N. 0. SO LAN ace.*:, 893 



Chichora (C. P.) ; Kala mew A., tiari, ola, kharwine (Vh.) ; 

 Uosagadi manu (Tel.). 



Habitat : — Common throughout India, in the Tropical and 

 Sub-tropical Zone. 



Sub-Himalayan tract and outer hills from the Jumna eastward 

 Chutia-Nagpur. Western Peninsula, Burma hills and Ceylon 

 moist regions. 



A shrub or small tree, unarmed, 20ft. high ; Trimen says 

 6-10 ft. Bark grey, smooth. Wood soft, light-yellow (GambleV 

 The whole plant is covered with a dense yellowish-grey tomen- 

 tum of scurfy stellate-hairs. Leaves large, 5-9in., lanceolate oval- 

 elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, rounded or acute at base, acuminate, 

 subacute, tomentum velvety above, very woolly beneath ; petiole 

 f-lin., stout. Flowers white or pale-blue, Jin. across, in compact, 

 dichotomous corymbs. Peduncles 2-4in., stout erect. Calyx 

 cup-shaped, very woolly, segments short, broadly triangular, 

 acnte. Corolla woolly without, iin. diam. ; lobes deep, oval- 

 oblong, subacute. Berry fin. diam., hairy at first, with small 

 scattered stellate hairs, yellow. Calyx enlarged in fruit ; lobes 

 shorter than berry. Seeds minutely dotted. 



IV. B.— -Wight's figure of this plant (Ic. T. 1398) is not good, says Trimen, 

 Vol III, p. 232 of Fl. Ceylon, Lond 1805. 



Use : — It is used medicinally by the natives of India, but 

 its properties are unimportant (Watt.). 



857. S. ferox, Linn, h.f.b.i. it., 233. 



Syn. : — S. hirsutum, Eoxb. 192. 



Vern. : — Ram begoon (B.). 



Habitat : — Eastern and Southern India, frequent in the 

 tropical zone ; from Assam to Ceylon and to Tenasserim. 



A large herbaceous shrub. Stem stout, very densely covered 

 with long, coarse, stalked, stellate hairs, and armed with numer- 

 ous straight, slender, fat, shining prickles. The prickles on the 

 leaves abundant ; the longest Jin. Leaves 6-12in,, with broad 

 triangular lin.-deep lobes, usually 2 at a node and unequal, 

 stellately fulvous-woolly beneath, prickly, especially on the nerves 



