N. LABIAT.E. 1047 



Calyx pale below, not striate above, toothing variable, sometimes 

 spinescent, i-|in., obovoid, glabrous or puberulous, mouth 

 very oblique, contracted, glabrous within upper lip, projecting, 

 acute 3-toothed, lower 2-fid. 



Use : — The natives of Central India believe that the leaves, 

 when roasted and eaten with salt, have febrifugal properties 

 (Duthie). 



1020. Leonotis nepetcefolia, Br. h.f.b.i., iv. 691. 



Syn. : — Phlomis nepetrefolia, Linn. Roxb. 461. 

 Vern. :— Hejur-chei (FT.); Dare dhompo, jatmm clhompo 

 (Santal) ; Mati-jer, matisul (Guz.). Dipmal, Ekri. (Mar.) ; Rana 

 "bheri, beri, mulu golimidi, hanumanta bira (Tel.). 



Habitat :■— Throughout hotter India, from the Punjab to 

 Travancore. 



A tall, herbaceous annual 4-6ft. Stem as thick as the finger, 

 4-angled with concave faces, puberulous. Leaves 4-8 by 2-5in., 

 membranous ovate, crenate, floral lanceolate, deflected. Bracts 

 spinescent, winged, linear, deflexed. Petiole l-3in. winged 

 above, slender. Whorls distinct, globose, 2-3in. diam., squarrose. 

 Calyx |-lin. ribbed and reticulate, pubescent or villous, 

 tubular incurved ; teeth spinescent, upper lip prominent 

 rigid, i in. long. Lower with three erect spinescent rigid teeth. 

 Throat glabrous. Corolla orange-red, lin. long, tube slender, 

 exserted, villous like the upper lip, lower lip minute. Nutlet 

 linear-oblong, widening upward, truncate. 



Uses : — In Chutia Nagpur, the ash produced by burning the 

 flower-buds is applied to burns and scalds (Revd. A. Camp- 

 bell). In Bombay, the ashes of the flower-heads mixed with 

 curds is applied to ringworm and other itchy diseases of the 

 skin. Dr. A. J. Amadeo states that it is called Rascamono in 

 Porto-Rico, and that a decoction of the leaves is used as a tonic, 

 the juice is also expressed and taken with limejuice and rum as 

 a febrifuge. Dr. Amadeo has used it in combination with 

 Phyllanthus Niruri in intermittents. (Dymock.) 



