532 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Flowers pendulous, cylindric, 2in. long, in a large terminal 

 panicle. Calyx tubular, inflated, green, tinged with red and 

 spotted with white, 4- toothed. Corolla tubular, twice as long as 

 the Calyx ; tube cylindric, green, lobes 4, tinged with red,. acute, 

 spreading. Stamens 8, in 2 series, inserted about the middle 

 of the Corolla-tube. Carpels 4. Follicles 4, many-seeded, 

 enclosed within the dry persistent Calyx and Corolla. (Collett). 



Sutlej Valley ; Simla ; throughout India. An introduced 

 plant, spread throughout all tropical regions. Often much 

 cultivated in gardens in Bombay and in the Dekkan. In Ceylon, 

 says Trinien, it is a common plant on bare rocky places through- 

 out the low and lower montane country. Believed to be a 

 native of Tropical Africa. 



Use : — The leaves slightly toasted are used by the natives 

 as an application to wounds, bruises, boils, and bites of veno- 

 mous insects. In the Concan the juice of the leaves is admi- 

 nistered in i to \ tola doses, with double the quantity of ghi ; 

 in dysentery. I have seen decidedly beneficial effects follow 

 their application to contused wounds, swellings, and discolor- 

 ations were prevented, and union of the cut parts took place 

 much more rapidly than it does with the ordinary treatment 

 by water dressing (Dymock). 



Used in the form of poultice and powder for sloughing 

 ulcers, it is a disinfectant (Surg. Barren, in Watt's Dictionary, 

 Vol. I.) 



483. Ka/anchoe spathulata, DC, h.f.b.i.,ii. 414. 



Syn. : — K. Varians, Wall. 



Vern. : — Tatara, rungru, haiza-ka-patta (Pb. and H.) ; Hatho 

 Kane (Nepial) ; Patkuari, bakal patta (Kumaon). 



Habitat : — Tropical Himalaya, from Bhotan to Kashmir. 



An erect, stout, perennial herb. Stems 4ft. high. Leaves 

 glabrous, spathulate-oblong, crenate, upper distant and becom- 

 ing very narrow, sometimes 3-foliate, with the petiole often 3-4 

 by Jin., frequently sessile ; lower commonly 3-4, sometimes 

 10in., long, besides the petiole. Lowest bracts linear, narrow, 



