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1190 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS.

stigma cylindric or clavate. Receptacles finely pubescent while young. Fruit sessile, yellow or reddish ; ⅓in. diam.; basal broadly ovate, obtuse, spreading.

Uses : — The bark of the root, the root itself, and the leaves boiled in oil form good applications for wounds and bruises. (Rheede.)

In rheumatic headache, the leaves and bark pounded are applied as a poultice. In flatulent colic, the following prescription is used in the Concan : — Take of Nândruk leaf juice, Tulsi leaf juice, and ghi equal parts; boil until all the water has evaporated ; do this again 21 times with fresh quantities of the juice of the two plants ; the residuum may then be applied to the belly, and fomentation with hot brick be practised. The juice of the bark has a reputation in liver disease ; dose 1 tola in milk. (Dymock.)

Vern. : — Kabar, gajna, pípul, gajiún, pipal, gagjaira, pakar, khabar (Hind.); Gaiaswát (Beng.) ; Suman-pípar (Kol.) ; Sunamjor (Santal) ; Pakri (Assam) ; Sat-bur (Cachar) ; Pakar (Nepal); Prab (Garo) ; Kabai pipal (Kumaon) ; Pulákh, rúmbal, badha, palák, pilkhan (Pb.) ; Parás, pípal (Raj.) ; Pair, páyar, asht (ashta), (Mar.) ; Kabai pipal, ganjar, suman, pipar (Lohar-dugga) ; Nyung byu (Burm.)

Habitat : —On the dry lower slopes of the mountains of the Punjab ; and the Northern, Western and Central India, Assam.

A large, deciduous tree, often epiphytic, all parts glabrous. " Bark smooth, grey, ½in. thick. Wood very soft, spongy, with alternating bands of loose and firm tissue of equal width. Pores oval, scanty, moderate-sized. Medullary rays fine, uniform, equidistant." (Gamble.) Leaves sub-coriaceous, upper surface minutely tuberculate when dry, shining, long-petiolate, broadly ovate, with acuminate apex ; edges entire, sub-undulate; base broad, but slightly narrowed towards the petiole ; basal nerves 5, rarely 7 (2 being minute) ; lateral primary nerves 3-6 pair, rather irregular, prominent only in the young state ;