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Vern. : — Agúre (Tam.) ; gatrinta ; tivoa potike ; vendapa ; Káki bira (Tel.) ; Modera Canni (Mal.)

Trimen gives the following names : —

Sinhalese : — Maha-getiya, Bugetuya ;

Tamil : — Motirakanni.

Habitat : — Western Peninsula, from the Concan to Travancor. Ceylon, low country.

In the Konkan, near the sea-coast, at Vingorla ; Northern Circars and the Karnatic ; Ceylon (Trimen, Fl. Ceylon, 1. 189.)

A climbing shrub, scrambling ; branches spreading, set with numerous short, stiff, yellow-tomentose branchlets. " Bark yellowish-white, corky. Wood greyish-white, hard, close- grained. Pores small, very numerous and evenly distributed. Medullary rays very faintly marked, numerous, regular." (Gamble). Branches leafless below, bearing in the axils of the lowest leaves a pair of woody, reflexed, circinate, tomentose pines (modified peduncles occasionally bearing flowers), above them tufts of leaves and axillary flowers. (Brandis). Leaves alternate, stipules subulate. Flowers yellow, 1 in. across. Sepals 5, unequal, imbricate. Petals 5, contorted. Stamens 10; filaments connate at base. Ovary 5-celled, styles 5, distinct- Drupe red or yellow, ½ in. long, endocarp bony, grooved ; Seeds 2-3 (Brandis). Flowering time, May-October.

Uses : — The bruised roots are employed externally in reducing inflammatory swellings, and as an antidote to snake- bites. In the form of a powder, it is administered internally as an anthelmintic and febrifuge. The bark of the root is also employed as an antidote to poisons (Watt).

Syn.: — E. indicum, Bedd Fl. Sylv. p. 81. Sethia Indica D.C.

Vern ; Nât-kâ-devdâr (Dec.) ; Devdarum, Chemmanally (Tam.) ; Adivi geranta, pagadapu-katta (Tel.)