1068 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Anhydrous spinach contained, as the mean of three analyses of different 

 samples,— 



Mtrogen ... ... ... ... ... 4*94 



Carbohydrates ... ... .,. ... 3793 



1046. Kochia indica, Wight, H.F.B.I., V. 11. 



Syn. : — Panderia pilosa, H. /. and T. 

 Vern : — Kaura ro, bui (Pb). 



Habitat : — North- West India, from Delhi to the Indus com- 

 mon. Dekkan ; salt soils at Coimbatore. 



An annual herb, erect and softly villous, diffusely branched 

 from the base. Branch lets divaricate, long. Leaves small, 

 elliptic or linear-oblong, acute. Wings of fruiting perianth 

 short, broadly triangular-ovate, obtuse, thick, nerveless, much 

 shorter than the diameter of the disk. Wight states that 

 flowers are sometimes male only, and I think it probable that 

 fertile males are on different plants from the female or her- 

 maphrodite. (J. D. Hooker.) 



Use : — The plant is employed medicinally in the Punjab 

 (Stewart). Used as a vascular (cardiac) stimulant in cases of 

 weak and irregular heart, especially when following on fevers, 

 (Dr Perry, in Watt's Die.) 



1047. Salicornia brachiata, lioxb., h.f.bj., v. 

 12. Roxb. 28. 



Vern, : — Oomarie Keeray (Tarn.) ; Koyalu (Tel.). 



Habitat: — Bengal, in salt marshes; and Tanjore. 



A semi-shrubby, leafless, fleshy-jointed, seacoast marshy 

 plant. Stem woody, 12-18in., thick at the base, much branched, 

 more or less erect, very much branched. Branches 1-iin. diam. 

 Joints i-iin., rather slender, slightly dilated and 2-toothed at 

 top. Spikes 2-3in., slender, cylindrical. Flowers 3-nate. Sta- 

 men 1. Utricle ovoid, subacute, style distinct. Seed pale-brown, 

 hispid, with white hair. Testa thinly coriaceous. Embryo 

 hooked, both ends pointing downward. 



Use : — This is one of the numerous sources of the alkaline 

 earth, sajji, used in medicine and in the arts. (Watt.) 



