894 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



beneath. Peduncles usually close below the leaves, short. 

 Racemes densely stellately woolly and with needle-like hairs, not 

 prickly. Flowers large, white. Calyx shortly funnel-shaped, 

 shaggy, with long stellate hair, slightly enlarged in fruit ; seg- 

 ments ovate-acute iin., not acuminate. Corolla white, large, 

 ljin. diam., very hairy outside; lobes ovate-oblong, acute, 

 -f-lin. long. Ovary hirsute. Berry yellow, globose l-ljin. diam.; 

 densely clothed with needle-like hairs, i-|in. fulvous, spreading. 

 Fruit pedicels J-lin. . Calyx-lobes in fruit unaltered, hardly i 

 the length of the berry ; base of the Calyx in fruit very densely 

 clothed with long, yellow, bristly hair. Seeds -§-in. diam., nearly 

 smooth. 



Use : — The berries are used medicinally by the natives, but 

 are not considered of much value (Watt). 



858. S. indieum, Linn.> h.f.b.i., iv. 234; Roxb. 

 191. 



Sans. : — Vrihati. 



Vern. : — Barhanta (H.) ; Byakura (B.) ; M ulli, papparamulli 

 (Tarn.) ; Kuk-machi (Tel.) ; Cheru-chunta (Mai.) ; Ringani, dorli 

 (Bomb.) ; Kandyari (Panj.). 



Habitat : — Very common throughout tropical India. 



An erect under shrub, l-6ft., much- branched, very prickly ; 

 prickles compressed, stout, often recurved. Leaves ovate-sinuate 

 or lobed, 3-6 by l-4in., subentire or pinnatifid, stellately woolly 

 beneath, nerves prickly. Petiole iin. Peduncles short, often 

 extra-axillary, pedicels i-Jin., stellately woolly. Racemes many- 

 fid. Flowers blue. Calyx lobes in flower -§-in., triangular, acute, 

 very woolly, unarmed or with slender, straight spines, Corolla 

 -f-lin., broadly triangular, tomentose without. Ovary usually 

 glabrous ; style stellately pubescent. Berry yellow, |in. diam., 

 globose, much exceeding the woolly, patent, triangular, oblong 

 Calyx lobes; prickles of the lobes often strengthened in fruit. 

 Seeds |in. diam. and upwards, smooth or very nearly so. 



Parts used : — The root ; leaves. 



Uses -.—" The root constitutes an igredient of Dasamula, 



