982 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Among the Santals the root is given as a medicine in fevers 

 (Revd. A. Campbell). 



IS.B. — In Bombay, the above two species are sometimes employed by the 

 shopkeepers to adulterate Fumitory (Fumaria officinalis) ; hence they are 

 also called pifcpapra there (K. R. K.). 



941. Dicliptera Roxburghiana, Nees., h.f.b.i., 

 iv. 553. 



Vern. : — Kirch, Semni, Lakshmana (Pb.) ; Bouna (Simla). 



Habitat : — Frequent in the plains of N. India, from the 

 Punjab to Assam, Silhet and E. Bengal, Bhotan. 



Diffuse herbs. Stems l-3ft, elongate, very nearly glabrate. 

 Leaves 2£ by lin., base cuneate, elliptic, acute, obscurely 

 pubescent or glabrate. Petiole Jin. Flowers in clusters, axillary 

 and terminal, sessile, more rarely shortly ped uncled. Bracts 

 nearly J by Jin., often 3-nerved, ciliate, thinly pubescent, 

 cuneate-elliptic obovate, apiculate, not acuminate. Corolla Jin. 

 Capsule Jin., clavate, puberulous or glabrous. Seeds conspicu- 

 ously verrucose. 



Use : — According to Stewart, the plant is used medicinally 

 in the Punjab. 



It is said to be a useful tonic (Watt). 



942. Pevistvophe bicalyculata, Nees., h.f.b.i., 

 iv. 554. 



Syn. : — Justicia bicalyculata, Vahl., Roxb 42. 



Vern. : — Nasa bhaga (B.) ; Barge khode baha (Santal.) ; Kali- 

 andi jahria (Merwara) ; Ghatpitta-papada (Mahr.) ; Atreelal 

 (Hind.) ; Nazpat (Sind.) ; Chebira (Tel.). 



Habitat : — Tropical and Subtropical India, from the Punjab 

 and Sind to Assam and Madras. 



Erect spreading herbs, thinly patently hairy. Leaves 2 by 

 lin., ovate, acuminate. Petiole Jin. Each pair of bracts long- 

 petioled. Bracts f by 2oin., unequal, linear or linear-spathulate, 

 acute mucronate. Panicles lax, divaricate. Corolla f-Jin. Anther 

 cells ovoid, remote, ovoid, not linear, which latter is the charac- 

 teristic of the other species of genus Peristrophe Capsule i-Jin. 

 Seeds minutely glandular, papillose. 



