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994 Dr. Mootooswamy lias seen the natives using the leaves soaked in goat's urine or in onion juice for dropsy ; sometimes chebulic myrobalans are added if the bowels are costive.

A small or medium-sized deciduous tree ; branchlets and young leaves pubescent or velvety. Leaves membranous, drying black, 3-6'in. long broadly ovate, sharply acuminate, usually quite entire, base cuneate ; upper surface glabrous when mature, the lower hairy especially on the midrib, petioles ½-¾in. long. Corymbs broad, usually terminating short leafy branchlets, rusty pubescent. Calyx 5-toothed, clothed with spreading hairs. Corolla greenish-white, 1/6in. long, pubscent within. Drupe globose, verrucose.

Use :— The milk of the bark is applied to boils, and the juice is given to cattle in colic (Atkinson). The juice is applied medicinally in the Punjab (Stewart).

Habitat : —Assam and Chittagong. A cultivated plant.

A short-stemmed entirely glabrous shrub ; branching, 6-8ft. Leaves 6J by 3in., obovate or elliptic-acuminate, sharply serrate, base entire, cuneate suddenly narrowed, sometimes very shortly cordate, mature glabrate, nerves 5 pair ; petiole ¼in., slender obscurely puberulous. Corymbs compact, nearly glabrous, 2½in. diam., short-peduncled, globose many-fid ; bracts 1/16in., linear. Calyx 1/16in., cup-shaped, obscurely puberulous ; minutely 5-toothed somewhat enlarged, more distinctly toothed in fruit. Corolla ⅛in., yellowish white, 2-tipped, throat hairy. Drupe 1/6in, globose or somewhat obovoid, usually 3-4 seeded.

Use : — The natives of Chittagong employ the leaves medicinally (Roxb.).

Habitat: — Subtropical Himalaya, from Kumaon to Bhotan. S. Deccan Peninsula.

Sans. : — Bhumijambu, bhumi-jamberka.