586 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



532. L. acutangula, Roxb. h.f.b.i., ii. 615 ; 

 Roxb. 698. 



Sa7is. : — Jhingaka= 



Vern. : — Turai (H.) ; Jhinge (B.) ; Peekunkai (Tara.) ; Pee- 

 chenggah (Mai.); Beerkai (Tel.) ; Janlii (Uriya) ; Paror jhinga 

 (Santal.); Ram-toroi (Nepal); Turi (Sind.) ; Dorka (C. P.); 

 Shirola (Mar.) ; Turin, Guisoda (Guz.). 



Habitat : — North- West India; Sikkim ; Assam and Plains 

 of East Bengal. 



Extensively climbing, hairy annuals ; tendrils 2-3-fid. Leaves 

 4in. diam., reniform-orbicular, 5-angied or somewhat 5-lobed, 

 dentate, usually scabrous, punctate on both surfaces, pubescent 

 in nerves beneath ; petiole 2in. Male peduncles 6in., flowers 

 often approximate near the summit; pedicels short, each carrying 

 a small, entire, viscid bract, sometimes obsolete. Petals 5, 

 obovate, united ; stamens 3. Female flowers solitary ; peduncle 

 l-3in. Fruit 5-10 inches, often 2-ft. long, 10-angled, not 

 covered with spines or papilse. Seeds numerous, close-packed, 

 scarcely Jin. The flowers open in the afternoon. 



Use : — The seeds possess purgative and emetic properties 

 and also yield an oil. 



The pounded leaves are applied locally to splenitis, haemor- 

 rhoids and leprosy (Emerson). The juice of the fresh leaves is 

 dropped into the eyes of children in granular conjunctivitis, 

 also to prevent the lids adhering at night from excessive 

 meibomian secretion (P. Kinsley in Watt's Dictionary). 



533. L. acutangula, Var : — Amara, h.f.bj., ii. 

 615; Roxb 699. 



Sans. : — Koshataki. 



Vern. : — Rarvi-turai (H.) ; Ghoshalata, Kerula, Tetodhoon- 

 dhool (B.); Ran-turai; Kadu-siroln, Kadu-dokra (Bomb.); Sendu- 

 beer-kai (Tel./. 



Habitat :— Nearly all India, especially the Western side. 



Exceedingly near L. acutangula, but distinguished by the leaves a little 

 smaller and sometimes whitish. 1 he typical L. amara has the leaves softly 

 pubescent at least while young, for they become in age scabrous (0. B. 

 Clarke). 



