q BORAGINEA 593 
TRICHODESMA ZEYLANICUM, Br. 
Fig.—Bot. Mag. t. 4820 ; Jacq. Ic. Pl. Rar. ti, a 314, 
Hab.—Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon. The herb. 
Vernacular.—JI hingi, Jhingino (Hind., Mar.), Kouri-buti, 
Ratmandu (Bunj.)s Gaozabaén (Sind.). 
History, Uses, &c.—These plants bear the Sanskrit 
1€8 of Jhingi, Jhingini, Sirishika, Durbala and Ambu-siri- 
‘a; they are andor to be demulcent, alterative and alexi- 
rmic; useful for the removal of phlegmatic humors, skin 
The Hindi and Mar: rathi names, which are derived 
on or prickly obj ects; im Hindi J hinga i isa name for shrimps 
itles, and also a stinging kind ef fish. ‘Phe authors of the 
khzan-el-Adwiya and Tuhfat-el-Muminin notice a small kind 
aozabin with a round blue flower, which is probably a 
odesma. J’. indicum is mentioned “in Spry’s Modern 
as being in repute as an antidote to snake poison. Dr. 
‘er (Bombay Med. and Phys. Soc. Frans., 1840, p. 42,) 
ices the use of Indian Borage in the Deccan on account of its 
nollient properties. In the Punjab and Sind it is used as an 
terative and diuretic like the Persian Gaozab4n; in the latter 
wince 7’. Africanum isalso used under the name of Pdbarpani. 
Description.—Bristly, with hairs springing from 
ercles and also more or less villous, leaves mostly sessile-lan 
te or cordate-lanceolate, 1-4 inches long, tuberculate on the 
r surface ; lower pedicels often distinctly axillary, 1-flower- 
clayx lobes (at least in fruit) cordate or hastate at the 
—4 inch, more or less grey or white-villous ; corolla tube 
lobes } inch, ovate, suddenly acuminate ; staminal cones 
r woolly on the back; nutlets 4 inch, sometimes very 
the inner surface, Sbasairely margined. In the variety 
2, the leaves are amplexicaul and strigose econ 
nerves, but glabrous between them. T. Zeylanic 
- and more softly ‘villous racemes tha 
) Ne aeee it hardly differs from it a 
