n. o. saI.icinka;. 
1217 
Sigrik (Santal) ; Bhesli (Cfaro) ; Blii (Assam); Patii jama 
(Beng.); Laila, bainsnj (N.-W. India); Bis, bitsa, baksbel 
(Pb.) ; Yir (Kashmir) ; Valunj, bacha (Dec.) ; Atrupalai (Tam.); 
Etipala (Tel.); Atrapala (Mai.) ; Momakha (Bunn.' ; Niranji 
(Kan.); Sufaida, badha (Sindh); Wullunj, bacha (Bombay); 
Boch, bach (M.) ; Dhanie (0. P.i 
Habitat: — Throughout tropical and Sub-tropical India, from 
the Punjab eastwards to Mishmi, Assam and Muimipore and 
southwards to Travancore. 
A moderate-sized, deciduous tree, 20-40ft. Bark rough, with 
deep, vertical, rough fissures. Wood red, soft, porous, even- 
grained. Flowering after leafing ; trunk stout, attaining 10ft. 
girth ; head large; branches sub-erect. Young shoots and young 
leaves silky ; branchlets and underside of leaves sometimes 
pubescent. Leaves 3-Gin., glabrous, glaucous beneath, lanceo- 
late, rarely ovate-lanceolate, minutely and regularly serrulate, 
acuminate. Lateral nerves numerous, prominent. Petiole 
L-l in. Stipules ovate or orbicular, deciduous. Peduncle leaf- 
leaving. Male catkins 2-4in., on leafy branchlets, sweet-scented ; 
bracts obovate or spathulate, pale, hairy ; stamens 5-10. Anthers 
minute. Female catkins 3-5in. long ; bracts pale, smaller. 
Disk small, £ annular. Capsules long, stipulate, glabrous or 
pubescent, in groups of 3-4. Pedicels as long as the capsule, 
lo gin, long. Stigmas 2, spreading, sub-sessile, generally 
entire. Seeds 4-0. Fruiting catkins, sometimes oiu. 
Uses: — The bark is stated by Dalzell and (jibson (Flora <>J' 
Bombay, p. ii., p. 82) to be of some account as a febrifuge. Mr. 
Long (, Journ . of Agri.-Hort. Soe. of India, 1858, vol. x., p. 43 ■ 
states that the bark yields “atonic substance.” If by this lie 
means Salicine (the crystalline principle found in some 
European species of Salix ), he is under a mistake, as Sir W. 
O’Shaughncssy carefully examined this bark, and failed to 
detect any trace of this principle. ( Bengal Disp., p. GOG). (PI 1. 
1ml.) 
1201. «. acuwphylla, lioitss., Ji.t’.it.i., v. 02S. 
Vent. : — Bed (Alg.) ; Budha (Sind.); Bisu, bada (Pb.) , 
Jahnala (Dchra Dun.) 
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