1158 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
silky below. Female flowers : — sepals ovate, or oblong sub-acute, 
scabrid ; petals very minute, subulate, long-eiliate ; disk low, 
hirsute. Ovary densely woolly; styles bilid, arms long, slender. 
Capsule large, globose, or broadly oblong, woody, f-lin. long 
or broad, terete or with 6 slender ridges, densely rusty, scabridly 
pubescent, 6-valved, from the top downwards. Seeds very 
variable, dorsal I y compressed, slightly rugose. The variable 
fruit is the remarkable character of this plant. (J. D. Hooker.) 
Use : — Mr. Home says the leaves are applied as a poultice 
to sprains. 
1149. 0. Tiglium, Linn., h.f.b.t., v. 393 ; Roxb. 
688. 
Sans. : — Jayapala ; Kanakaphala. 
Vern. : — Jaypal (B.) ; Jamal-gota (H. and Mar.) ; Napal 
(Guz. and Kan.); NervMam (Tam) ; NepMa-vitna (Tel.); 
Nir valam (Mai.) 
Ilahitat Bengal, Assam and southward to Malacca, Burma 
and Ceylon. 
A small, evergreen tree. The youngest shoots sparsely stel- 
lately hairy. Leaves membranous, glabrous, ovate, acuminate, 
more or less serrate, 2-4in., glands mino^, sessile, 3-5 basal- 
nerves- Petiole 1-2'm. slender. Racemes 2-3in. Rachis glab- 
rous ; bracts subulate. Male flowers : — pedicels stellately hairy ; 
sepals nearly glabrous, tips bearded ; petals narrow, woolly- 
edged. Stamens 15-25, glabrous, receptacle, villous ; disk-glands 
5, small. Female flowers : — Sepals villous at the base within. 
Petals 0. Disk obscure, annular. Styles slender, 2 partite. 
Ovary, stellately hispid and oblong. Capsule -f-lin. long, white, 
turbinately obovoid, obtusely trigonous. Seeds £-fin., oblong, 
obtusely trigonous, pale. 
Use : — The seeds and oil are officinal in both the Pharma- 
copeias and their uses are too well known to be mentioned here. 
1150. Orozopliova tinctoria, A. Juss., h.f.b.i., v. 
408. 
Vern. : — -Tappal buti, nilam, kukronda (Pb.); Shadevi, son- 
balli, subali (PI.) 
