N. 0. EUPHORBIACE/K 1159 



Habitat : — The Punjab, Salt Range, Sindh and the Deccan. 



An annual, prostrate herb. The whole plant softly clothed 

 with stellate tomen turn. Root stout. Branches 6-10in. Leaves 

 thick, softly tomentose on both surfaces, l£-2*in. long, from 

 ovate and sinuate-toothed or entire to rounded and obtusely- 

 lobed. Petiole often Sin Racemes short, lengthening in fruit. 

 Male flowers numerous ; calyx globose, segments 5, valvate ; 

 petals 5 ; disk obscure ; stamens 5-20. Female flowers : — pedicels 

 at length decurved and sometimes 3in. long in fruit ; calyx and 

 petals of the male. Ovary and capsule stellately tomentose and 

 clothed with silvery scales; capsule |-in. diam. (J. D. Hooker.) 



Uses: — Lindley mentions it as possessing emetic, drastic 

 and corrosive properties. 



Dr. J. Hornsey Casson, Physician to Her Majesty's Legation 

 in Persia, called the attention of the Director of Kew gardens to 

 this plant which caused the death of 6 persons with symptoms 

 of severe jaundice, abdominal pain, bilious vomitting, dilatation 

 of pupil, bleeding from the nose, bloody urine tinged with 

 bile and stupor. (Ph. J. Dec. 28, 1889, p. 504.) 



1151. 0. plicata, Muell., Arg., h.f.b.l, v. 409. 



Syn. : — Croton plicatum, Willd, Roxb. 687. 



Vern. : — Shahdevi, subali, sonballi (H. and Sind) ; Okharada 

 (Guz.) ; Khudiokra (B.) ; Pango nari (Santal) ; Put kanda, 

 nilkhanti, nil-ak-rai (Pb.) ; Gurugu chettu, linga miriyam 



(Tel.). 



Habitat : — Throughout India, from the Punjab to Travancore 

 and from Bengal to Pegu and Burma. 



An erect hoaiy annual herb up to 2ft. high, with a long 

 straight slender tap-root. Stem usually naked below, sparing^ 

 branched above. Leaves 2-4 in. long, ovate to orbicular, often 

 obscurely 3-lobed, thick, rugose, paie-green, stellate-hairy on 

 both surfaces ; petioles l-2in. long. Male flowers : — Calyx |-in. 

 long. Petals smaller, very thin, ovate-lanceolate. Stamens 15, 

 in two whorls. Fern, flowers : — Sepals i^in. long, triangular. 

 Petals shorter and narrower. Capsules fin. in diam., densely 

 stellate-hairy, but without silvery scales. (Duthie). 



