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Uses :— According to Rheede, the whole of the plant, macer- 

 ated id an infusion of rice, is said to be a useful remedy in 

 poisonous snake-bites. Dr. Sakharam Arjun, in his' List of 

 Bombay Drugs, says that this plant is supposed to have the 

 properties of Fumaria parviflora and is used in its stead, but 

 has not the bitterness of that plant. 



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943. Lantana indica, Roxb., h.f.b.i. iv., 562. 

 Roxb. 488. 



Vern. :— Ghaneri ; Papar-dani (Ajmer). 



Habitat: — Roxburgh writes: — " A native of Mysore, from 

 thence Dr. B. Heyne sent the seed to the Botanic garden at 

 Calcutta, where the plants thrive luxuriantly, and blossom 

 during the rains." 



It is common throughout India and Ceylon in the warmer 

 parts ; on the river banks of Bengal one of the commonest 

 weeds. 



A shrub, 3-8 ft. high ; branches roughly hairy, long and 

 straggling, 4 angular, sometimes prickly, yellowish brown. 

 Leaves H-2£ in. long, opposite or in whorls of 3, ovate, acute 

 or subobtuse, crenate-serrate, rugose and finely pubesent on 

 upper suface, softly white-pubescent or subvillous beneath, 

 narrowed or somewhat rounded at the base, petioles J-f in. long. 

 Flowers inodorous, sessile, arranged in axillary peduncles heads 

 or spikes J-f in, long and elongating in fruit ; peduncles 1-3J 

 in., usually in opposite axils, 4-angled, thickening upwards ; 

 bracts up to f in. long, ovate, acuminate, softly hairy on both 

 sides. Calyx is in. long, truncate, membranous, densely hairy. 

 Corolla with a pale purplish limb £ in. across, hairy outside ; 

 tube J in. long, yellowish ; lobes 4, rounded. Filaments very 

 short. Ovary glabrous. Drupe purple when ripe, enclosed 

 in the thin transparent calyx (Duthie). 



Uses : — Mr. Duthie (Flora of the Upper Gangetic Plain, Vol. II. 

 p. 216) writes :— "The leaves are regarded by the natives as a 

 cure for snake-bite." 



Indraji, in his valuable book ' Vanaspati Shastra" speaks 



