1046 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Vern. :— Chota-pal-kiisa (H. and B.); Thurduri baji (Dec.) ; 

 Taraba (Bomb.); . Tumbai-chedi, Thombay-keerary (Tarn.); 

 Tumma-chettu, Tummi-kura (Tel.). 



Habitat: — Plains of India, from Sikkim and Behar to the 

 Punjab, and southward to Cape Comorin. 



An erect or diffuse annual, very variable. Stem stout hispid 

 or scabrid, erect, usually much diffusely branched from below. 

 Branches 4-6 in., rather leafy, sometimes taller, with erect branches 

 and larger leaves fin. broad. Leavesl-3in. Inner or oblong, 

 obtuse entire or crenate. Whorls large terminal and axillary, 

 often lin. diam., very dense-fid and hispid. Bracts long, linear 

 and filiform. Calyx variable, but with always the upper lip 

 produced and with short triangular teeth, i-fin, tubular 

 curved, smooth below, green and ribbed and scabrid above, 

 contracted above the nutlets, mouth small, glabrous, very oblique, 

 shortly irregularly toothed. Corolla small. The whole plant 

 is fragrant and used as a potherb. 



Use : — The juice of the leaves, according to Dr. J. Shortt, 

 is applied successfully in psoriasis and other chronic skin 

 eruptions. (Ph. Ind.). The leaves are said to be useful in 

 chronic rheumatism (Dr, Meadows, in Watt's Dictionary.) 



1019. L. linifolia, Spreng., h.f.b.i., iv. 690. 



Syn. : — Phlomis zeylanica, Roxb. 461. 



Sans. : — Dronapushpi, Rudrapushpa. 



Vern.: — Hulkussa (B. and H.) ; Poo-alla-toomi (Tel.); 

 Tumbai (Tam). Tumbe, Karjali-gida (Kan.); Tumpa (Mai.); Dron 

 (Assam) ; Gumi, Kumbha (Gond.) ; Goma (Deccan.) 



Habitat : —Plains of India, from Assam, Bengal and Sylhet 

 to Singapore. In the Deccan, from the Concan to Travan- 

 core. 



An annual erect, smooth or scaberulous herb. Stem 2-3ft., 

 usually stout and much-branched above. Leaves 2-4 in., linear 

 or linear-lanceolate, obtuse entire or subserrate, rarely fin. 

 broad. Petiole 0-f in. Whorls axillary and terminal towards the 

 ends of the branches, i-fin. diam. ; bracts few short, setaceous. 



