1128 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



into a very short petiole, cuneate or oblanceolate, usually acute 

 or mucronate. Involucres yellowish, in small, compact, shortly 

 pedunculate, dichotomous cymes from the sinus between the 

 nodes ; lobes large, erect, roundish, cordate, fimbriate. Styles 

 connate, high up, undivided ; stigmas capitate. Capsule about 

 i'm. broad, deeply 3-lobed. Cocci compressed, glabrous. 



Uses :— The root enjoys repute as a remedy in snake bites, 

 but there is no reliable evidence of its utility in these cases. 

 The expressed juice of the leaves is reported to prove very 

 effectual in relieving the paroxysms of spasmodic asthma. 

 (Ph. Ind.) 



In Hindu medicine, the milky juice is considered purgative 

 and rubefacient. As a purgative it is generally used in com- 

 bination with other medicines which are steeped in it. Chebulic 

 inyrobalan, long pepper, tivrit root, etc., are thus treated and 

 administered as drastic purgatives in ascites, anasarca and 

 tympanites. It enters into the composition of several compound 

 prescriptions of a drastic character (Dutt). " The juice is 

 employed in ear-ache and, mixed with soot, in ophthalmia as an 

 anjan" (T. N. Ghose, in Watt's Die). 



Hemaglutinins (rabbit blood) were found in 26 of 47 Types of Euphorbia 

 examined. The agglutinating action on different bloods (pigeon, rabbit, 

 guinea pig, rat, sheep, goat) differed. The active substance of Euphorbia 

 neriifolia is fairly resistant to boiling. When hemaglutinins are contained 

 in the vegetative parts of the plant they can be absent from the seeds 

 and vice versa. (Ch. Abs. 10th Jan. 1913 p. 104.) 



1118. E. nivulid, Lam., h.f.b.l, v. 255. 



Syn. :— E. neriifolia, Roxb. 392. 



Vern. :— Thohar (H.); Shij (B.) ; Newran (Mar.) ; Ellaculli 

 (Mai.) ; Elakullie (Tam.) ; Akoo-jemoodoo (Tel.) 



Habitat:— N.-W. Himalaya; on dry rocky hills. Guzerat, 

 the Deccan Peninsula and Sindh. 



A large shrub or tree, 20-25ft. Branches in whorls of four, 

 fleshy, nearly cylindric, with vertically or spirally arranged 

 tubercles, each supporting a pair of stipular prickles. Leafless 

 in cold and dry season. Leaves alternate, 6 12in. long, ovate- 

 oblong or linear ; tip rounded ; midrib much elevated beneath ; 



