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482 Habitat : — Central and Eastern Himalayas, Kumaon, East Bengal and South India.

A large, erect evergreen tree. Wood light reddish-brown, soft. Occasional faint, brown concentric belts of soft tissues. Young shoots drooping and beautifully light to deep crimson. Leaves sessile or subsessile ; leaflets 3-6 pair, oblong or oblong- lanceolate, acute or obtuse, 3-9in. long, rigidly sub-coriaceous. Flowers in dense corymbs, 3-4in. diam., orange on expanding, gradually turning bright scarlet. Peduncles and pedicels glabrous, coloured. Pedicels stout, ¼-½in. long, below the oblong-spathtilate, ascending-, amplexicaul bracteoles- Sepals ¼-⅓in., obovate-oblong. Calyx-tube, ½in. long, twice the length of lobes. Perfect stamens 7-8. Filaments thrice as long as the sepals. Pod 6-10 by 2in., valves hard, reticulate. Seeds 4-8, oblong, compressed, l½in. long.

Use : — The bark is much used by Hindu practitioners in uterine affections and especially in menorrhagia A decoction of the bark in milk is generally prescribed (Dutt).

Dr. Waring says that it proved useful in a recurring hæmorrhoidal tumour in a member of H H. the Maharajah of Travancore's family (B. M. J. and I. M. G., 1885, p. 260) Flowers pounded and mixed with water are used in hæmorrhagic dysentery (Watt).

Sans. : — Tintidi ; Amlika.

Vern. : — Amli ; imli (H.) ; Tentul (B. ); Amli; Chintz (Bomb.); Poolie (Tam.); Balam Poolie (Mal.); Chinta-chettu (Tel.); Karangi (Mysore).

Habitat : — Cultivated throughout India, as far north as the Jhelam.

A large, evegreen, unarmed tree. Bark ½in. thick, dark grey, with longitudinal fissures and horizontal cracks. Wood hard, close-grained ; sap wood yellowish white, sometimes with