864 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



The leaves boiled in a little castor oil, said to relieve pain 

 of scorpion bite or bee-stings, also the bite of mad-dogs. For 

 cleansing and healing ulcers also of service (Murray, 171). 



819. H. undulatum, Vahl. h.f.b.l, iv. 150. 



Vern, : — Pipat-buti ; Jate misak (Pb.). 



Habitat ;: — Frequent in the Punjab, Scinde and Upper 

 Gangetic Plain. 



Sub-erect, 6-24in., branched, harsh, scabrous, Leaves ^-l^in., 

 often rugose, obscurely petioled, lanceolate, bristly, margins 

 crenulate. Spikes rigid, branches short. Flowers sessile, 

 ebracteate. Sepals T V n , oblong, scabrous, rigid, persistent, after 

 the nutlets have fallen. Corolla-tube gin., tubular, scabrous 

 without ; lobes very small, ovate. Nutlets 4, xV n > verrucose, 

 hispid or bristly. 



Use:— Given after snake-bite, while tobacco-oil is locally 

 applied to the bite itself (Stewart). 



820. II. strigosum; Willd, h.f.b.i., iv. 151. 



Habitat :— Throughout India. 



Herbs usually procunbent, intricately branched. Leaves -f 

 by ioin., small, linear- lanceolate. Spikes mostly elongate. Upper 

 flowers, sessile, not conspicuously bracteate ; lower flowers of 

 the spike often pedicelled, with larger bracts. Sepals j 2 in. ovate- 

 lanceolate. Corolla tubular, throat not hairy. Stamens 5, on the 

 Corolla-tube included, filaments very short. Stigma ovate, 

 linear. Fruit iViV n J long and broad ; ovoid, not or obscurely 

 4-lobed, with minute grey hairs, depressed conical at apex. 



821. H. brevi folium, Wall, h.f.b.i., iv. 151. 

 (Reduced to a Var. of H. strigosum in Hooker s Fl 

 Br. 2nd.) 



Vern. :— Safed-bhangra, Chiti phiil (H.); Kharai, Tindu, 

 Gorakh pamo (Pb.). 



Habit<(t : — Throughout India, even more abundant than H. 

 stvigorum type. 



Differs from H. strigosum by its shorter leaves. Leaves i by 

 i^in., narrowly lanceolate. 



