918 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



An erect, nearly glabrous, herb. Stems 2-4ft., corymbose 

 upwards. Leaves 4-6 by 3in., irregular, ovate-oblong, sinnate, 

 base cuneate or cordate on the same branch. Petiole l-4in., 

 corymb 2-8in. diam., compound, lax, viscid, pubescent. Flowers 

 all pedicelled ; pedicels f-ljin. Calyx in flower fin., lobes fin. 

 lanceolate ; in fruit 1| by fin., striate. Corolla 1J by I'm., 

 tubular, funnel-shaped in the majority of wild examples, some- 

 times shorter (C. B. Clarke), in the cultivated examples wider, 

 subcampanulate. Stamens and styles equalling the Corolla, 

 or fin. longer, distinctly exserted in all wild examples. Capsule 

 Jin. diam. Seeds ^in. diam., scorbiculate-reticulate. 



Uses ' — " In the hills the leaves are applied to boils, and are 

 also said to be poisonous, the month swelling from their touch, 

 and the head and throat being affected when they are eaten. 

 A man was poisonously affected by eating the plant gathered 

 in the Lahoul habitat, and the Negi ol Lahoul, when at Leh in 

 1867, suffered from its narcotic effects for two or three days, 

 some of its leaves having been gathered by mistake with his 

 sag. At the same time, they can hardly be very poisonous to 

 all animals, for in Lahoul they are browsed by cattle. In a 

 recent communication to the Agri-Horticultural Society of India, 

 Dr. Christison of Edinburgh states that this has the same pro- 

 perty of dilating the pupils as Belladonna" (Stewart). 



876. Hyoseyarnus niger, Linn, h.f.b.i., iv. 244. 



Vevn. : — Bazrul ; Khorasani ajowan (B. and H.) ; Kurashani 

 Yomam (Tarn.) ; Kurasani-vamam (Tel.). 



Habitat : — Temperate Western Himalaya, from Kashmir to 

 Garwhal. 



An erect, coarse herb, pubescent and more or less hairy. 

 Leaves cauline, sessile, ovate or oblong, sinnate or lobed 

 5 by 2in. Flowers subsessile. Lower pedicels in fruit scarcely 

 fin. Calyx in flower fin., softly hairy, teeth mucronate, short, 

 triangular, somewhat rigid, the fruit 1 by fin., subcontracted in 

 the middle. Corolla purple in the base, lin., lurid green, 



