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Rh Habitat :— On hot hills, alt. 500-2,500ft., abundant through- out the Deccan, and from Assam to Singapore.

A large climbing shrub. Bark very thin, light brown, smooth. Wood soft to moderately hard, porous, light, reddish brown. Branches drooping, young shoots rusty-villous. Leaves opposite, ovate, shortly acuminate, entire. Flowers bisexual, in tomentose terminal and axillary panicles, free portion of Calyx infundibuliform, petals 0, stamens 10, inserted in two lines on the inside of the Calyx-tube, the 5 upper alternating with the Calyx-teeth. Fruit 5-ribbed, villous, ¼in. long, surmounted by the enlarged Calyx, the segments of which are ½-lin. long.

Parts used : — The leaves, root, and fruit.

Uses : — The leaves are bitter and astringent, and are chewed by the natives, and the juice swallowed as a remedy for colic. The root ground to a paste with that of Croton oblongi-folium is applied to bites of the phoorsa snake (Echis carinata). In jaundice, the fruit and various spices, of each one part, are made into a compound powder, of which the dose is two mashas. The fruit, with the root of Grewia pilosa, is rubbed into a paste with honey and applied to ulcers (Pharmacographia Indica, Vol. II., p. 15).

Syn. : — Conocarpus latifolia, D. C.

Sans. : — Dhava.

Vern. : — Dhâoya (H. and B.) ; Dhavadâ ; Dabria (Bomb.); Vallai-naga, vackelie (Tam.) ; Dinduga, dindlu, bejalu, dindal (Kan.) ; Arma, yerma (Gond.). Bâkli, Dhauri ; Dhao (Bundel-khand).

Habitat : — Very common, from the Himalaya to Ceylon, not found in the Transgangetic Peninsula.

A large deciduous tree, attaining 80ft., but usually a small tree. Bark smooth, whitish grey, 1/6in. thick, with shallow irregular depressions caused by exfoliation. Wood grey, hard, shining, smooth, with a small purplish, irregularly shaped, very hard heartwood ; sapwood in young trees and young