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̺1150 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS.

A much-branched, small tree. Young shoots glabrous. Wood hard, usually red, smooth, apt to split and warp. Leaves glabrous above, l-3in., sub-sessile, from oblong or lanceolate to orbicular-ovate or-obovate obtuse, acute or acuminate, brown when dry, reticulate and shining on both surfaces, coriaceous ; nerves usually very slender and obscure ; petiole very rarely , 1/12 in. Spikes simple or panicled, slender, pubescent, l-l½in. ; calyx 4-lobed, very minute. Disk glabrous ; stamens 3. Female flowers shortly pedicelled. Stigmas very short, sub-lateral. Fruit ¼in. diam., gibbously orbicular, turgid.

Use : — The leaves in decoction are used for snake-bites. (Balfour.)

Sans. : — Nikumba.

Vern. : — Addalay (Tam.) ; Dundigapu ; Nela-amida (Tel.) ; Lál-bherenda (B.); Verendi (Kol.); Undar-bibi, jangli-erandi (H.) ; Totla-gida (Kan.).

Habitat : — Deccan Peninsula, from the Concan southwards.

N.B.— The legend concerning the first springing up of the plant at Pandarpur mentioned by Dyniock (Pharmacogr. Ind. III. 272) and Cooke (Flora of Bomb. II. 597) is not true (K. R. K.).

A shrub or small, glaucous-looking, evergreen tree, with much clear yellowish juice ; trunk short, stout, dichotomously- branched, glabrous. Leaves 3-4in. long, and as broad, deeply 3-5-lobed ; lobes obovate or elliptic acuminate, or acute at the apex, leafy, cordate at the base, sharply serrate with glandular bristles at the serrature tips ; lateral nerves numerous, slender ; petioles 2-3in. long, not glandular, nor hairy. (K. R. K.). Stipules divided into capillary gland, tipped ; segments bracts setose and glaudular. Flowers greenish yellow, (Hooker, but Dymock says "dull red "), glandular, in long peduncled corymbose cymes. Male flowers greenish-yellow. Calyx ⅛in. long, glabrous, very deeply divided ; lobes ovate, obtuse. Corolla 5-lobed 5 lobes obtuse, 1/6in. ; tube very short. Stamens 8, connate at the base into a column, free above. Disk of 5 glands