958 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Use : — The root is used medicinally by the Santals in 

 gonorrhoea, syphilis and renal affections generally (Campbell). 



It is also used by them Santals for producing fermentation 

 in the grain from which they manufacture their beer. 



916. Dcedalaeanthus roseus. T. Anders, h.f.b.l, 



iv. 419. 



Vern. : --Dasamuli (Mar.) 



Habitat : — W. and S. Deccan Peninsula, from the Bombay 

 Ghats to Mangalore. 



A perennial, glabrous herb. Stems 2-6ft, Leaves 5 by 2in ., 

 elliptic, acuminate at both ends, glabrous, lineolate. Spikes 

 linear, subinterrupted, often 6in Peduncles 0-2in., axillary 

 and terminal. Bracts all but the lowest imbricated, J-fin., 

 shortly rugose by raised inarching green nerves ; margins 

 entire, glabrous, ciliate or very hairy. Corolla 1-lfin. rose 

 subglabrous. Seeds iin. diam., much compressed. Roots usually 

 ten in number, tuberous, spindle-shaped, as thick as a quill, 

 several inches in length and covered by a dark brown bark. 



Uses : — The root boiled in milk is a popular remedy for 

 leucorrhcea ; dose one drachm. In the Southern Concan, it is 

 given to pregnant cattle to promote the growth of the foetus 

 (Dymock). 



917. Strobilanthes eallosus, Nees. h.f.b.i., iv. 

 451. 



Vern. : — Karvi (Bomb.). 



Babitati—S. Deccan Peninsula; common in the Ghats; 

 Central India. 



A shrub, 6 ft.; branches glabrate, often warted or scabrous- 

 tubercled. Leaves 7 by 3 in., sometimes much larger, crenate, 

 conspicuously lineolate above; nerves 8-16 pair ; petiole 2 in. 

 Spikes 1-4 in., often densely or laxly cymose : bracts J-l in., 

 orbicular or elliptic. Calyx i in., in fruit often exceeding J in., 

 lobed nearly to the base, segments oblong, obtuse, softly hairy. 

 Corolla 1J in., subsymmetric glabrous without, very hairy within, 

 deep-blue (Dalzell) : cylindric base as long as the ventricose 



