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Rh with horizontal lenticels. Wood white, moderately hard, close-grained. Pores small, numerous, in long radical strings between the fine, wavy medullary-rays, usually one or two rays without pores between the string. Faint, rather distant, concentric lines which may be annual rings" (Gamble). Leaves simple, 1-l½ in., ovate or oblong, acute, obtuse or mucronate. Flowers yellowish white or greenish white, 1 in. diam.; corymbs few-flowered, terminal; bracts small, subulate. Sepals ovate; claw of petals narrow. Petals 4, limb oblong, ovate; Stamens 4. Disk process ¾ in. curved pink, smooth, fimbriate. Fruit cylindric, dehiscent, 1-l½ in. long, irregularly torulose; pulp orange. Flowers October-March.

Uses:—The leaves and root are considered deobstruent and anthelmintic, and are prescribed in decoction in uterine obstructions (Murray. 55.)

Habitat::-Dry places in the Punjab, at Multan and in Sindh.

A straggling, much-branched shrub. Wood white, soft, even-grained; Pores small, single or few or many in radial strings between the rays, there being usually a few rays without pores between each pair that contains them. Medullary rays very fine, regular, numerous. Leaves ¼-½ in. rarely 1 in., hoary, ovate or oblong, obtuse. Flowers as in C. indica, but petals very narrow, 4, spathulate. Stamens 5. Fruit ½-1½ in. cylindric (Hooker, f. and Thorns.): — "Delessert's Icones represent 6 stamens, we find 5 only. Fl. B. I. Vol. I, p. 173.

Uses : — It is used medicinally in Sindh.

Syn. : — C. Murrayana, Graham,

Vern. : — Kabra, ber (H.); ulra Kanta (Kumaon); Kaur, Kiari, bauri, ber, bandar, bassar, Kakri, Kander, taker, borar, Keri, Kaba, barari (Pb).; Kalvari (Sind.); Kabar (Bom).