shining resinous glands on the corolla ; and calyx also. Flower yellowish or greenish white.
Use: — In Chutia Nagpur, the bark is used for making an external application for pains in the chest (Revd. A. Campbell).
961. V. glabrata, Br. h.f.b.i., iv. 588.
Vern.: — Goda, horina, ashwal (Beng.) ; Luki neva-ledi (Tel.); Sengenit karril (Kan.) ; Tokra (Magh.) ; Sherasa (Mar.); Htouksha (Burm.) ; Sheras ; Longarbisthiras (Bom.).
Habitat : — From S. Assam and Cachar to Deccan Peninsula.
A large deciduous tree ; wood grey, handsome, with a satiny lustre, moderately hard, close-grained, durable. Youngest shoots slightly fulvous-tomentose or woolly. Leaves almost glabrous, mostly 5-3 foliate. Leaflets 5 by 2½in., ovate or oblong, subentire, acute or cuneate at both ends, entire, rarely toothed, mature with scattered appressed minute hairs beneath, younger very softly hairy or subtomentose. Petiolules ¼-¾in., upperside without resinous glands. Petiole l-4in., not winged. Peduncles long or often short. Cymes dichotomous. Flowers somewhat numerous, mostly shortly pedicelled ; bracts inconspicuous. Calyx 1/10in., minutely toothed, usually glabrous in the lower, hairy in the upper part. Corolla ⅓-½in. long, white and purple, tomentose, " ochroleucous," says C. B. Clarke, which means yellowish white or buff ; further Mr. Clarke adds thus : — " Lowest segments much the largest, hairy blue-purple." Filaments minutely hairy. Pistil glabrous. Drupe ⅓-½in. long, succulent, obovoid.
Use : — The bark and root are used as astringents.
962. Clerodendron inerme, Gœrtn., h.f.b.i., iv. 589 ; Roxb. 477.
Sans. : — Kshudrâgnimantha, kundali.
Vern. : — Sang-kuppí, síng-kúpi, lán-jai (H.); Bun-jumat, bun-join, bonjoi, bán-jai, ban-juen, batraj (B.) ; Vanajâi (Bom.) and Mar.) ; Isandhári, sangkupi (Duk.) ; Shengan-kuppi, pina-shengam-kuppi, shangam-kupi, pinari (Tam.) ; Pishinika, uti
