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548 elliptic or ovate, sometimes obovate-oblong ; blade 5-9, petiole ¼-½in. long, nearly opposite, the uppermost often alternate ; 1-2 glands near base of midrib ; underside when full-grown, as a rule, soft tomentose, nearly glabrous, secondary nerves. 10-20 pair. Flowers bisexual, dull yellow, in erect terminal panicles, the lower branches in the axils of leaves. Calyx-limb, a shallow cup, hairy within, segments 5, broad, ovate, acute. Fruit l½-2in. long, with 5 coriaceous brown wings, ¾-lin. broad, and marked with numerous horizontal lines running from the axils to the edges, which are thin and irregularly crenulate.

Use : — A docoction of the bark is taken internally in atonic diarrhœa, and locally as an application to weak indolent ulcers. (Ph. Ind.).

Syn. : — Pentaptera Paniculata, Roxb. 384.

Vern. : — Kinjal (Bomb.) ; Pe-karakai (Tam.); Neemeeri (Tel.) ; Honal, huluvâ, hulve, hunâb (Kan.).

Habitat : —Malabar, lower hills, from Bombay to Cochin ; Nilghiri and Kurg Mountains.

A very large deciduous tree. Bark ¼in. thick, dark-brown, peeling off: in flat flakes. Wood grey, with darker heart-wood, very hard, new growths rusty-tomentose. Leaves 4-7in., subopposite, upper alternate, base cordate, two glands generally present near the base of the midrib beneath. Petiole ¼-½in. long, rusty-pubescent, sessile, close set in large spreading panicles, the front edge ovary growing out into a wing which is ¾-lin. broad.

Use : — The country people use the juice of the fresh flowers rubbed with Parwel root (Cocculus Villosus) as a remedy in cholera, and in poisoning with opium, 4 tolas of the juice with an equal quantity of guava bark juice is given frequently. In parotitis, the juice with ghi and Saindhav (rock salt) is applied. In cholera, about 4 tolas of the juice with an equal quantity of Parwel root is given every hour (Dymock).

Vern. :— Bandi-murududu (Tel); Bâguli, Ukshi (Mar.); Kokoranj (Hind.) ; Marsada, Baguli (Can.)