201. Hugonia Mystax, Linn., h.f.b.i, i. 413.
Vern. : — Agúre (Tam.) ; gatrinta ; tivoa potike ; vendapa ; Káki bira (Tel.) ; Modera Canni (Mal.)
Trimen gives the following names : —
Sinhalese : — Maha-getiya, Bugetuya ;
Tamil : — Motirakanni.
Habitat : — Western Peninsula, from the Concan to Travancor. Ceylon, low country.
In the Konkan, near the sea-coast, at Vingorla ; Northern Circars and the Karnatic ; Ceylon (Trimen, Fl. Ceylon, 1. 189.)
A climbing shrub, scrambling ; branches spreading, set with numerous short, stiff, yellow-tomentose branchlets. " Bark yellowish-white, corky. Wood greyish-white, hard, close- grained. Pores small, very numerous and evenly distributed. Medullary rays very faintly marked, numerous, regular." (Gamble). Branches leafless below, bearing in the axils of the lowest leaves a pair of woody, reflexed, circinate, tomentose pines (modified peduncles occasionally bearing flowers), above them tufts of leaves and axillary flowers. (Brandis). Leaves alternate, stipules subulate. Flowers yellow, 1 in. across. Sepals 5, unequal, imbricate. Petals 5, contorted. Stamens 10; filaments connate at base. Ovary 5-celled, styles 5, distinct- Drupe red or yellow, ½ in. long, endocarp bony, grooved ; Seeds 2-3 (Brandis). Flowering time, May-October.
Uses : — The bruised roots are employed externally in reducing inflammatory swellings, and as an antidote to snake- bites. In the form of a powder, it is administered internally as an anthelmintic and febrifuge. The bark of the root is also employed as an antidote to poisons (Watt).
202. Erythroxylon monogynum, Boxb. h.f.b.i., i. 414. Roxb. 322.
Syn.: — E. indicum, Bedd Fl. Sylv. p. 81. Sethia Indica D.C.
Vern ; Nât-kâ-devdâr (Dec.) ; Devdarum, Chemmanally (Tam.) ; Adivi geranta, pagadapu-katta (Tel.)
