1048 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



1021. Erernostachys Vicaryi, Benth., h.f.b.l, iv. 

 695. 



Vern : — Gurgurma ; Khalatra ; Rewand chini (Pb.). 



Habitat :— Western Punjab, Peshawar, Salt Range, and 

 Jhelum. 



Erect herbs, stems 3-5ft, very stout, simple or branched. 

 Leaves radical, 12-18in., ovate, pinnatisect; segments or pinnules 

 sessile-glabrous, lower floral sessile oblong, lobulate, petiole 

 strong, base woolly. Spikes 8-lOim, rachis very stout. Whorls 

 many-fid, at length distant. Calyx, fin., campanulate, scurfily 

 tomentose, mouth truncate, shortly 5-crenate, crenatures 

 apiculate ; galea of Corolla, says J. D. Hooker, villous and 

 fringed with white hairs. 



Use : — The seeds are given as a cooling medicine. (Stewart). 



1022. Ajuga bracteosa, Wall, h.f.b.i., iv. 702. 



Vern.:— Kauri biiti (Jhelum); Karku, nilkanthi (Sutlej); 

 Khurbani (Trans-Indus). The bazar names are Jan-i-adam, 

 mukund babri, nilkanthi. Mr Baden-Powell gives jan-i-adam 

 as the vernacular of Ajuga reptans, a European species, and 

 Stewart further gives that name to Salvia lanata. 



Habitat : — Western Himalaya, from Kashmir to Nepal, and 

 in the plains near them from Oudh to Peshawar. 



Softly hairy herbs. Stems erect or ascending, many from 

 the rootstock, branching usually diffusely from the base, 4-1 2in., 

 simple or divided, usually stout, leafy, softly pubescent, villous 

 or glabrate, rarely substrigose or hispid. Branches terete or as- 

 cending. Leaves l-4in. ; lower petioled, upper sessile, sinuate- 

 toothed or nearly entire, oblanceolate or sub-spathulate, whorls 

 axillary and crowded in spikes, much shorter than the leafy 

 ovate or cuneate-obovate, entire or toothed bracts. Calyx |-in. 

 villous ; Calyx-teeth ovate-lanceolate. Corolla pale blue or lilac, 

 pubescent ; tube rarely twice as long as the Calyx ; upper lip 

 erect, 2-fid ; side lobes or lower oblong, midlobe dilated, vari- 

 able in length, stamens protruding from the upper lip. Nutlets 

 Toin., ellipsoid, deeply rugosely fitted. 



Uses : —Jan-i-adam is described as a bitter astringent, nearly 



