43-ERYTHRINA VARIEGATA L.
Local name: Pangara
Family: Fabaceae
Location: Behind Rauza.
Characters: Moderate sized trees
with yellowish or greenish grey bark. Branches prickly or smooth. Leaves trifoliate, leaflets broadly ovate, entire. Flowers scarlet red in a dense racemes. Pods torru lose, beaked, seeds 7–8 brownish.
Commonly grown in gardens as an ornamental plant. Planted along road sides around fields also nationalised.
General use: Wood is used as fuel. Young leaves are edible. It is also used as a cattle fodder.
Medicinal use: Decoction of stem bark is used in fever. The paste of leaves is used externally to relieve pains of joints, paralysis and pimples. Bark used in snake bite.
Veterinary use: Hot bark decoction is applied externally on swollen neck of bullock.