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Syn. :— Limonia monophylla, Linn, Roxb. 363.

Sans. :— Atavi-jambira.

Vern. : — Mákad-limbu (Mar.); Narguni (Uriya) ; Adavi-nimma (Tel.) Kathe-elumichcham-param, Katyalu (Tam.); Kán-nimbe, adavi-nimba (Kan.) ; Mal-nárangá (Mal.) ; Jangli-nimbu (Dec); Mátangnár (S. Konkan.)

Habitat : — Sylhet at the foot of the Khasia Mountains; throughout the Western Peninsula, from Konkan and Coromandal southwards. Ceylon, not uncommon towards the north of the Island ; in dry regions common. Tamil name in Ceylon :— Perunkuruntu (Trimen).

A small tree or shrub, with numerous rigid branches, the elder ones armed with short spines, young parts glabrous. Wood very hard and heavy, close-grained, yellow. Leaves 1½-3in. ; rhomboid-lanceolate, acute at base, obtuse, deeply notched at apex, glabrous, thick- veiny ; petiole short, slightly pubescent, with one or two linear or setaceous, stipular scales at base. Flowers ½in., rather crowded in axillary umbels or corymbs. Pedicels ¼in., glabrous, bracts small, ciliate. Calyx glabrous, irregularly split to base. Petals white obovate-oblong, obtuse, recurved. Stamens 8 ; filaments completely connate into a long tube and sometimes adnate to petals at base ; anthers broadly ovoid ; ovary oblong, glabrous, 4-celled, style short, no gynophore. Berry globular-ovoid, ¼in., with a long apiculus, 4-celled, 4-seeded.

Uses: — " The berries of this yield a warm oil which is, in native medicine, considered as a valuable application in chronic rheumatism and paralysis (AINSLIE.)

In the Concan, the leaf juice is an ingredient in a compound liniment used in hemiplegia (DYMOCK.)

Habitat : — Valleys along the foot of the Himalaya, from Garhwal to Sikkim ; the Khasia Mountains, Garrow Mountains,