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Vern. : — Urumin (Kol) ; Kari (Santal). Ankole, Sengar bally (K).

Habitat : — Throughout India.

A diffuse or subscandent shrub, or an erect tree, 40ft. Bark brown, with large rough corky lenticels. Wood soft, porous, of peculiar structure ; round the central pith radiate in series of wedges of wood tissue ; round these comes a layer of bast tissue ; then a series of separate, round, concentrically arranged masses of wood tissue separated by bast tissue, then more layers of bast and similar masses of wood tissue, gradually getting smaller outwards (Gamble). Branchlets angular. Young shoots and inflorescence densely clothed with rust-coloured tomentum. Leaves 5 by 2in., obovate or obovate-oblong, abruptly acuminate, glabrescent, base attenuate, nerves 5-7 pair, distinct above. Petiole ⅓in. long. Flowers yellowish- white, in elongate narrow terminal panicles, 7 by 1½in. Bracts inconspicuous ; pedicels ⅛-1/6in. Calyx clothed outside with reddish-brown tomentum and more or less stellate-pubescent. Sepals 1/10in. Corolla ⅓-½in., petals crisped, tube broadly funnelshaped ; lobes 5, bifid, hairy on the back below the division, margins plicate. Anthers with a long curved apiculate connective. Berry ½in. diam., when ripe, black, ellipsoid, supported by the rusty-pubescent 5-lobed calyx.

Use: —In Chutia Nagpur, the bark is given for cholera (Revd. A. Campbell).

Vern— Phând (Mar.)

A large spreading shrub. Stems subherbaceous, hardly ever twinning. Leaves 3-6 in. long, usually broader than long, orbicular or reniform, abtuse, somewhat emarginate and often apiculate at the apex, rather silky beneath, lobes rounded ; petioles