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Vern.— Naglkud, pandra-kura (Mar) ; Bili kodsaloo ; nagar-kooda ; halmeti ; maddarsa (Kan).

Habitat — Western Ghats, from the Concan southwards, common.

A small glabrous tree. Bark " grey, rough, with much milky juice," says Brand is, whereas Gamble says that the bark is smooth grey. J. D. Hooker says the bark is pale smooth and grooved when dry. Wood light-grey, or white. Branches very stout. Leaves 3-8 by 1-2½in., coriaceous linear- oblong or linear-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, dark -brown and shining above when dry, paler beneath; midrib and nerves beneath stout. Nerves 12-16 pair, arched. Petiole ⅓-½in., base dilated. Peduncle l-2in.; pedicels ¾-lin.; bracts obsolete. Cymes many- fid. Calyx very coriaceous ; lobes hardly ovate, obtuse, crisped. Ovary very short; style filiform, top obconic ; stigma forked. Follicles yellow, smooth, very variable, ½-lin. long, sessile, slightly recurved, shortly banana-shaped (K.R.K.), not keeled or ribbed, beaked or not. Seeds 2 or more, ⅓in. long.

Uses.--The authors of the Pharmacographia Indica, vol. II, p. 413, write that this species is considered to have similar properties to those of T. coronaria, Br., and is known by the same vernacular name. In Puddukota, the flowers are used in inflammation of the cornea.

Sans. : — Tagara ; Naudivriksha (Ainslie). " Firhi-tugar the Hindoo name of the single flowered, and Bura-tuyar of the double flowered." (Roxb).

Vern :— Sagar; Tagar (Mar. and Guz.) ; Grandi tagarapu, Nandi-vardana (Tel.) ; Chandni, Taggai, Taggar (H.); Tagar (B.) ; Asuru (Nepal;; Krun (Lepcha) ; Nagui-kada (Kan.).

Habitat. — Much cultivated in gardens throughout India, from the N. W. Himalaya in Kumaon, Eastward and Southward, Ceylon.