1300 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Stem 6-12ft. long, tapering, hollow. Leaves 12-18in. long, 

 broadly ovate-cordate. Flowers 5-7in. diam., drooping, frag- 

 rant ; buds linear-oblong, 3-4in. long. Anthers Jin. long, 

 versatile, yellow. Capsule 3in. ; septa feathered. (Kanjilal). 



Uses : — Tbe leaves are employed as an external cooling 

 application to alleviate the pains of wounds and bruises. 



1286. L. Wallichianum, Schultes fil. y h.f.b.l, 

 vi., 349. 



Vern. :— Findora (H.). 



Habitat: — Western Himalaya, Nepal and Kumaon. 



Bulbous herbs ; stems leafy, erect, unbranched. Bulbs of 

 narrow, fleshy, imbricating scales, without any other coats, small, 

 on a creeping root- stock; scales many, short, ovate, acuminate. 

 Stem 3-6ft. ; base ascending, few-fid. Leaves sessile, 6-12 by 

 J-fin., lanceolate, narrowly linear, nerves 3-5 faint. Flowers 

 sub-solitary, horizontal, sweet-scented, white or greenish-white ; 

 pedicel long ; perianth 6-10in., narrowly tubular below, then 

 infundibular, with the upper third curved ; tube greenish out- 

 side ; segments sub-equal, oblanceolate, 2in. broad. Stamens 

 not diverging, much shorter than the perianth ; anthers lin., 

 orange-yellow. Style recurved at the top ; stigma conoidal, 

 capitate, obscurely 3-lobed. Capsule lj-2in. 



Uses : — The dried bulb scales possess demulcent properties 

 and are used like salep in pectoral complaints. (Atkinson.) 



1287. Colchicam luteum, Baker, h.f.b.l, vi., 356. 



Sans. :— -Hiranya tutha. (Golden collyrium). 



Vern. : — Hiran tutiya (H.). 



Habitat :— Western Temperate Himalaya ; Kashmir ; Chamba. 



Oorm gibbously ovoid, coats dark-brown. Leaves few, 

 appearing with the flowers, linear, oblong or oblanceolate, 

 obtuse, lorate, short at the flowering time, at fruiting 6-12 by 

 !4in. ; lip rounded. Flowers 1-2 (in spring), 1-lJin. diam., 

 when expanded golden-yellow. Tube 3-4in. ; segments oblong 

 or oblanceolate, obtuse, many nerved. Stamens shorter than 

 the perianth ; filaments very much shorter than the long, 



