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INDIAN MED10INAL PLANTS. 
Use:— Its stem and leaves appear to be officinal under the 
above name (Stewart). Pods used as a vegetable among the 
Hindus. 
350. Indiqofera linifolia, Retz., h.f.b.i., ii. 
92, Roxb. 582. 
Vern.: — Torki (H.) ; Bhangra ;B.); Taudikhode-baha 
(Santal) ; Burburra, pandharipale, bhangra, torki (Bomb.). 
Habitat -From the Himalayas throughout India. 
An annual ; the whole plant persistently silvery, hoary. 
Stems slender, copiously branched, both at base and upward, 
£-lft. Leaves simple, sub-sessile, J-lin. long, typically linear, 
acute, but varying to obovate, obtuse, with a mucro. Stipules 
minute, setaceous. Flowers 6-12 ; in copious, dense, sub-sessile 
Racemes. Calyx gg in., silvery ; teeth long, linear-setaceous. 
Corolla bright red, 2-3-times the Calyx. Pod hard, mucronate 
silvery under, jg in. thick. 
Use : — It is given medicinally in febrile eruptions (Honnig- 
berger). 
The Santals use the plant in amenorrhoea along with Eu- 
phorbia thymifolia (Revd. A. Campbell). 
351. I. glandulosa, Willd. h.f.b.i., ii., 94, 
Roxb. 583. 
Vern. : — Vekbariyo (Guj.) ; Barbed (Sholapur) ; Gavacha 
matmaudi (Bomb.) ; Vekbariyo, baragadam, barapatalu, boomi- 
dapu, barapatam (Tel.). 
Habitat : — Plains of the Western Peninsula and Bundel- 
khand. 
An annual, with elongated, slender branches, clothed when 
young with spreading hairs not at all argenteo-canescent. 
Leaves distinctly petioled, always 3-foliate. Stipules setaceous, 
minute ; petiole nearly as long as the leaflets. Leaflets oblan- 
ceolate, membranous, J-l in. long, green above ; hairs adpressed, 
obscure, pale glaucous, with copious distinct black dots below. 
Heads i-fin. long, sessile. Corolla 3-4 times the Calyx. Caylx 
i^jin., pubescent ; teeth long, setaceous. -Pod brown, finely 
