4-2 by ns-|in., sub-coriaceous, glabrescent and dull-green above, 
felted with grey or rust- colon red, circular or irregularly in- 
dented scales beneath. Male flowers in axillary clusters on 
the old wood. Perianth with two opposite oblong segments, 
filaments short. Female flowers axillary, solitary, pedicelled. 
