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N. O. BOARGINEÆ
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814. C. Macleodii Hook. f. and Th. h.f.b.i., iv. 139.

Vern: — Dhengan, dhaman, dháian, dewan, dahi, dahipalás, dihgan (H.) ; Reuta porponda (Kol.); Bharwar, belaunan (Karwar) ; Jugia (Santal.) ; Dhaiwan, dhaman, daiwas, dhaim, bhoti (Mar.) ; Bot (Gond.) ; Lauri Kassamar (Kurku) ; Gondu (Raj.); Godela (Merwara) ; Gadru (Ajmere).

Habitat : — Central India, the Concan and Bel gaum.

A middle-sized, deciduous tree, attaining 40ft. Bark thick grey, soft, corky. Heartwood light-brown, beautifully mottled with dark veins, even-grained, very hard. Branchlets, underside of leaves, inflorescence and Calyx clothed with dense grey or tawny tomentum of stellate hair. Leaves alternate, sometimes sub-opposite, cordate, firm and hard when full-grown, rough, with raised groups of cystolith-cells. Blade 5-7in. ; petiole 2-3in. long, the basal as well as secondary and transverse tertiary nerves prominent on the underside of mature leaves. Flowers white, middle-sized, nearly sessile, in lateral, compact, shortly pedunculate or nearly sessile cymes. Calyx turbinate, ⅓in. long. Corolla-lobes spathulate, spreading or reflected. Male flowers with rudimentary ovary, but without style or stigma. Stamens, usually 6, exserted, filaments hairy at. the base, anthers of male flowers large. Drupe ½-¾in. long, ovoid acute ; not edible.

Use : — :The Santals use the bark medicinally in jaundice. (Revd. A. Campbell).


815. Ehretia obtusifolia, Hochst. h.f.b.i., iv. 142.

Vern. : — Chamror (Punjab plains); Gin. (Ravi); Chamar (Bias.); Sakkur, dhaman, saggar, gangar, bar! kander (Salt Range); Chambal (Sind Sagar Doab). (Pb.). Maraghune, kharawune, khabarra. tutiri, lor (Pushtu).

Habitat : — Scinde, Punjab ; in the Salt Range. Rajputana, Ajmere, Merwara.

A small shrub Bark grey. Wood greyish or brownish-white, moderately hard, even-grained. Branches grey. Leaves rough, quite entire and hairy, obovate or spathulate, ovate-oblong,