n. o. euphorbia™*:. 
1139 
and attenuant, and is prescribed in decoction in the quantity 
of four ounces or more twice daily. (Ainslied The juice of the 
leaves is used medicinally in the Konkan. It is made into a 
pill with camphor and cubebs, which is allowed to dissolve 
in the mouth as a remedy for bleeding from the gums, it is also 
reduced to a thin extract along with the juice of other 
alterative plants and made into a pill with aromatics. This 
pill is given twice a day, nibbed down in milk as an alter- 
ative in ‘ heat of the blood’. (Dymock.) 
11.30. P. Emblica, Linn., ii.f.b.i., v. 280 ; Roxb. 
684. 
S am. : — Dhatriphaln, Amritaphala, Amalakam, Shri-phalam, 
fxninam. 
Vern. : — Aonl£, (IT.) ; Ambliy (Arab.); Amelah (Pers.) ; 
Ambul, ambli (Pb.) ; Amla, amlaki (B. and Ass.); Ambari (Garo) ; 
Neli, nellekai (,Tam.); Shabju, ziphiyusi (Burm.) ; Anvala (Mar.). 
Hahitat : — Throughout Tropical India, wild or planted, from 
t he base of the Himalaya, from Juramoo eastwards, and south- 
wards to Ceylon. 
A moderate-sized, deciduous, pretty and ornamental tree. 
Bark somewhat less than -jin., thick, light grey, exfoliating in 
irregular patches; inner substance red. Wood red, hard, close- 
grained, warps and splits in seasoning ; no heartwood. Branch- 
lets mostly deciduous, finely pubescent or glabrous. Foliage 
feathery, light green. Leaves equal and distichous, symmetri- 
cally close; set like the leaflets of a pinnate leaf, glabrous, pube- 
rulous beneath, £-Jin. long, sub-sessile, linear-oblong, acute or 
mucronate. Stipules minute, ovate, finely acute. Flowers apetal- 
ous, monoecious, greenish-yellow, in axillary clusters. Male 
flowers : — Numerous and shortly pedieillate ; stamens 3, joined 
in a short column. Disk, of distinct glands, alternating with 
the calyx-segments, rarely 0. Female-flowers few, sub-sessile. 
Sepals as in male. Disk cupular, lacerate. Ovary 3-celled, with 
2 ovules in each cell ; styles 3, connate at the base, twice bifid. 
