174 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



10-awned, awns longer than the Calyx, covered with stiff 

 reflexed hairs. Flowers with the other species in the rainy and 



cool season. 



Generally distributed throughout Tropical and Sub-Tro- 

 pical India. A Tropical weed. 



Parts used : — The root, seeds and leaves. 



Use : — A decoction of the root with ginger is given by 

 Hindu physicians, in intermittent fever. It is also administered 

 in fever accompanied by shivering fits and strong heat of body. 

 The powder of the root-bark is given with milk and sugar for 

 the relief of frequent micturition and leucorrhcea. In diseases 

 of the nervous system the root is used alone, or in combination 

 with other medicines. (Dutt.) 



The seeds are reckoned aphrodisiac, and are administered 

 in gonorhcea. They are also given for colic and tenesmus 

 (Stewart). In the Concan, the leaves, with other cooling leaves 

 are applied in ophthalmia ; the root-juice is used to promote the 

 healing of wounds, and the juice of the whole plant pounded 

 with a little water is given in \ seer doses for spermatorrhoea 

 (Dymock.) 



155. Abutilon Indicum G. Don. h.f.b.i., 



i. 326. 



Syn. : — A. asiaticum, W. &. A. Sida Indica, Linn. Roxb. 

 518. 



Sanskrit — Atibala, Kankatika. 



Vern. : — Kanghi, kungain, Tootree, Potaree (H.) ; simbul, 

 Peelee-bootee (Pb. and Sind) ; Ati khirati-pala ;Pb.) ; Potari, 

 (B.) ; Mini baha (Santatl) ; Petari, madmi, Kanghai chakra- 

 bhenda. (Bomb); Petari, Tupkadi, Tubocuty (Goa). Tatti, 

 (Tarn;; Uram, Pettaka (Mai); Anona (Sinhalesi) ; Peruntufcti, 

 Vaddatuth (Tam.). The seeds, Balbij (Bomb). 



Habitat : — Throughout tropical India. Dry Country 

 Ceylon. 



A semi-shrubby annual or perennial ; branches very finely 

 downy ; Leaves -f-1 in., broadly ovate, very cordate at base, 



