ti. O. LA11IAT.K. 1083 



Use. — The root is given in cough, and the seeds are used 

 as an emetic. The leaves are a medicine for guinea-worm and 

 itch, and in the form of poultice applied to wounds. At Lahore, 

 the seeds are given in colic and dysentery, and are applied to 

 boils (Stewart^. The seeds are given for hemorrhoids (Bellew). 



999. S. lanata, Roxb., h.f.b.l, iv. 654. 



Habitat : — Western Himalaya, at altitudes from 5,000 to 8,000 

 feet, 



Robust erect herbs, softly densely wooly, white tomentose. 

 Stems usually many from the root ; 1-1 j-ffc. simple or branched. 

 Leaves mostly radical, sessile oblong-lanceolate 3-6 by |-l£in. 

 toothed ; upper surface tomentose or nearly glabrous, closely 

 wrinkled ; lower tomentose. Flowers fin. long, blue-grey in 

 distant whorls; bracts viscidly hairy, large orbicular ; abruptly 

 pointed. Calyx viscidly hairy, bell-shaped ; teeth spinous : upper 

 lip 3-toothed. Corolla-tube not longer than the Calyx ; upper lip 

 long, curved, flattened concave (Collett). Nutlets ioin., brown 

 (J. D. Hooker). 



Use : — According to Stewart, this species is often confused 

 with S. Moorcroftiana. It may be used separately, or as an 

 adulterant. 



1000. S. plebeia, Br., h.f.b.l, iv. 655. 



Syn. — S. brachiata, Roxb., 49. 



Vern. — Sathi, satnundarsok (Pb.) ; Kinro (Sind.) ; Koka- 

 buradi, bhu-tulsi (B ). The seeds called Kammar-kas (BombA 



Habitat. — Throughout India, in the plains, and ascending 

 the hills to 5,000 feet. 



An annual roughly pubescent herb. Stem stout erect hoary 

 or scaberulous, 6-18in. ; fastigiately branched. Inflorescence 

 glandular. Leaves petioled, oblong obtuse, or upper ovate acute 

 crenate ; l-3in., narrowed at both ends ; floral small lanceolate. 

 Spikes panicled, often fastigiate. Flowers hardly ^in. long, 

 lilac or nearly white, in small whorls in numerous slender 

 panicled racemes ; bracts small, lower leaf-like, upper lanceo- 

 late (Collett). Whorls very numerous. Calyx pedicelled -J-in., 

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