39-DALBERGIA SISSOO Roxb. ex. DC.
Local names: Shiswi, Sheesham, Sissoo.
Family: Fabaceae
Location: Between Science Building and Y.B.Chavhan college of Pharmacy.
Characters: Large handsome evergreen
tree leaflets 3-5, alternate, broadly elliptic, ovate obovate or orbicular, cuspidate. Flowers small, yellowish, subsessile in racemes arranged in short, axillary panicles. Pods strap shaped with cuneate base, 2-3 seeded.
Common in the forests, planted in gardens and around the field throughout the district.
General use: It is a good timber yielding plant used for constructing huts, houses, furniture, farming instruments and kitchen appliances like lodule, rolling pin etc.
Medicinal use: Leaves bitter, stimulant, decoction of leaves useful in gonorrhoea. Roots astringent. Juice of the leaf is applied in ophthae and used as a gargle in sore throat. Wood useful in leprosy, boils, eruptions and to allay vomiting.
Veterinary use: Leaves used for diarrhoea and for spasmolytic.