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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
1124 . Buxus sempervirens, Linn., h.f.b.i., v. 267 . 
Vern : — Shanda laghuue (AfgA ; Cliikri (Kashmir) ; Papri, 
paptir, paprang, shamshad, shumaj (Pb.). 
Habitat : — Temperate Himalaya, from Kumaon to Simla 
and Bhotan. Punjab on the Salt Range, etc. 
A small, evergteen shrub or tree. Bark grey, soft, corky, 
cut into small plates by deep horizontal and vertical cracks. 
Wood yellowish-white, hard, smooth, very close-and even- 
grained. Branchlets and young leaves pubescent. Branchlets 
4-sided. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, varying from lanceolate to 
ovate, quite entire, l-3in. long, narrowed into a short petiole. 
Flowers yellowish, monoecious, in dense, short, axillary spikes ; 
smell unpleasant ; the terminal flowers usually female. Male 
flowers : — Sepals 4, biseriate, imbricate ; stamens 4 free, opposite 
to sepals, inserted round a 4-sided rudimentary ovary. Female 
flowers : — Sepals 6, in two circles of 3 each ; ovary 3-celled, 3-cor- 
nered ; top flat ; the corners terminating in thick, short styles. 
Capsules coriaceous, 3-valved, each valve ending in. 2 hoi ns, 
being the halves of 2 styles ; dissepiments attached to the valves. 
(Brandis) ; seeds oblong, trigonous, with a black shining testa 
and fleshy albumen. 
Uses : —The wood is diaphoretic ; leaves bitter, purgative 
and diaphoretic, useful in rheumatism and syphilis. Said to 
be poisonous to camels. A tincture from the bark is used as a 
febrifuge (Stewart). 
1125 . Bridelia retusa Spreng., H F B.I., v. 268 . 
Syn. : — B. spinosa, Roxb. 706. 
Vern.: — Pathor, mark (Pb.) ; Khaja, kaj, kassi, gauli (H.); 
Kharaka, kaka (Kol.) ; Kfij (Mongyr) ; Kadrfi pala (Santal) ; 
Gaya (Dehra Dun) ; Gauli (Garhwal) ; Lamkana, ’augnera 
(Rajputana); Geio (Nepal); Pengji (Lepcha) ; Kashi (Garo) ; 
Kamkfii (Chittagong) ; Kasi, kosi (Uriya) ; Mulluvengay, kamanji 
(Tam.) ; Kormanu, pedda-avem, danki-bura, dudi maddi, kora 
madi, (Tel.) ; Kassei (Gond.) ; Gunjan, kati ain, asana (Bhil.) ; 
Phatarphod, asana, asauna (Bom.) ; Sun (Duk.) ; Asuna, gojo 
(Kan.) ; Adamarathu (Tinnevelly). 
