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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
stigma cylindric or clavate. Receptacles finely pubescent 
while young. Fruit sessile, yellow or reddish ; fin. diara.; 
basal broadly ovate, obtuse, spreading. 
Uses : — The bark of the root, the root itself, and the leaves 
boiled in oil form good applications for wounds and bruises. 
(Rheede.) 
In rheumatic headache, the leaves and bark pounded are 
applied as a poultice. In flatulent colic, the following pre- 
scription is used in the Concan : — Take of Nandruk leaf juice, 
Tulsi leaf juice, and ghi equal parts; boil until all the water 
has evaporated ; do this again 21 times with fresh quantities of 
the juice of the two plants ; the residuum may then be applied 
to the belly, and fomentation with hot brick be practised. The 
juice of the bark has a reputation in liver disease ; dose 1 tola 
in milk. (Dymock.) 
1179. F. Rumphii, Blume, h.f.b.i., v. 512. 
V ern. : — Kabar, gajna, pfpul, gajiun, pipal, gagjaira, pakar, 
khabar (Hind.); Gaiaswat (Beng.) ; Suman-pipar Kol.) ; 
Sunamjor (Santal); Pakri (Assam); Sat-bur (Cachar) ; Pakar 
(Nepal); Prab (Garo) ; Kabai pipal (Kumaon) ; Puldkh, rumbal, 
badha, palak, pilkhan (Pb.) ; Par£s, pipal (Raj.) ; Pair, payar, 
asht (ashta), (Mar.) ; Kabai pipal, ganjar, suman, pipar (Lohar- 
dugga) ; Nyung byu (Burm.) 
Habitat : —On the dry lower slopes of the mountains of 
the Punjab ; and the Northern, Western and Central Tndia, 
Assam. 
A large, deciduous tree, often epiphytic, all parts glabrous. 
“ Bark smooth, grey, fin. thick. Wood very soft, spongy, with 
alternating bands of loose and firm tissue of equal width. 
Pores oval, scanty, moderate-sized. Medullary rays fine, 
uniform, equidistant.” (Gamble.) Leaves sub-coriaceous, upper 
surface minutely tuberculate when dry, shining, long-petiolate, 
broadly ovate, with acuminate apex ; edges entire, sub-undulate; 
base broad, but slightly narrowed towards the petiole ; basal 
nerves 5, rarely 7 (2 being minute) ; lateral primary nerves 3-6 
pair, rather irregular, prominent only in the young state ; 
