1½-4 by ½-¾in., narrowed at both ends, glabrous, 2-3-seeded, long-stalked, oval, compressed (TALBOT).
Uses: — The bark and an oil obtained from the seeds are medicinally used by the Natives (Beddome).
The Santals use the bark along with that of Flacourtia Ramontchi as an external application during intermittent fever. The leaves and the roots are also employed medicinally (Rev. A. Campbell).
403. D. volubilis Roxb. h f.b.i., ii. 235, Roxb. 536.
Vern, : — Alei, Munganver iBomb.) ; Bandee-gurjun (Tel.) ; Bhatia, bankhara (H.) ; Bir-munga, nari-siris (Santal.) ; Nubari (Uriya) ; Rangdi (Mal.); Bhatia (Kumaon).
Habitat. — Sub-Himalayan tract, from Kumaon eastward; Oudh forests, Bihar, Central and Southern India, Phoondaghaut, near Sawantwadi, in the Bombay Presidency. Common in Burma and the Andamans.
A large scrambling or climbing unarmed tree, with green glabrous, circinate branches, i, e., often bent and twisted into spinal hooks. Bark thin, brown, peeling off in flakes, wood light-brown, hard { Gamble). Leaves 4-6in. long ; rachis pubescent. Leaflets 9-13, elliptic or obovate, often minutely mucronate at apex, l-2in. long (Brandis); or 11.-13, thin glabrous, oblong, obtuse, apiculate, terminal largest ; petiolules 1/20in. long. (Talbot). Flowers small, curved, pale-blue, in compact, large, pubescent panicles. Corolla pale-lilac, says Talbot. Stamens 10in., 2 bundles of 5 each. Pod 2-3in. long, ⅔in. broad, 1- rarely 2- seeded, linear-oblong, obtuse, stalked, glabrous, thickened and veined opposite the seeds
Use: — In the Con can, the juice of the leaves is applied to aphthæ, and used as a gargle in sore-throat. The root-juice, with cumin and sugar is given in gonorrhœa (Dymock).
404. D. spinosa, Roxb. h. f.b.i., ii. 238. Roxb. 536.
Habitat : — Tidal forests along the coasts, from Chittagong to Tenasserim ; also on the Ghats and on the coast of the Western Peninsula.
