834 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



786. G. tuberosa, Boxb. h.f.b.l, iv. 70. 



Syn. : — C. acuminata, Roxb. 251. 



Vern. : — Kappe-kadu (Bomb.) ; Patal-tumbdi (Mar.) ; Com- 

 mumadu (Tel.). 



Habitat : — Deccan Peninsula, from the Concan southwards. 



Twining herbs, quite glabrous ; root tuberous. Stem leafy- 

 slender. Leaves glabrous, l-4in.; fleshy, from orbiculcular • api- 

 culate to lanceolate acuminate ; base acute or rounded. Petiole 

 i-fin. Peduncles glabrous 1-3 together, j-3in.; pedicels fasci- 

 cled or subpaniculate ; bracts minute. Flowers lin. long and 

 upwards, rarely less. Sepals subulate, |-in., recurved. Corolla 

 l-2in., straight, base somewhat inflate, mouth slightly dilated. 

 Lobes i shorter than the tube, suddenly contracted from a trian- 

 gular base into linear cohering appendages that are at first 

 connate throughout their length, and villous within. Coronal- 

 lobes ciliate, very short. Follicles 4-5in. long, slender. Seeds 

 £in. long, linear. 



Use : — The starchy, somewhat bitter tubers, are used as a 

 nutritive tonic in the bowel complaints of children (Dymock). 



787. Boueerosia aucheriana, Dene, h.f.b.l, iv. 78. 



Vern. : — Chaningli, chungi, pawanne, pamanke (Pb.). 



Habitat :-~Dry hills in the Western Punjab ; the Salt Range, 

 &c. 



The genus Boueerosia is described by J. D. Hooker as 

 " fleshy leafless herbs, with thick 4-angled stem, angles toothed." 



B. Aucheriana is a plant 2-6in. high ; branches f-Jin. diam. 

 Flowers capitate. Sepals ovate-lanceolate. Corolla Jin. diam., 

 dark-purple, more or less deeply divided into lobes, narrow, 

 lanceolate, glabrous, pustular above. Follicles 3-4in., tips capi- 

 tate. 



Uses : — The juicy stems are considered stomachic, carmina- 

 tive, and tonic. Bellew states that they are also used as 

 vermifuge, and Masson mentions that, dried and powdered, they 

 are taken as stimulants (Stewart). It is also used as a febrifuge. 



