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Koboleela |
| Synonyms: Bauhinia candida Ait. | |
| Vernacular Name: Sinhala: Koboleela; Eng: Dwarf white bauhinia; Sans: Jugmapatra; Hin: Kanchnar; Tam: Vellaimandarai. | |
| Description: Erect shrub; branchesobscurely downy and angular; leaves alternate, petiolate, simple, deeply cleft from the tip, 7.5-15.0 cm long; racemes axillary, short peduncled, corymbose; flowers whitish, 3.7cm long; pods 10.0 - 12.5 cm long, 1.5-1.8 cm wide, ribbed on each side, firm, glabrous, 8- to 12-seeded. | |
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| Part Used: Root & stem. | |
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| Uses: Root-decoction: boiled with oil and applied to burns; Stem-bark: antidote to poison; Decoction of bark of leaf: in biliousness, bladder stone, leprosy and asthma. | |
