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Vern. : — Wagati, Wâkeri, Kuldgajga(M.); Hooliganji, Vagati (Kan.).

Habitat : — Western Presidency.

A robust, woody, prickly, climbing shrub, with long trailing prickly branches. Leaves abruptly bipinnate, ¾-lft. long and broad. Pinnæ 8-10 pair ; leaflets glabrous, elliptic-oblong, l-2in. long, nearly sessile, oblong, acute, rigidly sub-coriaceous, venulose. Flowers nearly subsessile, in long dense spikes, bright scarlet on a thick furrowed brown-velvety racing. Bracts minute, lanceolate, cuspidate. Calyx scarlet, campanulate, ⅜in., segments 5, the lowest much longer than the others. Petals orange, 5, equal, oblanceolate, inserted with the stamens on the side of the disk lining the Calyx-tube. Pod indehiscent, 4-5- seeded, more or less constricted between seeds.

Use : -The pods (Tere pods) contain a large proportion of tannic acid. Roots used in cases of pneumonia (Talbot's List of Trees, Shrubs and Woody Climbers of the Bombay Presidency, 2nd edition, p. 143). Bark yields a dye material and is used as an application for skin diseases.

Syn. : — Cathartocarpus Fistula (Pers.).

Eng. : — The Indian Laburnum or Purging Cassia.

Sans. : — Suvarnaka, araghadha, rajataru.

Vern. :— Amaltás, girmálah (H. and D.); Alash, ali, karangal, kiar, kaniár (Pb.) ; Rajbriksk, kitola (Kumaon) ; Rájbriksha (Nepal); Chimkani (Sind.); Sundáh, sonali, ámultás, bandarláti (B.) ; Nurnic (Santah); Hari (Kol.) ; Sonalu (Garo) ; Sanaru (Ass.); Bandolat (Cachar); Sandari or Sunari (Uriza) ; Kitawáli, sitoli, itola, bhimarra, sim (N. W. P.) ; Warga (Oudh) ; Jaggarwah, raila, pirojah, karkacha (C. P.); Jaggra, jugarûa, kambar, rera (Gond.); Báhavá, bháwá, baya, bawa(Mar.) ; Garmal or Sarmâlâ ( Guz.) ; Kouraili-kây, sharak-kouraik-kây, koue (Tam.) ; Reylu,