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has been used in several instances, with much success, in acute 

 dysentery. 



In South India, the dried plant is used as a demulcent. 

 (Bidie.) 



Powder of leaves given in dysentery 5-10 grs., with an 

 equal part of powdered turmeric. Powdered seeds with honey 

 and ginger given in diarrhoea (Vaidya Rugnathji) — J. Indraji. 



The leaves are demulcent, tonic and diuretic, useful in 

 some cases of chronic cystitis, gonorrhoea and dysuria. 

 (Moodeen Sheriff.) 



196. C. trilocularis, Linn., h.f.b.l, i. 397, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 582. 



Sans. : — Kaunti. 



Vern. :— Kadu Chunch (Bomb.) ; The seeds, Raja-jiren 

 (Bomb.) ; Isbund (Sind) ; Tandassir (Kan.) 



Habitat: — Sind, North-Western Provinces, from Umballa 

 to the Punjab, Nilghiri Mountains. 



An annual herb. Leaves 1-4 by 1 in. Elliptic-oblong 

 or oblong-lanceolate, crenate-serrate, with or without basal 

 sharp-pointed lobes ; petiole very short, pilose. Peduncles 

 1-3-flowered, very short, opposite the leaves. Flowers small, 

 yellow. Capsule elongated, 3-angled ; scabrous or aculeate, 

 straight or curved. 3-4-angled, 3-4-valved, valves scabrous, 

 with transverse partitions, beak short, erect. 



It would appear that the three varieties mentioned by 

 Wight and Arnold (Prod. I. 72) are mere individual variations. 

 They are : — (a) leaves ovate-oblong, capsule in pair, 3-angled ; 

 (6) leaves ovate-oblong, capsules solitary, 4- angled ; (c) leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, capsules in pairs, 3-angled. 



Uses : — The seeds are bitter and administered in doses of 

 about 80 grains in fever and obstruction of the abdominal vis- 

 cera (Dymock.) 



The plant, macerated for a few hours in water, yields a 

 mucilage, prescribed as a demulcent ; seeds as a specific in 

 rheumatism (Murray.) 



