N. O. EUPHOBBIAOE®. 
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conserve. (Lindley.) Tts leaves are beaten up with green 
tobacco leaf and infusion of rice and applied to inveterate ulcers. 
(Rheede). 
1155. Trewia nudiflora, Linn., h.f.b.i., v. 423. 
Sans. : — Pindara, Karahata, Kurangaha. 
Habitat. : — Common in the hotter parts of India. 
A deciduous dioecious moderate-sized tree. Bark smooth 
grey. Wood white soft not durable. Young shoots, inflores- 
cence and sometimes full-grown leaves clothed with flocculent 
cottony wool or sometimes nearly glabrous. Leaves ovate, 
opposite, 5-7in., cordate at base, entire, acuminate, glabrous 
above, finely stellate-hairy on veins beneath, thin, bright green, 
somewhat 3-nerved at base. Petiole cylindric, 2-3in., finely 
pubescent. Stipules minute, acute, soon falling. Male flowers : 
— on slender horizontal pedicels. Racemes spicate, 4-6in., buds 
globose. Sepals valvate, concave. Female flowers : — Ovary 
globose, densely stellate-hairy style yellow thick erect, stigmas 
very long |-fin. Fruit about |in., roughish with scattered 
stellate hairs. Seed brown, broad pericarp thick, almost woody. 
Flowers pale green. 
Uses. : — It is described in the Nighantas as sweet and cooling, 
useful for the removal of swelling, bile and phlegm ; the root 
is prescribed in gouty or rheumatic affections. 
Rheede states that the root in decoction is used to relieve 
flatulence, and is applied locally in gout (Pharmacographia 
Indica, Vol. III., p. 295). 
1156. Mallotus philippinensis, Muell., h.f.b.i., 
v. 442. 
Syn. : — Rottlera tinctoria, Roxb. 737 ; R. aurantiaca, Hook. 
and irn.; R.-affinis, Hassk .; R. Montana and Mollis, Wall.-, Croton 
philippinensis, Lamk.; C. Punctatus, Retz.\ C. coccineus, 
Vahl.\ G. montanus, Willd ; C. distans, Wall.-, C. cascarilloides, 
Rauesch. 
Sans. Kapiln, Kampilla rechanaka Madhukah (Punnaga 
