N. 0. AROIDEiE. 1329 



N. 0. TYPHACEJE. 



1305. Typha elephantina, Roxb. h.f.b.i., VI., 

 489 ; Roxb. 648. 



Syn : — Typha angustifolia, Linn. 



Sans : — Eraka. 



Vern :— Pater Ramabana, (H.) ; Hogla (B.) ; Bora (Kumaon) ; 

 Kundar, dib, dab, pitz, yira, boj, lukh, patira gond, pan, 

 bori (Pb.); Pitz, yira (Kash.) ; Pun, pollen = bur, buri (Sind) ; 

 Rambana (Mar.) ; Ghabajarin (Guz.) ; Jammu gaddi, emiga- 

 junum (Tel). 



Habitat : — Marshes from N.-W. India to Assam and 

 southward, very common in Bombay marshes along the B. B. & 

 C. T. Railway, between Mahim and Dadar. Tn the Thana District 

 abundant at Bhiwandi and in Banganga River on the way to 

 Chinchan Tarapur. ( K. R. Kirtikar.) 



Annual marsh herbs. Stems 6- 12ft. Leaves erect 

 spongy, 1-1 Jin. broad, trigonous above the sheath, margins 

 often undulate above the middle. Flowers bracteolate. Male 

 spike 8-12in. rachis clothed with short, often forked hairs, 

 bracts 3 or more, anthers, 1-5, join. long. Pollen 4-globate. 

 Female spike much shorter 6-10 by J-lin. diam. Flowers 

 mixed with clarate pistillodes, bracteoles with fasciate tips 

 much longer than the hairs, which are shorter than the stigmas. 

 Stigmas lanceolate (J. D. H.) 



Uses :--The down of the ripe fruit is used as an application 

 to wounds and ulcers, which acts in the same way as the 

 medicated cotton wool. 



" The root-stock, which abounds in starch is somewhat 

 astringent and diuretic, and is employed in Eastern Asia in 

 dysentery, gonorrhoea and measles." (Mr. Maiden in Ph. J., 1st 

 Sep., 1888, p. 180.) 



N. 0. AROIDE.E. 



1306. Cryptocoryne spiralis, Fisch. h.f.b.i., vi. 

 494. 



Syn. : — Ambrosinia spiralis, Roxb, 623, 

 X67 



