PLANTAGO OVATA. 



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Atar or antar = the rows ; also called mdndha in Doab and murk or Mat in the 

 Eastern districts. 



Pah or pair a are the intervening passages. 

 Tatti = the walls. 

 Manro is the roof. 

 Bel = the seedlings. 



Peri is the name given to the second crop from the same roots. 

 Kaunri = packet of 50 leaves. 

 Dholi means a packet of 200 leaves. 

 A leso contains 60 dholi. 

 Bira ~\ 



Biri > = the leaf rolled for chewing. 

 Gilauri J 



PLANTAGO OVATA, Forsh* 



[Fide Plate XCII.] 



Isabghol, isafghol (Hind.) ; ispaghul (Pers.) ; bazr-katuma (Arab.). 



Natural order Plantaginece. An almost stemless and more or less villous annual, with linear 

 or filiform leaves. Flowers in cylindrical or ovoid spikes. 



This plant is found wild in the Punjab and in Sindh. It is occasionally cultivated 

 in gardens for its seeds which are cooling and demulcent, and are useful in diarrhoea and 

 dysentery. Dr. Dymock says that the crushed seeds made into a poultice with vinegar 

 and oil are applied to rheumatic and gouty swellings, and that with the mucilage a cool- 

 ing lotion for the head is made. The seeds of Plantago amplexicaulis and ciliata are 

 sometimes used as substitutes. 



* References :— Fl. Br. Ind., IV., 707 •, Boiss.. Fl. Or. IV., 885. P. Ispaghul, Roxb., FI. Ind. (Clarke's Ed.) 135 ; 

 Fleming, in As. Kes., XL, 174 ; Uoyle III., 312 ; Bent, and Trim., Med. PL, 211 ; Stewart, Punj. PL, 174 ; Dymock, Veg. 

 Mat. Med., 648. 



