S62 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



much cuneate at base ; blade l-2in., narrowed into a petiole, 

 I'm. long. Flowers white or bine, in lax hairy cymes. Corolla- 

 fnbe twice the length of Calyx ; lobes as long as tube. 



Use : — A decoction of the fresh root is used in venereal 

 diseases (Dymock). 



816. E. buxifolia, Roxb. h.f.b.i , iv. 144 ; Roxb. 

 201. 



Vern. :— Cooruvingie, voyr (Tam.) ; Bapana-buri (Tel.); 

 Paleke-jurr (Dec.) ; Pale HE.) ; Pala (M.). 



Habitat: — Deccan Peninsula, in dry jungles. 



A shrub, with stiff branches. Leaves J-lin., fasciculate on 

 nrrested branchlets, oblanceolate, apex, with a few obtuse teeth, 

 pale beneath, upper side rough, with short stiff hairs standing 

 generally on white disks (cystolith-cells), entire or often 3-lobed 

 at apex, obtuse, attenuated base, subsessile. Peduncles 0-| in, 

 hairy, axillary, l-(or fewVflowered. Flowers, says Brand is, 

 " solitary or a few together on slender hair peduncles." Calyx 

 hairy ; lobes iin., lanceolate, linear, spathulate, longer than 

 tube. Corolla ^-gin. across, white, campanulate ; lobes short, 

 ovate. Filaments very short. Style 2- fid to near the base, or 

 two distinct styles. Drupe globose, \-\ui. diam., yellow or 

 scarlet when ripe. Stone one, 4-celled (Brandis). 



Use : — The root is employed in Southern India by the 

 Hindoo doctors as an alterative, and by the Mahomedan as an 

 antidote to vegetable poison (Ainslie). 



Dr. A. E. Ross reports having employed it in the form of 

 decoction, in proportion of two ounces of the root to a pint of 

 water, and that this in doses of two ounces appeared to be 

 decidedly beneficial in secondary and constitutional syphilitic 

 affections (Ph. Ind.). 



817. Coldenia procumbeiis, Linn., h.f.b.i., iv. 

 144 ; Roxb. 150. 



San$. : — Tripakshi. 



Vern.: — Tirpungkhi, triphunkhi, tripungki (H.) ; Bursha 

 (Sind.) ; Tripakshi (Bomb.) ; Seru-padi, siru-padi (Tarn.) ; Hamsa- 

 padu, hama-padi (Tel). 



