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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Flowers pendulous, cylindric, 2in. long, in a large terminal 
panicle. Calyx tubular, inflated, green, tinged with red and 
spotted with white, 4-toothed. Corolla tubular twice as long as 
the Calyx ; tube cylindric, green, lobes 4, tinged with red, acute, 
spreading. Stamens 8, in 2 series, inserted about the middle 
of the Corolla-tube. Carpels 4. Follicles 4, many-seeded, 
enclosed within the dry persistent Calyx and Corolla. (Collett). 
Sutlej Valley ; Simla ; throughout India. An introduced 
plant, spread throughout all tropical regions. Often much 
cultivated in gardens in Bombay and in the Dekkan. In Ceylon, 
says Trimen, it is a common plant on bare rocky places through- 
out the low and lower montane country. Believed to be a 
native of Tropical Africa. 
Use : — The leaves slightly toasted are used by the natives 
as an application to wounds, bruises, boils, and bites of veno- 
mous insects. In the Concan the juice of the leaves is admi- 
nistered in \ to J tola doses, with double the quantity of ghi ; 
in dysentery. I have seen decidedly beneficial effects follow 
their application to contused wounds, swellings, and discolor- 
ations were prevented, and union of the cut parts took place 
much more rapidly than it does with the ordinary treatment 
by water dressing (Dymock). 
Used in the form of poultice and powder for sloughing 
ulcers, it is a disinfectant (Surg. Barren, in Watt’s Dictionary, 
Vol. I.) 
483 . Ka/anchoe spathulata, T)C., h.f.b.i.,ii. 414 . 
Syn. : — K. Varians, Wall. 
Vera. : — Tatara, rungru, haiza-ka-patta (Pb. and H.l ; Hatho 
Kane (Nepial) ; Patkuari, bakal patta -Kumaon). 
Habitat : — Tropical Himalaya, from Bhotan to Kashmir. 
An erect, stout, perennial herb. Stems 4ft. high. Leaves 
glabrous, spathulate-oblong, crenate, upper distant and becom- 
ing very narrow, sometimes 3-foliate, with the petiole often 3-4 
by Jin., frequently sessile ; lower commonly 3-4, sometimes 
10in., long, besides the petiole. Lowest bracts linear, Darrow 
