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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
whoso composition is C 15 H u 0,,-. The analytical results given by those 
substances were nearly identical.— J. Ch. S. 1905 T. p. 717. 
1192. A. Lakoocha, Roxb., h.f.b.i., v. 543; Roxb. 
634. 
Sans ■ : — Lakuclia. 
Vern. : — Tiun, tinu dheu, daheo, (Pb.) ; Dabu dhan, barlial, 
lakuch, dhava, (H.);Lalm (.Bomb. and Duk.); Votamba (M.); 
Vonte (Ivan.); Dhao (Kumaong Dephal, dabu, debua, lakuclia, 
madar (B.); Dabu (Santal ; Kol.); Dewa, chama, ebamba (Ass.); 
Dawa (Cacbar) ; Barrar (Nepal) ; Kamma regu ; Lakucbamu 
nakka-renu (Tel.). 
lla'ntat : —Tropical Himalaya, from Kumaon eastwards to 
Burma, and southwards to Travancore. 
A large, deciduous tree. Bark dark coloured rough. Wood 
bard, sapwood large, white and soft ; heartwood yellow, bard, 
shining, mottled. Branchlets densely grey pr rustytoment- 
ose. Leaves ovate or obovate, 3£-12in. by 2-Gin., shortly 
finely acuminate or cuspidate at apex, truncate or sub-cordate at 
base ; margins entire, sometimes serrate or subundulate in youDg 
leaves, coriaceous, glabrous, shining above, densely grey-downy 
beneath ; lateral nerves 8-12 pair, prominent and with a fine, 
distinct reticulation between beneath. Petioles £-lin. long. 
Stipules small, pubescent, caducous. Flowers in shortly 
pedunculate or sub-sessile, axillary, globose heads, ’|-1 in. 
diam.; bractiofes peltate. Male flowers : — sepals on sub-sessile 
receptacles, 3-4, triangular, truncate, pubescent, 2-3, says Trimen. 
Stamen 1 ; filaments broad at base, tapering upward. Anther 
exserted, broad, 2-celled. Female flowers on shortly peduncled 
receptacles. Anthocarps flat, smooth, at apices, completely united. 
Fruit oblong, irregularly globose, 2-3in. diam., minutely velvety, 
yellow when ripe, edible. Seeds oblong, lin. thick, flat. 
Use:-— In Bengal, one or two seeds or a small quantity of 
the milk is popular as a purge. (Dymock!) Fruit eaten raw or 
dried and pickled. (Talbot.) In the Ratuagiri District and 
Bombay, it is curried, as well as pickled. (K. JR. Kirtikar.) 
