tf. O. ACANTHACE.E. 959 



portion. Filaments hairy downwards. Pistil glabrous. Capsule 

 f by J in. Seeds more than £ in. long, thin, obovate acute, 

 densely shaggy with white adpressed inelastic hairs, except on 

 the large oblong areoles. (C. B. Clarke;. 



The flower spikes resemble hops in shape and size, and are 

 covered with a visid resinous exudation called Mel having a 

 musky and resinous odour (Dymock). 



Uses : — The plant has a strong aromatic odor and is much 

 used in domestic medicine by the country -people of the regions 

 where it occurs The bark, with an equal proportion of that of 

 Calophyllum inophyllum, is applied as a fomentation in tenes- 

 mus. The juice of the bark, with an equal quantity of that of 

 Eclipta alba, boiled down to one-half and mixed with old 

 Sesamum oil, a few pepper corns and ginger, is heated and 

 used as an external application in parotitis, and equal quanti- 

 ties of the juice of the flowers and of those of Randia dume- 

 torum are smeared over bruises (Dymock). 



Another species, named, Strobilanthes tiliatus, Nees. h.f.b.i., 

 iv. 439. is also used for the same purposes. 



918. S. aurieulatus, Nees. h.f.b.i., iv. 453. 



Vern. :— Gada-kalha ; Harnapakor (Santali). 



Habitat: — Behar, Central India, from Jubbulpore to Chutia 

 Nagpur. 



An underwood or small shrub, 2-6ft. Branches many, devari- 

 cate, often zigzag, quadrangular, glabrous, tips more or less 

 hairy. Leaves variable, very often unequal, in the same pair, 

 minutely hairy beneath. Spikes linear oblong, closely velvety, 

 mostly terminal, solitary, 3f by Jin , quasiped uncled. 

 Bracts soft, membranous, broader than long, i--|in.', very 

 obtuse, apex often recurved in fruit, persistent, with aromatic 

 glandular hair. Calyx divided nearly to the base, velvety, 

 i-fin., unequal, linear obtuse. Corolla bluish-purple, lin., 

 curved, very slightly hairy, narrow, cylindric base very much 

 shorter than the ventric part, limb slightly 2-lipped. Stamens 

 and pistil very nearly glabrous. Capsule fin., glabrous, 4-seeded. 

 Seeds scarcely j^in., thin, orbicular, elastically white — hairy; 

 areoles very small. 



