1160 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Uses :• -The ashes of the root are given to children for cough. 

 The leaves are considered depurative. The seeds are used as 

 purgative. (Stewart.) Its value in leprosy is asserted. (Drury.) 

 The Santals mix the root with that of Carissa Carandas for 

 blistering purposes. (Revd. A. Campbell.) 



1152. Acalypha fruticosa, Forsh., h.f.b.l, v. 

 415. 



Syn. r—Acalypha betulina, Retz. ; A. amentacea, Box 1 ). 686. 



Vern. : — Ohunm maram (Tarn.) ; Chinni ; Tsiuni (Tel.); 

 Chinni-ka-jhar (Dec). 



Habitat :— Deccan Peninsula. 



A low shrub, more or less covered with yellow, waxy glands, 

 strong smelling or foetid when bruised, very much-branched ; 

 branches slender, virgate, spreading or ascending, glabrous; 

 young parts scurfily pubescent. Leaves alternate, numerous, 

 but rather distant, f-2in., oblong or rhomboid-ovate, acute at 

 base, shortly acuminate, coarsely or finely crenate-serrate, 

 glabrous, with small punctiform, orange, scattered glands 

 beneath. Petiole |-l£in., slender. Stipules minute, persistent. 

 Flowers minute, sessile, on strict pedicels in clusters, crowded 

 on short axillary spikes ; male very numerous, with minute 

 bracts. Stamens 8. Female 2 or 3 at base of spikes, each with 

 toothed bracts ; styles 3, split into many filiform segments. 

 Capsule with 3 rounded lobes, densely pubescent ; seeds smooth. 

 (Trimen). 



Uses : —Leaves attenuant and alterative and an agreeable 

 stomachic in dyspepsia and other ailments. The dose of the 

 infusion of the leaves as ordered by the Vaidyas in Southern 

 Inida is half a teacupful twice in the day. (Ainslie.) 



1153. A. indica, Linn., h.f.b.l, v. 416 Roxb., 

 685. 



Syn. : — A. spicata, Forsk. ; A. ciliata and A. canescens. 



Vern. : — Kuppi, khokali (H.) ; Khokli, khajoti (Mar.) ; 

 Vanchhi kanto (Guj.) ; Muktajuri, shet basanta, murkanta 

 (Beng.); Indra-maris (Uriya) ; Kuppaimeni (Tarn.); Kuppai- 

 chettu, murkanda-chettu, (Tel.) ; Chalmari, kuppi (Kanara). 



