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INDIAN MEDIOINAI. PLANTS. 
the outer bark consisting o£ distinct, thin, papery layers, peeling 
off in broad, horizontal rolls. In these layers, the lenticels 
appear as pink, elongated, oblong patches. Wood white, with 
pinkish tinge, tough, even-grained, moderately hard. (Gamble). 
Youngest shoots and leaves pubescent. Pith oblong. Leaves 
2-3in. ovate, acuminate, irregularly serrate, glandular beneath, 
slightly hairy along midrib and nerves, which latter are in 
8-12 pair. Petiole 5-fin. Bracts of male spikes ciliate, stipulate ; 
anther-cells glabrous, save with a few hair at the tips. Female 
spikes solitary, stout ; bracts pubescent, l-2in. by 5-5U1. diam. 
Nuts with a narrow wing ; bracts in fruit coriaceous, deeply, 3- 
lobed, broader than the wings of the nut. 
Uses : — The decoction of the bark is used as a wash in 
otorrhcea and poisoned wounds. (U. C. Dutt ) The infusion of 
the bark is used as a carminative ; it is prescribed also in 
hysteria. It has also certain aromatic and antiseptic properties 
1199. Quercus incana, Roxb., h.f.b.i., v. 603; 
Roxb. 674. 
Vevn. : — Banj, ban or ban (Kumaon) ; Sila supari (Kashmir) ; 
Ban, ban, rin, rinj, vari, banj, maru, kliarshu, sbindar, kharpata 
serei, dagbun-ban (Pb.) 
Habitat : — Temperate Himalaya; from the Salt Range and 
Murree to East Nepal. 
An evergreen tree, attaining 50-80ft., and trunk 4-12ft. 
in girth ; bark dark-grey, rough with cracks and fissures. 
Leaves 3-6 by l-2in., oblong or ovate-oblong or ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, mueronate-serrate, tough and coriaceous, 
young pinkish and woolly all over, mature dark-green and 
glabrous above, densely white or grey, rarely brownish, 
tomentose beneath ; lateral nerves 12-20 pairs, straight, paral- 
lel ; base acute ; petiole 5-fin. long. Male spikes slender, 
drooping, 2-4in. long, often much interrupted ; perianth 4-5- 
lobed ; anthers glabrous. Female flowers axillary, sessile, soli- 
tary or clustered on current year’s shoots ; styles linear-clavate, 
spreading. Acorn generally solitary, usually on current year’s 
shoots ; cup at first enclosing the nut, glabrate, rough, woody ; 
