1126 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



An animal herb, quite glabrous or sparsely hairy. Stems 

 very many, prostrate and spreading from the root ; leafy, very 

 slender, and much distichously branched, spreading in a whorl 

 from the root, 4-10in. long, whitish brittle. Leaves always 

 small, opposite, i-Jin., very short, obliquely-oblong, rounded- 

 oblong or sub-quadrate, coriaceous, opaque, sometimes as broad 

 as long, spreading at right angles ; if toothed, only at the broad 

 end ; nerveless. Stipules minute, triangular, 2-partite or laci- 

 niately toothed. Involucres numerous from the base to the 

 tip of the stems and branches, minute, campanulate, very 

 shortly pedicelled. Bracts at the base of the pedicels, subulate ; 

 lobes triangular, acute, nearly entire ; glands very shortly sti- 

 pitate. Style very short. Capsule shortly pedicelled, iVin. 

 diam. Cocci obtusely keeled, glabrous. Seeds smooth, bluish, 

 when wet mucous. 



Use: — In Chutia Nagpur, a preparation of this plant, along 

 with that of Cryptolepis Buchanani is given to nursing mothers 

 when the supply of milk fails or is deficient (Revd. A. 

 Campbell). 



1116. E. tirucalli, Linn., h.f.b.i., v. 254 ; Roxb. 

 390. 



Sans. : — Ganderi, trikantaka, vajradruma, dandasinha. 



Vern. : — Sehnd, thohar, sehunr (H.) ; Lanka si j, latadaona 

 (B.) ; Siju (Sant.); Seju, ksharis/ju, lanka (Uriya) ; Thora, Thur 

 (Sind.) Niwal nivali shera, seyr, teg, vajraduhu (Mar.); Thor- 

 dandalio (Guz.) ; Tirukali, kalli, kombu-kalli (Tarn.) ; Jemudu, 

 kalli (Tel.); Kodukalli, mondugalli (Kan.) ; Tirukalli ; kateruma 

 (Mai.). 



Habitat :■ — A native of Africa, naturalized in Bengal, the 

 Konkan and the Deccan, as also in Sindh. Thrives very well at 

 Karachi. 



A large, unarmed, milky shrub or small tree, 10-20 ft. Bark 

 brown or greenish-brown. Wood white or grey, moderately 

 hard. Trunk 6-10in. diam., green, cylindric, densely branched 

 above. Branches terete, smooth, green, jointed, slender like 

 stout rushes, becoming as thick as the little finger. Leaves 



