44 THE MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE PHILIPPINES 



root it used for the same effect, as a lotion or injection. I 

 have often had occasion to employ this plant and would never 

 use the Philippine mallow in place of it. 



BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION. A plant 3-4 high, all its parts 

 covered with hairs, simple and tomentose. Leaves heart- 

 shaped, angular, obtuse, unequally serrate, smooth, soft, the 

 lower surface hoary and bearing 9 well-marked nerves. Pet- 

 ioles longer than the leaves, with 2 stipules at the base. 

 Flowers yellow, axillary, solitary. Peduncles long, with a 

 node near the end. Calyx, 5 sepals, as in all the Malvaceae. 

 Corolla, 5 petals with a small notch at the end. Stamens very 

 numerous as well as the styles. Both arise from the summit of 

 a very short column and twist in all directions forming a tassel 

 or tuft. Fruit much higher than the calyx, of 10-20 cells or 

 carpels which are broad, compressed, hairy, the walls united 

 toward the center, each containing 23 seeds. 



HABITAT. Common in Luzon, Panay, Mindanao and other 

 islands. Blooms in September. 



Urena sinuata, L. ( U. morifolia and muricata, DC.; U. multi- 

 fida, Blanco.) 



NOM. YULG. Kulutan, Kulutkulutan, Molopolo, Tag., Vis., 

 Pam. 



USES. The infusion of the root is used internally as an 

 emollient and refrigerant ; externally in skin diseases accom- 

 panied by smarting and inflammation. The boiled and pounded 

 leaves are used as a poultice in inflammation of the intestines 

 and bladder. 



BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION. A spreading plant 4-6 high, 

 with straight stem, leaves cleft at the base, serrate and hairy; 

 the larger ones have 5-6 lobules which subdivide into smaller 

 ones and bear a small gland in the inferior surface of the mid- 

 rib. Petioles short. Flowers terminal and racemose. Calyx 

 double, composed of 5 narrow sepals externally, and 5 colored 



