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395. Gylista seariosa, Ait. h.f.b.l, ii. 219, 



Vern. : — Ran ghevada (Mar.j. 



Part used : — The root. 



Habitat: — Woods of the Concan, Dekkan, Canaraand Orissa. 



A woody, climbing shrub, with slender, finely downy 

 branches Leases 3-foliate. Leaflets minutely stipellate, 

 sub-coriaceous, ovate, or sub-rhomboid al, acute, 2-4in. long, 

 thinly grey, downy above, densely downy below. Flowers in 

 copious, distinctly peduncled, lax or dense racemes ; bracts 

 long, membranous, ovate, caducous ; pedicels short, densely 

 pubescent. Corolla yellowish red, Jin. long. Calyx finally 

 1-l^in., teeth scariose and persistent, the lowest much the 

 largest and boat-shaped, lin. broad, the two side ones smaller 

 than the two upper. Corolla enclosed in the Calyx, the petals 

 equal in length. Keel much incurved, truncate. Stamens dia- 

 delphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, 1-ovuled ; style 

 long, filiform, stigma capitate. Pod small, oblique, oblong, 

 enclosed in the Calyx. 



Use : — The root is collected by the herbalists and sold as a 

 remedy for dysentery and leucorrhoea. It is also applied exter- 

 nally along with other drugs to reduce tumours. Its most re- 

 markable property is astringency ; a reddish lucid juice issues 

 from it when cut, which, on drying, becomes black and brittle, 

 and may be seen adhering to the short pieces of the dry root which 

 are offered for sale (Pharmacographia Indica, Vol. L, p. 451). 



396. Flemingia strobilifera, R. Br. h.f.b.l, ii. 227. 



Vern. : — Kasrant (Oudh) ; Simbusak (Santals) ; Bolu (Darjee- 

 ling), Bundar, Kanphuti (Bomb). 



Habitat: — Himalayas, from Simla and Kumaon to Assam, 

 Khasia and Chittagong. 



An erect shrub, 5-16ft. high. Branches slender, terete, velvety. 

 Leaves obovate, lanceolate, sub-coriacoous, 3-8in. long, green, 

 glabrescent above, thinly silky, especially on the raised parellel 

 erecto-patent ribs below. Stipules scariose, linear, i-Jin. ; 

 petiole stiffly erecto-patent, i-lin. Recemes 3-6in. long, 



