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Vern. :— Pisi (Bomb.).

Habitat: — A small tree or shrub of Sikkim, and of the Eastern and Western Gháts of South India and in Kanárá and Sattára, and particularly at Mahábaleshwar.

A moderate-sized tree in evergreen forest. Bark light- brown, smooth. Wood light-brown, moderately hard, even-grained. Branchlets and young leaves usually densely, softly, rusty-tomentose or villous. Buds large, silky. Leaves whorled, coriaceous, elliptic, ovate-lanceolate, finely acuminate, glabrous and shining above, but often tomentose beneath when full grown; blade 5-7in., petiole ⅓-⅔in.; secondary nerves 6-8 pair, the lowest pair often extending almost to the middle of the leaf. Clusters of female flowers sessile. Fruit ellipsoid, seated on the campanulate, entire perianth-tube.

Uses : — A cold infusion of the leaves is mucilaginous, and is used in urinary disorders and in diabetes. The oil of the seeds, Pisa-tela, is used as an external application to sprains ; it is of a reddish colour, and has a fatty odour. (Dymock.)

Syn. : — Tetranthera apetala, Roxb, 734.

Vern. : — Garbijaur, singrauf, medh, ménda, bark = maidâ-lakrí (Hind.) ; Kúkúr chita, ratún, garur, bark = maidà-chhâl (Beng.) ; Suppatnyok (Lepcha) ; Medasak, chandna, gwâ, riân, medachob, bark = méda-lakrî, maidasak (Pb.) ; leaves = chickanâ (Bomb.); bark = Mirio (Goa) ; Maida-lakadî (Mar.); mushaippé- yetti, pishin-pattai (Tam.) ; Narra alagi, nara mamidi, meda (Tel.).

Habitat :— Widely distributed throughout India.

A moderate-sized evergreen tree, 20-50ft., very variable in foliage and inflorescence. Bark lin. thick, brown. Wood greyish-brown or olive-grey, moderately hard, shining, close and even-grained. Inner bark viscid. Branchlets and inflores-