Description
A deciduous spinescent shrub or small tree upto 10 m high, root yellowish, strong, root-bark dark brown; stem bark pale brown, roug with shallow cracks. PHARMACOGNOSY Leaf : Leaves 8 to 13 cm in length and 3 to 5 cm in width, simple, petiolate, petiole 6 to 13 mm long, lanceolate, narrowly oblong or ovate, bas erounded or acute, glabrous above, pubescent on the nerves, venation reticulate. Petiole : Epidermis single layered covered by cuticle; non glandular, mostly unicelular, rarely bicellular, uniseriate trichomes, measuring upto 2800 microns in length and upto 16 microns in width; 7 to 10 layered collenchyma present just beneath the epidermis, followed by parenchymatous tissue
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