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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS 
Flowering stems with few leaves, and 1-6 flowers. Flowers 
5 -l|in. diam. Calyx-tobes deltoid-ovate, acute, silky, spreading 
in fruit. Petals orbicular, yellow, much exceeding the Calyx. 
Carpels sessile on the base of the Calyx, clothed with long, silky 
hairs. Achenes elliposoid, acute at both ends, hairy. Style 
■jin., slender, straight in fruit. 
Use : — The root of this plant, officinal in Kashmere, is one 
of the most valuable of remedies (flonnigberger). Its uses 
are similar to those of G. urbanum. 
470 . Potentilla nepalensis, Hook, h.f.b.i., ii. 355 . 
Vern.: — Rattanjot (Pb.) 
Habitat: — Western temperate Himalaya, from Hurree to 
Kumaon. 
Herbs, with perennial woody root-stock. Heaves long petioled, 
digitalely 5-foliate, or upper 3-foliate. Stems erect, leafy- 
branched, 3-flowered, stout or slender, from densely villous 
to glabrate. Radical leaves 12 by Sin. ; leaflets sessile ; 1-3 by 
4-liiu., membranous, rarely acute, teeth obtuse or acute, base 
entire, cuneate ; obovate or elliptic obovate, green. Petiole 
slender, cauline stipules f-lin., ovate or oblong, lower entire, 
upperlobed. Flowers pedicelled in dichotomous panibles, 
f-lin. diam., petals obcordate, purple. Fruiting pedicels 
sometimes 3in., divaricate. Calyx-lobes acute ; bracteoles 
obtuse. Achenes very numerous, minute, wrinkled on a globose, 
hairy receptacle. 
Use : — The roots are officinal, being considered depurative. 
They are used externally in the Yunani system, the ashes being 
applied with oil to burns (Dr. Stewart). 
471 . P. supina, Linn, h.f.b.i., ii. 359 . 
Syn.: — Comarum flavum, Roxb. 409. 
Habitat : — Throughout the warmer parts of India, from 
Kashmir to Malacca and the Nilghiri Hills. 
Root annual. Stems very numerous from the root. 6-18in., 
hairy, spreading, leafy dichotomously branched, prostrate or 
suberect, stout or slender. Leaves pinnate, i-3in., flaccidly 
