N. 0. URTI0A0E.E. 
1195 
to rise from below the base of the receptacle) ; peduncle proper 
from 4 to lin. long. Male flowers with 3 or 4 cleft gamophyl- 
lous perianth and a single stamen. Gall flowers with a perianth 
like the males ; the ovary ovoid, smooth, with a short, lateral 
style. Fertile female flowers with gamophyllous 4-cleft perianth, 
the achene sub-globular, minutely tuberculate, with a hyaline, 
viscid, external coat, style long, lateral stigma cylindric. 
This is a polymorphic species, and often presents great 
variety- in foliage even in the same plant. (King.) 
Uses: — The juice of the root of this shrub is internally 
administered in colic pains, and the juice of the leaves mixed 
with milk in dysentery. The bark of the root, which is very 
bitter, pulverised and mixed with coriander seed, is considered 
a good remedy in coughs and asthma and similar affections of 
the chest. (Rheede.) 
1183. F. asperriama , Roxb., h.f.b.i., v. 522 ; 
Roxb. 644. 
Vern. : — Kal-ambar (Guj.) ; Kharwat (Mar.); Karakarbuda 
(Tel.) ; Khargas (Kan.); Irumbaruthan (Tam.) 
Habitat : — Central India and the Deccan Peninsula. 
A shrub or tree, all young parts very scabrous. Leaves 
collected about extremities of branches, alternate, petiolate, 
oblong-lanceolate to ovate or obovate or elliptic ; the apex blunt 
or acuminate ; the edges subentire, serrate, dentate or crenate in 
the upper three-fourths, and entire towards the rounded or 
blunt ;'3-nerved, primary nerves 3-5 pair, very prominent and 
hispid on lower surface, as are the reticulations ; the rest of the 
lower surface scabrid-hispid ; upper surface pretty uniformly 
and strongly scabrous, shortly hispid. Blade l|-5in. long, pe- 
tiole 5 -liu. long, stout, stipules minute. Receptacles pedunculate, 
often reflexed, scabrous-hispid, globular, slightly depressed at 
apex, with rather prominent umbilicus. Umbilical scales erect. 
Male flowers numerous in part of receptacles ; perianth of 4-5 
linear-lanceolate, scabrid pieces. Stamen 1. Ovary of gall- 
flowers ovate, lanceolate, with thick terminal style and dilated 
stigma ; the perianth like that of male flowers. Fertile female 
flowers with perianth of 6-7 linear-lanceolate, smooth pieces. 
