119(5 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Achene elongated, obovoid, minutely tubercular. Style lateral, 
filiform, stigma obovute. 
Uses: — The juice and bark are in Bombay well-known 
remedies for glandular enlargements of the abdomen, such as 
liver and spleen. (Dymock.) 
1184. F. hispicla, Linn., h.f.b.i., v. 522. 
Syn. F. oppositifolia, Willd., Roxb., 647. 
Sans. : — Kak dumbar. 
Vern. : — Kagsha, gobla, totmila, kat-gularia, konea-dumbar 
Katumbri Rambal, dumbar, Bhudoi (Hind.) ; Dumar, kak-dumar 
(Beng.f ; Kotang, sosokera (Kol.) ; Sita pordoh (Santal) ; 
Khoskaduinar (Ass.); Shakab (Garo) ; Koreh (Kurku) ; Kharwa 
(Nep.); Taksot (Lepcha); Poksha (Michi) ; Maiu-lok (Magh) ; 
Katumcr, bomair (Gond) ; Daduri, degar, nimbal (Pb.) ; I)he 
daumaro, jangali anjir (Guz.) ; Dhedumera Kharawat (Mar.); 
Pe-attis (Tam.) ; Bodamamadi, brahma-medi, bummarri, korasana 
(Tel.); Adavi-atti (Kan.); Pe-yatti paraka (Mai.). 
Habitat : — Throughout Tndia, from the Punjab in the N. W. 
to Malacca and Ceylon. 
A moderate-sized tree. Bark ^in. thick, grey, peeling off in 
irregular flakes, with slight, horizontal ribs encircling the tree. 
Wood soft, dirty-grey, in regular concentric bands of soft tissue 
which alternate with firmer bands of equal width and darker co- 
lour. Pores scanty, moderate-sized, often oval and sub-divided. 
Medullary rays moderately broad and fine, prominent as long, 
narrow bands on as radical section. (Gamble.) 
The tree is quick of growth, recognized easily by its oppo- 
site leaves. All parts more or less hispid pubescent, the bran- 
ches and, in Malayan specimens, the upper surfaces or the leaves 
sometimes glabrescent when old. Leaves opposite, usually, says 
King ; petiole membranous, ovate, ovate-oblong or elliptic to 
sub-ovate-elliptic, trpiculate or abruptly acuminate, edges den- 
tate or entire in old leaves, base rounded, emarginate, slightly 
