Use : — A decoction of the leaves is used to allay headache in malarious fevers (Dymock). The gum is used medicinally in South India (I. L. STEWART).
433. B. retusa, Ham. h.f.b.l, ii. 279, Roxb. 345.
Vern. : — Kandla, kanalla, kuyral, gwayral ; Semla(H..; Kurâl (Pb.); Laba(KoL); Thaur (Gond.) ; Nirpa (Tel).
Habitat: — N. W. Himalaya, from the Beas eastward, ascending to 4,500ft ; Central India.
A middle-sized, deciduous, erect tree. Bark ½in. thick, dark brown, with vertical cracks, often much scored by the cut of gum-collectors. Wood red, with irregular dark-red or black patches and streaks near the centre, hard, having pale bands or soft tissue, which alternate with dark bands of firmer texture. Branchlets long, slender, pendulous. Leaves round-cordate, cleft only at the very tip ; coriaceous, broader than long, 3-8in. across, 9-11-nerved, glabrous beneath. Flowers numerous, in pedunculate corymbose racemes, forming long terminal panicles, sometimes 1ft. long, clothed with fine, grey, silky, pubescence, the lower corymbs springing from the axils of reduced leaves. Pedicels long, slender, lower ones ascending, ½-¾ in. long. Bracts and bracteoles minute, caducous. Calyx-limb splitting into 2 or 3 segments 1/6in. long. Bud ovoid. Petals oblong, clawed, hairy outside, blade orbicular, pale-yellow, marked with dark purple veins. Fertile stamens 3 ; style produced, stigma large. Pod late— dehiscing, 4-6 by lin., generally broader at top, glabrous. Seeds 6-8.
Use : — The gum is used as an external application to sores. It is considered as an emmenagogue and diuretic by some native practitioners (DR.EMERSON).
{{c|434. B. Vahlii, W. and A. Prodr. 297 ;n h.f.b.l, ii. ]]279.
Syn. : — B. racemosa, Vahl., Roxb. 346.
Vern. : — Taur (Pb.) ; Malghan, maljan, mahi, marraim, jallaur (H.) ; Chehur (B.) ; Sihâr, maul mahalan (C. P.) ; Borla {Nepal) ; Shioli (Uriya); Adda (Tam.) ; Chamboli, Chambuli. (Dec);
