1198 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
action of the bark is generally attended with more or less 
purging. The dose is placed at from forty to sixty grains. 
The bark, in doses of from fifteen to thirty grains, three or four 
times daily, is stated to act effectually as an antiperiodic, and 
in half those quantities as a good tonic. (Ph. Ind.).. 
1185. F. Cunia, Bam., h.f.b.i., v. 523. Roxb. 
646. 
Vern . : — Khewnau, Kunia, khurhur, kassa, gliui (H.); 
Dumbur, jagya-dumur (B.) ; Riu, aiu (Kol.); Porok podha 
Horpodo (Santal); Kanhya (Nepal); Sangji (Lepcha) ; Kanai, 
palkai taikran (Miclii) ; Ivathgular, trumbal, karndol, kuri 
(Pb.) ; Porodumer, Kharwar. (Mar.) 
Habitat : — Sub-Himalayan forests, from the Chenab to 
Bhotan ; Central India, Assam, the Khasia Mts. and Chittagong. 
A small or moderate-sized tree, usually evergeen branchlets, 
young shoots and midrib pubescent. “ Bark thick, reddish- 
brown, rough ; wood rough, moderately hard, greyish-brown 
with narrow, concentric bands which alternate with broader 
bands of firmer texture. Pores scanty, moderate-sized. Medul- 
lary rays fine, equidistant.” (Gamble). Leaves alternate, entire 
or serrate, rough above, more or less pubescent beneath, semicor- 
date, the lower half of the base large rounded, shape and size 
very variable ; blade 816 ; petiole J-|in. ; stipules f-lin. long, 
base broad, scar, annular. Receptacle |in. diam., in pair or 
clusters on long, leafless, scaly branches, from the trunk near 
the base of the ripening underground. Male sepals 3. Gall 
and female sepals abut 4, lanceolate, gtimophyllous. Ovary of 
galls, globose, smooth ; style very short, lateral. Achenes 
broadly ovate, emarginate on one side, tubercled, viscid ; style 
very long, lateral ; stigma large, bifid. Recognized at once by 
the long leaves with unequal semi-sagittate base. 
Uses : — The fruit is given in aphthous complaints. A bath 
made from the fruit and bark is a cure for leprosy. (Rheede.) 
The juice from the roots is given in bladder complaints and, 
boiled in milk, in visceral obstructions. (Revd. A. Campbell.) 
