Habitat : — Central and Eastern Himalayas, Kumaon, East Bengal and South India.
A large, erect evergreen tree. Wood light reddish-brown, soft. Occasional faint, brown concentric belts of soft tissues. Young shoots drooping and beautifully light to deep crimson. Leaves sessile or subsessile ; leaflets 3-6 pair, oblong or oblong- lanceolate, acute or obtuse, 3-9in. long, rigidly sub-coriaceous. Flowers in dense corymbs, 3-4in. diam., orange on expanding, gradually turning bright scarlet. Peduncles and pedicels glabrous, coloured. Pedicels stout, ¼-½in. long, below the oblong-spathtilate, ascending-, amplexicaul bracteoles- Sepals ¼-⅓in., obovate-oblong. Calyx-tube, ½in. long, twice the length of lobes. Perfect stamens 7-8. Filaments thrice as long as the sepals. Pod 6-10 by 2in., valves hard, reticulate. Seeds 4-8, oblong, compressed, l½in. long.
Use : — The bark is much used by Hindu practitioners in uterine affections and especially in menorrhagia A decoction of the bark in milk is generally prescribed (Dutt).
Dr. Waring says that it proved useful in a recurring hæmorrhoidal tumour in a member of H H. the Maharajah of Travancore's family (B. M. J. and I. M. G., 1885, p. 260) Flowers pounded and mixed with water are used in hæmorrhagic dysentery (Watt).
430. Tamarindus indica, Linn., h.f.b.i., ii. 273, Roxb. 530.
Sans. : — Tintidi ; Amlika.
Vern. : — Amli ; imli (H.) ; Tentul (B. ); Amli; Chintz (Bomb.); Poolie (Tam.); Balam Poolie (Mal.); Chinta-chettu (Tel.); Karangi (Mysore).
Habitat : — Cultivated throughout India, as far north as the Jhelam.
A large, evegreen, unarmed tree. Bark ½in. thick, dark grey, with longitudinal fissures and horizontal cracks. Wood hard, close-grained ; sap wood yellowish white, sometimes with
