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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
N. 0. CASURINEiE. 
1197 Casuarina equisetifolia, Forst., H.F.B.I., 
v. 598. 
Syn. : — C. muricata, Rox'j. 623. 
Vent. : — Jangli saro, janglijhau, Vilayati saro (H.) ; Jan (B.); 
Jurijur, muj-jun (Sind) ; Sarpubala, sarova, suru (Mar.) ; Choulc, 
shavuku-marain, sbavaku-pattay (Tam.) ; Serva, cliavuku-mdnu, 
chavuku-patta (Tel.); Kasrike (Mysore); Sura (Kan.); Aru, 
chavaka-maram (Mai..}. 
Habitat : —On the east side of the Bay of Bengal from 
Chittagong southwards, cultivated elsewhere in India. Intro- 
duced into the plains’ as a roadside tree, and from its resemblance 
to the Tamarix received the vernacular names of tnis plant. 
The tree is very useful in the reclamation of land near the 
. s&a, and is much valued in the Madras and Bombay Presidencies 
for planting on sand-dunes along the coasts of Coromandel and 
N. Kanara. 
A large, evergreen tree, tall, straight-stemmed. Bark brown, 
rough, fibrous, peeling off in vertical strips. Wood reddish- 
brown, very hard, cracks and splits. The ends of branches 
thickly set with numerous, long, slender branchlets, which are 
mostly deciduous and fulfil the function of leaves. Branchlets 
jointed, the internodes |-iin. long, 6-8-ribbed, with fine hairs 
at the bottom of the furrows between the ribs and stomata in 
the furrows only. The ribs of each joint terminate upwards in 
the teeth of a membranous sheath, alternating with the ribs 
of the next joint above. Opposite these teeth are axillary 
vegetative buds, of which, as a rule, only one or few grow out 
into branchlets. These axillary buds mostly develops at the ends 
of branchlets where the joints have not yet lengthened out. Here 
the teeth of the annular sheaths are much longer (up to pin.) 
than on the lower and older joints, and they are densely clothed 
with fine hairs. Flowers uni-sexual. Males monandrous, axillary, 
under the teeth of the annular sheaths of terminal, short jointed, 
cylindric spikes lin., long. Perianth of 2 large scales enclosing 
the anthers and 2 smaller at right angles to the first, anthers 
