1368 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Stem 6 — 20 ft., erect from a stout rootstocks, f in, diam., 

 spongy within, internodes 6 — 12 in., terete, smooth, uppermost 

 glabrous under the panicle ; 1. 3— 5 ft. by 1 — 2 in. below the 

 middle, tapering thence upwards to a long filiform point, and 

 slightly downwards to the base, coriaceous, smooth, on both 

 surfaces, glaucous beneath, margins spinulose, midrib up to 

 \ in. broad, shining, veins many, very slender, sheaths terete, 

 coriaceous, mouth not auricled, sides bearded, ligule short, 

 lunate, hairy ; panicle 1 — 2 ft., dense-fid., ovoid or oblong, 

 erect, decompound, rhachis stout, glabrous, branches half 

 whorled, spreading in fi. ascending in fr., filiform ; spikes 

 1 — 3 in., rhachis filiform, fragile, internodes £ — \ in., villous, 

 tips obconic ; spikelets to in., clothed with long, soft, creamy 

 or purplish woolly hairs up to J in., long, callus very short ; 

 glume I oblong-ovate, acuminate, dorsally convex, margins 

 incurved, 1-veined in the flexures, II lanceolate, acuminate, 

 1 — 3-veined, margins above the middle and keel ciliate with 

 long hairs, III oblong, hyaline, obtuse, 1-veined, margin above 

 shortly ciliate, IV smaller, lancolate, subaristately acuminate, 

 margins ciliate above, palea quadrate, ciliate ; lodicules irre- 

 gular in shape ; anthers £ G in. (Trimen.) 



Uses : — The root is officinal in the Panjab, under the name of 

 garba ganda. It is burned near women after delivery, and near 

 burns and scalds, its smoke being considered beneficial. (Stewart.) 



1336. Manisuris granularis, Linn., h.f.b.i. vii. 

 159. 



Sans : — Palangini (Ainslie). 



Vern : — Trinpali (H) ; Kangni (A j mere) ; Dhaturoghas 

 (Udaipur) ; Agimali-gadi (Chanda) ; Ratop (Berar). 



Habitat: — Throughout the hotter parts of India. 



Annual, erect, much branched grass. Stems 4-30 in. high, 

 slender, compressed softly hairy, leafy ; nodes hairy. Leaves 

 1 J 8 by J-Jin., linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, flat, hairy 

 on both surfaces or on the lower only with bulbous-based 

 hairs, margins ciliate, base cordate ; sheaths much shorter 



