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they yield to hot water. Their decoction is therefore useful 

 as a fomentation to painful parts. The seeds have a distinct 

 control over gonorrhoea, gleet, and chronic cystitis (Moodeen 

 Sheriff), 



The juice of leaves about one tola, and ghee one tola, are 

 given in catarrhal bilious diarrhoea. K.R.K. 



156. A graveolens, W. & A., h.f.b.l, i 327. 



Verti. : — Barkanghi, bara banghi (Cawnpore). Vaddattutti. 

 (Tarn.) 



Habitat : — United Provinces, Sindh, Nilgherries, Baluchis- 

 tan, Central Provinces, Ceylon waste ground. 



An herbaceous annual, branches covered with clammy 

 pubescence, mixed with spreading hairs. Leaves sometimes 

 lobed, orbicular-cordate, abruptly acuminate, velvety on both 

 sides. Petiole almost as long as the blade ; stipules linear ; 

 reflexed (falcate). Peduncles as long as the petioles. Trimen 

 says that the flowers in Ceylon are yellowish, becoming pink 

 when withering. Flowers large, orange coloured, with a darker 

 centre, ultimately reflexed. Sepals ovate, acuminate ; petals 

 obcordate. Carpels 20 or more, truncate or rounded, hairy ; 

 rather longer than the Calyx, notawned. 



Use : — In his Flora of the Upper Gangetic plain (p. 83), 

 Duthie writes that the roots, leaves and seeds are medicinal. 

 The fresh plant has often a strong and unpleasant smell. Tri- 

 men says about the same plant growing in Ceylon:— "I do 

 not notice any scent in the Ceylon plant." The uses are the 

 same as those of A. indicum. 



157. A. Avieennce, Gcertn., h.f.b.l, i 327. 



Hyn. : - Sida abutilon, Linn. 

 (Sanskrit) Jaya, Jayanti — J. Indraji. 

 Eng, : — The Indian Mallow or American Jute. 

 Vern. : — (Gujratand Porebunder) Nahani Khapat, Bhonya 

 Kaski, Bhonya-Khapat. 



Habitat : — North-west India, Sindh, Kashmir and Bengal. 



