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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. ' 
These resalts indicate that the oil belongs to the class of drying oils 
typified by linseed oil, and would be suitable for the manufacture of soft 
soap and in the preparation of oil-varnishes, paints and linoleum and other 
similar purposes, to which oils of this class are applied industrially. (Agricul- 
tural Ledger— 1907— No. 4.) 
1146. Croton retieulatus, Heyne, h.f.b.t.,v. 386. 
Vern. Pdndhari or pandharisili (Mar.). 
Habitat : — Deccan Peninsula, from the Concan southwards. 
A shrub with slender, terete branches. Branchlets, leaves 
beneath and inflorescence silvery, lepidote. Leaves ovate or 
elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, quite entire, shortly 3-nerved at 
the base, opposite and alternate, 4-10in., smooth and glabrous 
above, base acute or rounded ; petiole J-IJin., rusty, lepidote. 
Racemes few-fid, shorter than the leaves. Sepals of male oblong ; 
margins woolly, twice as large as the woolly oblong petals. 
Stamens glabrous except at the villous base, 15-18. Sepals of 
female linear, oblong, accrescent in fruit, sometimes Jin. long. 
Ovary globose, stellately lepidote. Styles very variable, usually 
2-partite, with long, slender, unequally 2-fid arms. Capsule Jin. 
long, broadly oblong, stellately lepidote. 
Use : — The bark is used as a bitter and stomachic. (S. 
Arjun.) 
1147. C. dblongifolhis, Roxb., h.f.b.i., v. 386, 
Roxb. 688. 
Vern. Chucka (Patna); Baragach (B.) ; Arjunna (Oudh) ; 
Ach (Nepal) ; ICurti, konya, kuli, poter (Kol.) ; Putri (Lohar- 
dugga) ; Gote (Santal) ; Kote, putol (Mai.) ; Burma, parokupi 
(Ass.) ; Bhutan kusam (Tel.) ; Gonsur (Goa) ; Ganasura (Mar.). 
Habitat : — Bengal, Ceylon, Behar, Central India and the 
Deccan Peninsula. 
A small, deciduous, often gregarious tree. Bark lin. thick, 
grey or brownish, inner bark red, coarsely fibrous. Wood yel- 
lowish-white, moderately hard. Branches rather stout. Shoots, 
young leaves, branchlets, inflorescence, calyx and ovary densely 
clothed with minute, orbicular, silvery scales. Leaves rather 
coriaceous, pale-green, glabrous when full grown, oblong-lanceo- 
late, penninerved, more or less serrate, blade 5-10in. ; petiole 
