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| Description.—An annual weed from 1 to 3. feet high; 2 
leaves 3 to.5 foliolate, leaflets obovate; flowers yellow; the 2 
AS 
black currants, The capsules are from 2 to 8} inches lovg 
striated, pubescent, tapering towards the point, which i 
surmounted by the style; the seeds are dark brown or nearl 
black, reniform, and granular, about the size of black mustar 
seed ; the leaves have a pungent flavour, and the seed a feebl 
-taste of mustard. 
~GYNANDROPSIS PENTAPHYLLA, J. 
Fig.—Rheede, Hort. Mal. ix., t, 24: as 
Hab. 
seeds, 
India and all tropical countries. The plant an 
Vernacular.— Hérhir, Hélhdl, Karaila (Hind.), Hurhuri 
(Beng.), Vaminta’ (Tel.), Tildvana, Mabli (Mar.), - Vel 
Taivela (Tam.), Waila (Oing.). | a 
History, Uses, &c.—-The five-leaved Cleome, as it was 
formerly called, has been long known as a domestic remedy 
by the Hindus ; it is called in Sanskrit Surjavarta and Arka- 
pushpika, and is noticed by Ainslie, who says, “ That the small 
numerous, warmish kidney formed black seeds, as well a8 
leaves of this plant, are administered in decoction in couvulsive 
affections and typhus fever, to the quantity of half a teacup 
full twice daily.”? The natives regard it as having much the 
"same properties as Cleome viscosa. In the French colonies: 
and in the Nilgiris it is used as a sudorific. In Pudukota the 
leaves are applied to boils to prevent the formation of pus-— 
_ Wight (Jil. I, p. 34) says that the bruised leaves are rube- 
 facient and vesicant. 
_ Description.—A common plant on ‘cultivated ground; 
leaves 5-foliolate, with obovate leaflets ; flowers white 
