Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s5.199

c5.s5.199

Charaka¹ is more clear, though not at all more scientific than Hārīta on this point. In course of the description of properties, etc., of Vatsaka (Holarrhena antidysenterica) Charaka says: “Those of the Vatsaka which bears white flowers and fruits, and tender (स्निग्धः) leaves, belong to the category of males ; and those which bear red and yellow flowers and fruits, and are not bulk and whose colour is different, belong to the category of females.