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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
supported by the enlarged calyx. Seeds broadly trigonous, 
dorsally rounded. 
Use : — The twigs and leaves are said to kill cattle when 
browsed in the early morning on an empty stomach. (Stewart). 
1129. Phyllanthus reticulatus, Poir., H.F.b.i., v. 
288, Roxb. 681. 
Sans. : — Krishna-kamboji. 
Venn. : — Panjoli, raakhi, buin-owla, kale-madh-ka-per (H.) ; 
Panjuli (B. and Pb.); Kabonan (Raj.) ; Kamohi, fruit=pika- 
pirfi, leaves^kamohi jopun, bark = kamohi jochodo (Sind); 
Pavana (Bomb.) ; Datwan (Guz.) ; Pulavayar-puttay, pillanji, 
karappu-pillanji (Tam.) ; Nalla-puruguddu, purugudu, nella- 
purududfi, pliulser (Tel.). 
Habitat : — Throughout tropical India, in the plains from 
Sind, Behar, Rohilkund, Sikkim and Assam to Travancore. 
A large straggling or climbing shrub, 8-10ft. Bark brown, 
thin. Wood reddish or greyish-white, hard, close-grained. 
Shoots glabrous or finely pubescent. Branches lenticillate, 
numerous, stout ; woody branchlets long, drooping. Leaves 
l-2in., oblong or elliptic, tip rounded, acute or obtuse ; 
“variable,” says Trimen, “lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 
nearly rotundate, glabrous or slightly pubescent, somewhat 
paler beneath nerves 6-8 pairs ; slender. Petiole iV|in. ; 
stipules small, subulate, persistent, hard. Flowers pink, soli- 
tary or several together on slender, axillary peduncles. Calyx- 
segments ovate, membranous, alternating with glands of the 
disk. Male flowers Stamens 5, filaments of the 3 inner longer, 
connate. Female flowers: — Ovary, 5-10-celled (Brandis), 4-5-celled 
(Trimen ) ; styles short; minutely lobed ; stigmas short; ovules 
2 in each cell, superposed. Fruit a purple berry, sweetish when 
ripe, shining, smooth, depressed, globose. |-£in. diam., often 
racemose on leafless branches. Seeds 8-14, triquetrous, finely 
granulate, superposed in each cell, bluntly trigonous. 
Uses : — The leaves are employed as a diuretic and cooling 
medicine in Sind. (Stocks.) The bark is considered alterative 
