408 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Use :— Its stem and leaves appear to be officinal under the 

 above name (Stewart). Pods used as a vegetable among the 

 Hindus. 



350. Indigofera linifolia, Retz., h.f.b.l, ii. 

 92, Roxb. 582. 



Vern. :— Torki (H.) ; Bhangra (B.) ; Taudikhode-baha 

 (Santal) ; Burburra, pandharipale, bhangra, torki (Bomb.). 



Habitat : — From the Himalayas throughout India. 



An annual ; the whole plant persistently silvery, hoary. 

 Stems slender, copiously branched, both at base and upward, 

 J-lft. Leaves simple, sub-sessile, i-lin. long, typically linear, 

 acute, but varying to obovate, obtuse, with a mucro. Stipules 

 minute, setaceous. Flowers 6-12 ; in copious, dense, sub-sessile 

 Racemes. Calyx tV in., silvery ; teeth long, linear-setaceous. 

 Corolla bright red, 2-3-times the Calyx. Pod hard, mucronate 

 silvery under, j% in. thick. 



Use :— It is given medicinally in febrile eruptions (Honnig- 

 berger). 



The Santals use the plant in amenorrhoea along with Eu- 

 phorbia thymifolia (Revd. A. Campbell). 



351. I. glandulosa, Willd. h.f.b.l, ii., 94, 

 Roxb. 583. 



Vern. : — Vekhariyo (Guj.) ; Barbed (Sholapur) ; Gavacha 

 matmaudi (Bomb.) ; Vekhariyo, baragadam, barapatalu, boomi- 

 dapu, barapatam (Tel.). 



Habitat : — Plains of the Western Peninsula and Bundel- 

 khand. 



An annual, with elongated, slender branches, clothed when 

 young with spreading hairs not at all argenteo-canescent. 

 Leaves distinctly petioled, always 3-foliate. Stipules setaceous, 

 minute ; petiole nearly as long as the leaflets. Leaflets oblan- 

 ceolate, membranous, J-l in. long, green above ; hairs adpressed, 

 obscure, pale glaucous, with copious distinct black dots below. 

 Heads i-|in. long, sessile. Corolla 3-4 times the Calyx. Caylx 

 i^in., pubescent ; teeth long, setaceous. Pod brown, finely 



