N. 0. BOARGiNE.U. 865 



Uses : — Both H. strigosum and H. brevifolium are laxative 

 and diuretic, their juice is used as an application to sore-eyes, 

 gurn-boils and sores generally, to promote suppuration, and as 

 a cure for the sting of nettles and insects 



822. H. indicum, Linn., h.f.b.l, iv. 152 ; 

 Roxb. 152. 



Sans. : — Hatisunada, srihastini, bhurundi. 



Vern : -Hatta-jurie, hatta-siira, siriari (H.) ; Hatisura (Uriya 

 and B.); Cbappu-tattu (C. P.); Bhurundi (Alar.); Hathi-Sun- 

 dhana (Guz) Tet-Kodduki (Tarn). Telu-munnie, Nagadanti (Tel); 

 Tel-Kotukka, Teliyanni (Mai). 



Habitat : — Throughout India ; very common in the moister 

 parts. 



A coarse, diffuse, hairy annual, f-2 ft. high. Stem stout and 

 somewhat succulent but woody at the base ; branches ascending, 

 clothed with stiff spreading hairs. Leaves alternate or sub- 

 opposite, petioled, 1-4 in. long, ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse or 

 subacute, sparsely hairy above, minutely pilose beneath, margins 

 undulate or subserrate, base rounded or cordate or decurrent 

 into the petiole, nerves prominent beneath. Spikes 2-6 in. long, 

 usually extra- axillary, simple or forked, ebracteate hispid. 

 Flowers pale-violet, sessile, 2-ranked. Calyx 5-partite, j 1 ^ in. 

 long, sparsely bristly outside ; segments unequal, narrowly 

 lanceolate, acute. Corolla funnel-shaped, \ in. long, hairy out- 

 side, tube slender, cylindric, slightly dilated at the base ; lobes 

 very small, rounded, reflexed, Stigma shorter than the style, 

 with an annular frill at the base ; apex short, obtuse. Fruit § 

 in. long, deeply 2-lobed, each lobe bluntly 4-ribbed, containing 

 2 angular beaked 1-Seed seeded pyrenes, each with an empty 

 cavity on the inner side. White, subquadrate. (DuthieJ. 



Uses :— The leaves of this widely-distributed plant are held 

 in esteem in various parts of the world as an external applica- 

 tion to ulcers, wounds and local inflammations. Their action is 

 probably only that of an emollient. Diuretic properties are 



also assigned to the plant (Ph. Ind.). 

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