N. o. labut.t:. 1021 



of re-appearing in Manipur while it nowhere occurs in the 



vast expanse of the tableland of India that lies between the 

 Deccan and Manipur." 



An erect herb, softly villous, with spreading hairs. Stem 

 4-angled. Leaves sometimes 9 inches long, membranous, long- 

 petioled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, sinuate or cut and toothed 

 or crenate, base narrowly cuneate. Whorls dense- fid globose, 

 secund, continuous or separate, in long peduncled hirsute spikes 

 sometimes 9in. long. Bracts narrow, falcate, equalling the 

 Calyx, ciliate. Calyx Jin. long, tubular, teeth long, subulate, 

 ciliate. Corolla white, with purple upper lip (probably a form 

 of P. arviflora (J. D. Hooker). 



Use. — Used like P. parviflorus. It seems more likely than 

 either P. plectranthoides or P. parviflorus to be used medicinal- 

 ly (Watt). 



979. P. parviflorus, Benth., h.f.b.i., iv. 632. 



Vern. : — Phangla, pangla (Bomb.). 



Habitat : — Subtropical Himalaya, from Kumaon to Bhotan. 

 Assam, Khasia Hills, and Silhet, Chittagong. West Deccan 

 Peninsula, from the Concan to the Anamallay. 



An annual herb, stout erect, branched, glabrous pubescent 

 or scaberulous. Leaves long-petioled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 singly or doubly crenate-toothed or serrate, base cuneate. 

 Whorls dense-fid, subglobose in dense cylindric or one-sided 

 softly hairy spikes. Bracts elliptic ovate, exceeding the hirsute 

 calyx. Calyx ^in. long narrow, usually purplish. Calyx- teeth 

 short, triangular-lanceolate, ciliate. The stem and branches are 

 usually dark-purple, but not constantly. 



Uses : — The fresh leaves, when bruised, are applied as a cata- 

 plasm in order to clean wounds and promote healthy granula- 

 tion. The roots are reputed to be a remedy for the bite of the 

 Phursa snake (Echis Garinata) (Dymock). In Satara, the juice 

 of the leaves is given in colic and fever (B. D. Basu). 



Surg.-Maj. J. Parker, Med. Store-keeper to Gov., Bombay, 

 in his letter dated 21st April 1890, to the Sec, Indigen. Drugs 

 Com., Calcutta wrote : — 



The root juice is used internally and externally in snake-bite (Phursa), but 

 the plant is said to be efficacious in the fresh state only. It would be well to 



