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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
uvula and tonsils are swelled. The bark is astringent. Further 
information upon the medicinal properties of this plant is 
wanted. (Dymock.) 
1138 . Putranjiva Roxburghii . Wall., h.f.b.i., v. 
336 . 
Syn. : — Nageia Putranjiva, Roxb. 710. 
Suns : — Putra-jiva. 
Veru. : — Jiaputa, joti, putr-jiva, (H.) ; Putranjiva, jiaputa 
(B.) ; Pitoj (Sant.) ; Patajan, jiyaputra, seeds — jfapota ; leaves = 
prUrajivak (Pb.) ; Puta-jan, putra-jiva, jiv-putrak, jiwan-putr 
(Mar.) ; Karupali (Tam.) ; Kadrajuvi, lcudrajinie, mahaputra jivi 
yarala, kuduru juvir (Tel.) ; Pongalam (Mai). 
Habitat : — Wild and cultivated throughout Tropical India, 
from the Lower Himalaya in Kumaon, eastwards and south- 
wards to Pegu and Ceylon. 
A handsome, evergreen, moderate- sized, tree generally with 
pendant branches. Branchlets slender, minutely pubescent ; 
petioles pubescent ; foliage dark-green. Bark dark-grey, whitish 
when young, with numerous horizontal oblong lenticels. Wood 
grey, moderately hard, close-grained. Leaves obliquely obovate 
or ovate lanceolate, serrulate, 2-3in., obtuse, acute or acuminate, 
coriaceous, shining, base unequal-sided. Main lateral nerves 
8-10 pair, besides secondary nerves and reticalate veins. Petiole 
5 -i 3 oin. long ; stipules subulate, deciduous. Disk 0. Male flowers 
short, pedicelled, in axillary clusters which are often spicate ; 
calyx 3-5 partite ; stamens 3 ; filaments free or connate at the 
base. Female flowers long, pedicelled, axillary, solitary or in 
twos or threes; calyx 5-6-cleft, segments small, imbricate; 
stamens 3, filaments more or less connate. Ovary tomentose ; 
styles 3 ; stigmas crescent-shaped, fleshy. Fruit drupe, |in. long, 
ovoid or globose ; white tomentose on pedicels, |-in. long. Puta- 
men hard, pointed, rugose ; seed one. 
Uses: — The leaves and stones of the fruit are given in decoc- 
tion in colds and fevers. (Stewart.) 
The nuts are hung round the necks of children to keep them 
in good health. They are mentioned in the NighaHtas as being 
