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1196 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS.

Achene elongated, obovoid, minutely tubercular. Style lateral, filiform, stigma obovate.

Uses: — The juice and bark are in Bombay well-known remedies for glandular enlargements of the abdomen, such as liver and spleen. (Dymock.)

Syn. : — F. oppositifolia, Willd., Roxb., 647.

Sans. : — Kák dumbar.

Vern. : — Kagsha, gobla, totmila, kat-gularia, konea-dumbar Katumbri Rambal, dambar, Bhudoi (Hind.) ; Dumar, kak-dumar (Beng.) ; Kotang, sosokera (Kol.) ; Sita pordóh (Santal) ; Khoskadumar (Ass.); Shakab (Garo) ; Koreh (Kurku) ; Kharwa (Nep.) ; Taksot (Lepcha) ; Poksha (Michi) ; Maiu-lok (Magh) ; Katumer, bomair (Gond) ; Dadúri, degar, rúmbal(Pb.); Dhe daumaro, jangali anjir (Guz.) ; Dhedumera Kharawat (Mar.) ; Pe-attis (Tam.) ; Bodamamadi, brahma-médi, bummarri, korasana (Tel.); Adavi-atti (Kan.); Pe-yatti paraka (Mal.).

Habitat : — Throughout India, from the Punjab in the N. W. to Malacca and Ceylon.

A moderate-sized tree. Bark 1/5in. thick, grey, peeling off in irregular flakes, with slight,horizontal ribs encircling the tree. Wood soft, dirty-grey, in regular concentric bands of soft tissue which alternate with firmer bands of equal width and darker colour. Pores scanty, moderate-sized, often oval and sub-divided. Medullary rays moderately broad and fine, prominent as long, narrow bands on as radical section. (Gamble.)

The tree is quick of growth, recognized easily by its opposite leaves. All parts more or less hispid pubescent, the branches and, in Malayan specimens, the upper surfaces or the leaves sometimes glabrescent when old. Leaves opposite, usually, says King ; petiole membranous, ovate, ovate-oblong or elliptic to sub-ovate-elliptic, apiculate or abruptly acuminate, edges dentate or entire in old leaves, base rounded, emarginate, slightly