1150 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



A much-branched, small tree. Young shoots glabrous. 

 Wood hard, usually red, smooth, apt to split and warp. Leaves 

 glabrous above, l-3in., sub-sessile, from oblong or lanceolate to 

 orbicular-ovate or-obovate obtuse, acute or acuminate, brown 

 when dry, reticulate and shining on both surfaces, coriaceous ; 

 nerves usually very slender and obscure ; petiole very rarely , 

 12 in. Spikes simple or panicled, slender, pubescent, l-ljin. ; 

 calyx 4-lobed, very minute. Disk glabrous ; stamens 3. Female 

 flowers shortly pedicelled. Stigmas very short, sub-lateral. 

 Fruit iin. diam., gibbously orbicular, turgid. 



Use : — The leaves in decoction are used for snake-bites. 

 (Balfour.) 



1141. Jatropha glandulifera, Roxb., H.F.B.J., 

 v. 382 ; Roxb. 689. 



Sans. : — Nikumba. 



Vern. : — Addalay (Tarn.) ; Dundigapu ; Nela-amida (Tel.) ; 

 Lal-bherenda (B.); Verendi (Kol.); Undar-bibi, jangli-erandi 

 (H.) ; Totla-gida (Kan.). 



Habitat : — Deccan Peninsula, from the Concan southwards. 



N.B.— The legend concerning the first springing up of the plant at 

 PancUrpur mentioned by Dyniock (Pharmacogr. Ind. III. 272) and Cooke (Flora 

 of Bomb. II. 597) is not true (K. R. K.). 



A shrub or small, glaucous-looking, evergreen tree, with 

 much clear yellowish juice ; trunk short, stout, dichotomously- 

 branched, glabrous. Leaves 3-4in. long, and as broad, deeply 

 3-5-lobed ; lobes obovate or elliptic acuminate, or acute at the 

 apex, leafy, cordate at the base, sharply serrate with glandular 

 bristles at the serrature tips ; lateral nerves numerous, slender ; 

 petioles 2-3in. long, not glandular, nor hairy. (K. R. K.). Sti- 

 pules divided into capillary gland, tipped ; segments bracts 

 setose and glaudular. Flowers greenish yellow, (Hooker, but 

 Dymock says "dull red "), glandular, in long peduncled corym- 

 bose cymes. Male flowers greenish-yellow. Calyx |-in. long, 

 glabrous, very deeply divided ; lobes ovate, obtuse. Corolla 

 5-lobed 5 lobes obtuse, iin. ; tube very short. Stamens 8, 

 connate at the base into a column, free above. Disk of 5 glands 



