806 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



segments minute, ovate, acute, slightly ciliate. Corolla f-in. 

 long (J. D. Hooker), Jin. diam. (Trimen) ; lobes twice as long 

 as the tube, narrow, falcate, obtuse, throat villous, scattered, white 

 hair on upper surface. Stamens, with very short broad filaments, 

 Stigmas sessile, pointed. Follicles 5-6in., divaricate, ovate- 

 oblong, cylindrical, blunt, glabrous, hard and woody, black 

 at times, narrowed from a base of fin. diam. to the obtuse point, 

 terete. Seeds few, 8-12, ljin. long, flat ; beak long, about 

 \ the seeds length, slender, coma white, 2in. long. The stems 

 afford a very strong fibre. 



Use : — The root possesses similar properties to Ipecacuanha 

 (S. Arjun). 



767. Ichnocarpus fratescens, Br. H. F.B.I., III. 

 669. 



Sans. :— Sariva. 



Vern. : — Syamlata (B.); Kali dudhi, belkamu (Sabaranpur), 

 bamar (Gorakhpur); Nalatiga (Tel.); Bhori (C. P.). Krishna 

 Sarwa, Kantebhouri (Mar); Gorwi balli (kan). 



Habitat : — Western Himalaya ; Sirmore to Nepal ; Upper 

 Gangetic plain, from Dehli to Bengal, Assam, Sylhet, Chitta- 

 gong, and the Deccan Peninsula. 



An extensively climbing, evergreen shrub ; much-branched. 

 Branchlets long, slender, white like finely fulvous-tomentose. 

 Leaves lj-2|in., elliptic oblong-lanceolate, or ovate-oval, rounded 

 at base, acute, 2-3 by f-ljin,; dark green glabrous and shining 

 above, pale and more or less pubescent beneath, with slender reti- 

 culations between the main lateral nerves. Petiole J- -Jin. Cymes 

 l-3in., axillary and in terminal panicles, rusty pubescent ; branches 

 short, trichotomously divided, or 3-flowered. Pedicels longer 

 or shorter than the Corolla. Flowers greenish-white, more or 

 less scented (Brandis), yellow (Trimen). Calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse, 

 or subacute, eglandular, hairy. Corolla about Jin., diam., pur- 

 plish (J. D. Hooker), twice as long as the Calyx ; Jin. long, says 

 Brandis ; lobes falcate, acuminate, woolly on the upper side. 

 Disk of 5 linear lobes. Follicles spreading, 2-5in. long. Seeds 

 not rostrate, with a tuft of hairs at the upper end; i'm. long, 

 coma as long, scanty, white. Pericarp thinly coriaceous. 



