. . tf. 0. LEGUMINOSiE. 40$ 



pubescent, oblong, I'm. long, globose 1-2-seeded, (1-seeded, says 

 J. G. Baker). 



Use : — The seeds are employed as a nutritive tonic. 



352. 7. enneaphylla, Linn., h.f.b.i., ii, 94, 

 Roxb. 584. 



Sans. : — Vasuka. ', .'. 



Vern. : — Cheppoo-neringie (Tarn.) ; Cherragaddaun (Tel.) ; 

 Bhiuguli (Mar.) ; Kenneggilu (Kan.) ; Cheru-pullate (Mai.). 



Habitat : — From the Himalayas throughout the plains of 

 India. 



A thinly, silvery-hoary annual or biennial. Stems densely 

 csespitose, 1-l^ft., trailing, much-branched; leaves nearly sessile, 

 7-11-foliate, J-lJin. long. Leaflets firm, oblanceolate, alternate ; 

 stipules minute, setaceous. Heads 12-20- flowered, dense, short 

 peduncled or .sessile. Calyx T Vim-> hoary ; teeth long, seta- 

 ceous. Corolla slightly exserted. Pod oblong, 2-seeded, irg-in. 

 long, cylindric, thinly hoary. 



Use: — The juice of this plant is used as an antiscorbutic, 

 alterative and . diuretic ; and is considered alterative in old 

 venereal affections (Ainslie). 



353. I. aspalathoides, Vahl., h.f.b.i., ii. 94. 



Syn. : — I. aspalathifolia, Roxb. 582, 583. 



Vern. : — Shevenar-vaymboo (Tarn.); Manueli (Mai.); Nil 

 (Pb.) ; Shiva-malli (Kan.) 

 . Habitat : — Plains of Carnatic. 



A low undershrub, with copiously spreading, rigid, terete, 

 woody branches and argenteo-canescent branchlets. Leaflet 

 1-5, pale green, with a few obscure adpressed hairs, oblanceo- 

 late, T Vi in- long, often complicate. Pedicels erecto-patent, |-j 

 in., almost as long as the leaf, much shorter than the pod. 

 Calyx scarcely £$ in. ; teeth long, linear. Corolla red, |in. 

 Pod straight, glabrous, turgid, |-| in. long. 6-8-seeded. 



Uses :~-The leaves, flowers and tender shoots are said to 

 be cooling and demulcent, and are employed in decoction, in 

 leprosy and cancerous affections. The root is chewed as a 

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