N. 0. 0BTICA0EJ3. 
1183 
1171. Streblus asper , Lour., H.F.B.I., v. 489. 
Syn. Trophis aspera, Retz., Roxb. 714. 
Sans. : — Sdkhotaka. 
Vern . : — Siord, karchanna, rusa, daheya (H.) ; Sheora, (B.;; 
Hara saijung (Kol.) ; Sahra (Santal) ; Sahuda (Uriya) ; Nugnai 
(Magh); Karasni (Gond.) ; Jindi, dahya (Pb.) ; Karvati, karera, 
karaoli, karcbanua, rusa (Bomb.); Prayam, palpirai (Tam.);. 
Bariniki, bari venka, barranki, pakki (Tel.) ; Mitli, punje (Kan.). 
Habitat : — Drier parts of India, from Rohilkbund, eastward 
and southward to Travancore, etc. 
A small, evergreen, rigid, shrub or scraggy, gnarled tree, 
attaining 20ft. in height. Bark fin. thick, soft, light-grey, 
irregularly ribbed. Wood white, moderately hard, no heart- 
wood, no annual rings. All parts full of milky juice. Branch- 
lets many, tomentose or pubescent. Leaves elliptic or obovate, 
penni-nerved, irregularly dentate, rough on both sides, with 
minute, raised, round dots, blade 2-4in., petiole very short, about 
i l gin. long, stipules obliquely lanceolate. Flowers dioecious. 
Male in globose heads ; perianth campanulate, deeply 4-fid, 
pubescent outside ; sepals 4, imbricate. Stamens 4, long, inflexed 
in bud. Females solitary, on axillary, usually fascicled pedun- 
cles, fin. long, perianth yellow, of 4 decussate ; closely imbricate 
sepab. Ovary straight, retuse ; styles 2, filiform, connate at 
base. Ovule pendulous. Fruit a yellow, l-seeded, pisiform 
berry, enclosed in enlarged, fleshy sepals. Seed globose ; testa 
membranous ; albumen 0; embryo globose ; one cotyledon, very 
large, fleshy, enclosing the other, which is very small, and the 
upcurveth radicle. 
Uses : — The milky juice has jistringent and antiseptic quali- 
ties, and is applied to sore heels and chapped hands. The 
bark in decoction is given in fevers, dysentery and diarrhoea. 
The roots are used as an application to unhealthy ulcers and 
sinuses. It is said to be an antidote to snake poison. 
1172. Morus indica, Linn., h.f.b.i., v. 492. 
Syn. ■ — M. alba, Var. Indica. Roxb. 658. 
Sans. Shdlmali, tula, tuda. 
