1204 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Habitat : — Evergreen forests of the Western ghats, from the 
Coucan southwards. 
A tall ever-green tree, attaining 200ft. Wood moderately 
hard ; sapwood white ; heart wood yellowish-brown, durable, 
seasons well. Pores large, sometimes subdivided, often filled 
with a white substance. Medullary rays fine to moderately 
broad, wavy very distinct, but distant, bent where try meet the 
pores (Gamble.) Young shoots, petioles, peduncles, stipules, 
midribs, and main nerves appressedly hispjid with long tawny 
hairs. Leaves 6-9 by 4-6in., broadly ovate or elliptic (rarely 
obovate), subacute, coriaceous, entire, smooth, and when adult 
glabrous except on the midrib and nerves beneath, slightly 
narrowed to the base ; main nerves about 10 pairs, prominent 
beneath ; petioles stout, |-fin. long ; stipules nearly lin. long, 
lanceolate. Flowers on axillary pedunculate receptacles ; the 
male receptacles narrowly cylindric, at first erect or ascending, 
afterwards pendulous, 4-6in. long and about £in. in diam. ; 
the female receptacles erect, 4£ by 3ain. Male flowers : 
Sepals 2, united below. Stamen 1 ; anther exserted, ovate. 
Receptacle scales (bracteoles) chaffy, not peltate. Female 
floweks : Perianth tubular, confluent below with the receptacle. 
Fruit size of a lemon, echinate, the spines (free apices of 
anthocarps) about lin. long, cylindric, straight, hispid, 
perforate at the apex for the filiform style, edible Seeds 
|-|in. long, ovoid. (Cooke.) 
Uses The dry leaves and juice together with Zodory and 
Camphor are applied to buboes and swelled testicles. (Rheede.) 
The dried juice breaks with a resinens fracture, is only partly soluble 
in alcohol, wholly soluble in benzol and petroleum ether. (Pharmacogr. 
lnd. III. 355.) 
1191 . A. integrifolia, Linn., h.f.b.i., v. 541 . 
Sans. : — Panasa. 
V ern. Kanthal (B. and Ass.) ; Katlial, chakki, panasa, 
panas (H.) ; Kanthar (Santal) ; Poros (Kol.) ; Panasa (Uriya) ; 
Phanas (Mar. and Bomb.) ; Pil6, pildpazham (Tam.) ; Pauasa- 
pandu, pansa, veru-panasa (Tel.) ; Halsu, heb-helsu, halsina 
(Kan.) ; Teprong (Garo). 
Eng. : — The Jack-fruit tree. 
