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conserve. (Lindley.) Tts leaves are beaten np with green tobacco leaf and infusion of rice and applied to inveterate ulcers. (Rheede).

Sans. : — Pindâra, Karahâta, Kurangaha.

Habitat. : — Common in the hotter parts of India.

A deciduous dioecious moderate-sized tree. Bark smooth grey. Wood white soft not durable. Young shoots, inflorescence and sometimes full-grown leaves clothed with flocculent cottony wool or sometimes nearly glabrous. Leaves ovate, opposite, 5-7in., cordate at base, entire, acuminate, glabrous above, finely stellate-hairy on veins beneath, thin, bright green, -somewhat 3-nerved at base. Petiole cylindric, 2-3in., finely pubescent. Stipules minute, acute, soon falling. Male flowers : — on slender horizontal pedicels. Racemes spicate, 4-6in., buds globose. Sepals valvate, concave. Female flowers : — Ovary globose, densely stellate-hairy style yellow thick erect, stigmas very long ½-¾in. Fruit about ½in., roughish with scattered stellate hairs. Seed brown, broad pericarp thick, almost woody. Flowers pale green.

Uses. : — It is described in the Nighantas as sweet and cooling, useful for the removal of swelling, bile and phlegm ; the root is prescribed in gouty or rheumatic affections.

Rheede states that the root in decoction is used to relieve flatulence, and is applied locally in gout (Pharmacographia Indica, Vol. III., p. 295).

Syn. : — Rottlera tinctoria, Roxb. 737 ; R. aurantiaca, Hook. and Arn.; R. affinis, Hassk.; R. Montana and Mollis, Wall; Croton philippinensis, Lamk.; C. Punctatus, Retz. C. coccineus, Vahl. G. montanus, Willd ; C. distans, Wall.; C. cascarilloides, Rauesch.

Sans. :— Kapilâ, Kampilla rechanaka Madhukah (Punnaga