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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Ghangra (Santa!); Urohi-mahor-pat (Ass.); Chaunro (Sind); 
Caramunny-pyre (Tam.) ; Boberlu, alu-sundi, duntu-pesalu, 
bobra (Tel.) ; Tada-gunny, kursan-pyro, alasandi (Kan. . 
Habitat : — Native, and universally cultivated in the tropical 
zone. 
An annual sub-erect or twining plant, always glabrous or 
nearly so. Stipules J-Jin. long, attached and persistent ; leaf- 
lets membranous, 3-6in. long, acute, very variable in shape, 
broad or narrow-ovate, or ovate-rhomboidal, with the two sides 
below the middle prolonged into obtuse lobes. Peduncles often 
exceeding the leaves, 3-6 flowered ; pedicels very short. Calyx 
glabrous, under Jin. ; teeth lanceolate or deltoid-cuspidate. 
Corolla yellow or reddish, twice the Calyx. Keel not prolonged 
into a beak. Pod in some of the cultivated forms one or even 
2ft. long, under Jin. broad, edible seeds 10-20. 
Use : — Considered hot and dry, diuretic and difficult of 
digestion, and is used to strengthen the stomach (Baden 
Powell). 
392 . Clitoria Ternatea, Linn, h . f . b . i .. ii . 208 , 
Roxb. 566. 
Sans. : — Aparajita, asphota. 
Fern.: — Ivalizer, visnukranti, kava-thenthi (H.) ; Aparajita 
(B.) ; Kajali, gokaran (Bomb.) ; Kakkanam-kodi (Tam.) ; 
Dhanattar (Pb.) ; Garani (Guz.) ; Dintana, tella, mella, tella- 
dintana, nila-dintana (Tel.) ; Vishnu, kantisoppu, kirgunna, 
gokarna-mul (Kan.). 
Habitat : — A common garden flower all over India. 
A climber, with terete, slender downy stems. Stipules, linear, 
petioles J-lin. Leaflets ovate or oblong-obtuse, subcoriaceous, 
l-2in. long. Bracteoles roundish, obtuse, p-Jin. long. Calyx 
J-f in. ; teeth lanceolate, half as long as the tube. Corolla lj-2in. 
Standard lin. broad, bright blue or white with an orange centre. 
Pod 2-4in. long, flattish, the valves not keeled on the face ; 6-10 
seeds. 
Parts used: — The root, seeds, leaves and juice. 
Use : — Sanskrit writers describe the root as laxative and 
diuretic, useful in ascites, fevers, &c. (Dutt). 
